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Elon Musk’s courtroom showdown with Sam Altman started this week. The biggest takeaways so far
Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the stand, accusing OpenAI and its executives of deceiving him into donating money to help found what is now one of the world’s biggest AI companies.

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Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future
Elon Musk tells his side of OpenAI’s beginnings in trial pitting him against CEO Sam Altman
AI may kill us all, we don't want to be in Terminator: Elon Musk at OpenAI trial
Elon Musk brought dramatic warnings about the future of AI into a packed California courtroom this week, saying AI could either become humanity’s greatest tool or its biggest threat.

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Lawyers in OpenAI trial claim that most important role of Shivon Zilis, mother of Elon Musk's four children, is being a covert liaison between OpenAI and Tesla CEO as she …
Musk lays out his souring relationship with OpenAI in a second day of testimony
‘We could all die as a result of AI’: Musk team’s testimony turns dramatic
“We could all die as a result of artificial intelligence,” said Musk’s lawyer to Judge Gonzalez, who, in response, said, “Despite these risks, your client is creating a company that’s in the exact spa...

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The craziest part of Musk v. Altman happened while the jury was out of the room
Inside the Courtroom at the OpenAI Trial

Elon Musk testifies he 'didn't read' OpenAI's for-profit fine print, claims Sam Altman misled him: 'Can't steal a charity'

On Thursday, Elon Musk told a California courtroom that he backed OpenAI with millions of dollars under the belief it would remain a nonprofit focused on humanity. Musk Says OpenAI Abandoned Its Original Nonprofit Mission During cross-examination,

Sam Altman, OpenAI sued in wake of mass school shooting

A San Francisco-based AI tech giant, OpenAI, and its CEO, Sam Altman, were slapped with lawsuits in federal court Wednesday following a school shooting that left six children

Parents sue OpenAI over Canadian school shooting by transgender suspect despite Sam Altman’s apology

Families of victims in a February school shooting in Canada filed lawsuits Wednesday morning alleging that OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, were complicit in the gunman’s planning to carry out the attack that killed eight people.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Teases GPT-5.5 Cyber AI Model Rollout, Could Take On Anthropic’s Claude Mythos

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman teased the successor to the GPT-5.4 Cyber artificial intelligence (AI) model on Thursday. Dubbed GPT-5.5 Cyber, the model was announced just a fortnight afte

Sam Altman falls out of love with universal basic income

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once spent millions to fund a massive study of UBI. In the age of AI, cash payments aren't the best answer.

All the evidence unveiled so far in Musk v. Altman

The Musk v. Altman trial is underway, and that means exhibits, or the evidence to be presented in court, are being revealed piece by piece. So far, email exchanges, photos, and co

Seven lawsuits filed against OpenAI by families of Canada mass-shooting victims

The lawsuits, filed in California, accuse OpenAI and Sam Altman of negligence and abetting a mass shooting by failing to flag the suspect's ChatGPT activity.

Sam Altman's management quirk? DMing 'a few hundred' OpenAI employees every day

Rough napkin math suggests that Altman is sending somewhere around 39,000 messages a year, and that's limited to a five-day workweek.