
Musk Loses OpenAI Lawsuit - Jury Rejects All Claims
A unanimous jury in Oakland dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman after less than two hours of deliberation, finding all three counts barred by the statute of limitations.
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A unanimous jury in Oakland dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman after less than two hours of deliberation, finding all three counts barred by the statute of limitations.

Sam Altman testified that Elon Musk demanded majority control of OpenAI from the beginning, with an opening ask of 90% equity - a revelation that reframes the entire lawsuit.

A federal trial over OpenAI's shift from nonprofit to for-profit opened in Oakland on April 28, with Musk seeking $134B in damages, Altman's removal, and a full corporate reversal.

Sam Altman's World project launched World ID 4.0 at a San Francisco event on April 17, signing Tinder, Zoom, DocuSign, and Okta as partners while introducing Agent Kit to authorize AI agents.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar confirmed the company will reserve IPO shares for retail buyers, after the firm raised $3B from individuals in its $122B funding round - three times what it set out to raise.

A suspect linked to the Pause AI movement threw a homemade incendiary at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home, then threatened to burn the company's headquarters.

Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz spent 18 months investigating OpenAI's CEO. What they found is hard to dismiss.

OpenAI published a 13-page policy blueprint proposing robot taxes, a public wealth fund for every American, and government-run 4-day workweek pilots as AI reshapes the economy.

The Justice Department is asking the Ninth Circuit to reverse the order that blocked the Pentagon's supply chain risk label on Anthropic and paused Trump's federal ban on Claude.

Three OpenAI executives shift roles simultaneously days after closing a $122 billion round, raising questions about leadership continuity before an expected 2026 IPO.

OpenAI pays low hundreds of millions for TBPN, an 11-person tech talk show with 70,000 daily viewers - placing it under the company's chief political operative ahead of its IPO.

OpenAI is in advanced talks to buy up to 50 gigawatts of fusion energy from Helion, the startup where Sam Altman holds a personal stake worth an estimated $375 million.