{"id":211761,"date":"2026-05-10T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/microsoft-boss-to-testify-on-his-role-in-openais-founding\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T01:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:05:18","slug":"microsoft-boss-to-testify-on-his-role-in-openais-founding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/microsoft-boss-to-testify-on-his-role-in-openais-founding\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft boss to testify on his role in OpenAI&#8217;s founding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/business\/microsoft-boss-to-testify-on-his-role-in-openais-founding\/article\">Microsoft boss to testify on his role in OpenAI&#8217;s founding<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/business\/microsoft-boss-to-testify-on-his-role-in-openais-founding\/article\">https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/business\/microsoft-boss-to-testify-on-his-role-in-openais-founding\/article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-10 21:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.digitaljournal.com\">www.digitaljournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary of the article using an unordered list with key points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Microsoft CEO&#8217;s Testimony<\/strong>: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is expected to testify in the lawsuit filed by Elon Musk against OpenAI. The trial involves the shift of OpenAI\u2019s organizational structure from a nonprofit to a for-profit entity.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Elon Musk&#8217;s Claims<\/strong>: Musk accuses OpenAI of straying from its original nonprofit mission and misusing his $38 million in donations for a profitable venture now valued at over $850 billion.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>OpenAI&#8217;s Defense<\/strong>: OpenAI counters that Musk left the company after failing to gain control and is now competing against it through his own AI venture, xAI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Jury and Final Ruling<\/strong>: An advisory jury will provide a verdict by the week of May 18. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers will then make the final ruling based on the jury\u2019s recommendation, which may impact OpenAI\u2019s potential IPO.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Microsoft Investment<\/strong>: Musk\u2019s lawyers will argue that Microsoft\u2019s investment in 2019 (a total of $13 billion) knowingly supported the transformation of a nonprofit foundation into a for-profit enterprise.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Internal Emails<\/strong>: Recently disclosed emails from Nadella indicate skepticism at Microsoft regarding the nonprofit\u2019s research and intentions, which changed when profit potential emerged.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Internal Strife<\/strong>: The trial has laid bare internal disagreements among elite Silicon Valley figures leading up to the launch of the popular chatbot, ChatGPT, in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Tesla-SpaceX Partnership<\/strong>: Musk recently announced a partnership with competitor Anthropic to use the compute capacity at SpaceX\u2019s largest data center, further intensifying the rivalry in the AI field.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft boss to testify on his role in OpenAI&#8217;s founding https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/business\/microsoft-boss-to-testify-on-his-role-in-openais-founding\/article Publish Date: 2026-05-10 21:17:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/838b98e503f47a6669f87a822e01153fd70cb630.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211761"}],"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=211761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211763,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211761\/revisions\/211763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}