{"id":207599,"date":"2026-04-30T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/are-elon-musk-and-openai-fighting-an-ai-arms-race-sam-altmans-lawyers-think-so\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:40:11","slug":"are-elon-musk-and-openai-fighting-an-ai-arms-race-sam-altmans-lawyers-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/are-elon-musk-and-openai-fighting-an-ai-arms-race-sam-altmans-lawyers-think-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Elon Musk and OpenAI Fighting an AI Arms Race? Sam Altman\u2019s Lawyers Think So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/12081916\/are-elon-musk-and-openai-fighting-an-ai-arms-race-sam-altmans-lawyers-think-so\">Are Elon Musk and OpenAI Fighting an AI Arms Race? Sam Altman\u2019s Lawyers Think So<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/12081916\/are-elon-musk-and-openai-fighting-an-ai-arms-race-sam-altmans-lawyers-think-so\">https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/12081916\/are-elon-musk-and-openai-fighting-an-ai-arms-race-sam-altmans-lawyers-think-so<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-30 19:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.kqed.org\">www.kqed.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Altman&#8217;s defense claims Musk tried to wrest control of the company twice: first for majority equity, board control, and CEO position; second by wanting to merge OpenAI with Tesla.<\/li>\n<li>Musk allegedly withheld $5 million quarterly to pressure the company into meeting his demands and left when these attempts failed.<\/li>\n<li>Musk poached key employees from OpenAI, including founding member Andrej Karpathy, to join Tesla.<\/li>\n<li>Despite earlier statements about Tesla not pursuing AGI, Musk indicated Tesla will likely lead in creating AGI in humanoid form and formed xAI in 2023, though claimed it&#8217;s much smaller than OpenAI.<\/li>\n<li>Musk\u2019s testimony often became contentious, particularly during Savitt\u2019s cross-examination, with heated exchanges over the questioning approach.<\/li>\n<li>Musk\u2019s attorney made a controversial argument that discussions about the &#8220;climate risk associated with AI&#8221; are relevant, citing existential threats from AI. This was countered by the judge\u2019s remarks on Musk continuing to pursue AI despite such risks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Elon Musk and OpenAI Fighting an AI Arms Race? Sam Altman\u2019s Lawyers Think So&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/AP26118555622828-2000x1333.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-207599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-agi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207601,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207599\/revisions\/207601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}