Overview
- Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is trying liability first with a nine-person advisory jury, leaving any remedies for a later phase she will decide.
- Elon Musk used multi-day testimony to press breach-of-charitable-trust claims and to seek up to $134 billion plus executive removals and a reversal of OpenAI’s for‑profit shift.
- Gonzalez Rogers curtailed Musk’s repeated warnings about “apocalyptic” AI risks, saying AI safety debates fall outside the issues the jury must decide.
- The court will offer an official audio livestream during sessions, letting the public listen online to the high-profile proceedings.
- OpenAI and its leaders deny wrongdoing, and key executives including Sam Altman and Greg Brockman are expected to take the stand as the case moves toward a liability decision later in May.