Overview
- Elon Musk and Sam Altman faced each other in federal court as the judge reprimanded both over hostile posts on X and ordered them to stop commenting on the case.
- The jury will give only an advisory verdict while Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers decides three issues: whether OpenAI broke its nonprofit pledge, gained unjustly, or crossed competition laws through its Microsoft ties.
- Musk seeks to restore OpenAI’s nonprofit status, oust Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, and unwind the Microsoft relationship, and he says any monetary award would go to the OpenAI foundation rather than to him.
- OpenAI argues Musk knew commercialization was necessary as early as 2017 and says the suit aims to slow a rival, while Microsoft’s lawyers say Musk himself pushed a for‑profit path and even tried to fold OpenAI into Tesla.
- Testimony is expected from high‑profile figures such as Satya Nadella, with a remedies phase planned for mid‑May, in a case that could delay an OpenAI IPO and reset power balances across the AI industry.