Musk v. Altman is just getting started
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Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the “nonprofit for the [ ]
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Musk v. Altman is just getting started Theresa Loconsolo 7:00 AM PDT · May 1, 2026 37 min Loading the player var playerInstance_31184701 = jwplayer( "jwppp-video-31184701" ); playerInstance_31184701.setup({ playlist: "https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/wIbIpzK4", })
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