Elon Musk and Sam Altman Head to Court
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Elon Musk has taken Sam Altman and OpenAI to court over a lawsuit alleging betrayal of OpenAI's original nonprofit mission, with jury selection underway and the trial set to run through late May. Musk claims OpenAI's shift to a for-profit model breaches charitable trust and seeks $150 billion in damages and structural changes, including leadership removal. The case features high-profile witnesses and could reshape OpenAI's future, while Musk's rival AI venture, xAI, is now part of SpaceX. The lawsuit is deeply personal, rooted in Musk's 2018 departure after failed attempts to control OpenAI and merge it with Tesla.
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Welcome back to In the Loop, TIME’s twice-weekly newsletter about AI. We're publishing these editions both as stories on Time.com and as emails. If you're reading this in your browser, why not subscribe to have the next one delivered straight to your inbox?Subscribe to In the LoopWhat to Know: Musk and Altman head to courtJury selection began yesterday for Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman, in a trial that marks the culmination of a bitter, years-long feud between the two men—and could determine the future of OpenAI.Musk alleges that Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, betrayed the founding mission of OpenAI, which the two men co-founded in 2015 as a non-profit organization devoted to developing AI for the benefit of humanity as a whole.On the docket — OpenAI has since restructured into a…
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