{"id":215776,"date":"2026-05-18T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/jury-hands-victory-to-sam-altman-and-openai-in-battle-with-elon-musk-ai-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:05:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:05:29","slug":"jury-hands-victory-to-sam-altman-and-openai-in-battle-with-elon-musk-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/jury-hands-victory-to-sam-altman-and-openai-in-battle-with-elon-musk-ai-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury hands victory to Sam Altman and OpenAI in battle with Elon Musk | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/18\/sam-altman-trial-victory-elon-musk-openai\">Jury hands victory to Sam Altman and OpenAI in battle with Elon Musk | AI (artificial intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/18\/sam-altman-trial-victory-elon-musk-openai\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/18\/sam-altman-trial-victory-elon-musk-openai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 13:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theguardian.com\">www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A jury ruled in favor of Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, founders of OpenAI, in a legal battle with Elon Musk.<\/li>\n<li>The federal jury found Altman and Brockman not liable for unjustly enriching themselves or breaking contracts allegedly made with Musk when founding the startup.<\/li>\n<li>Musk&#8217;s claims that Altman \u201cstole a charity\u201d through his leadership of OpenAI were rebuked in the verdict.<\/li>\n<li>The jury&#8217;s decision is non-binding but Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers indicated she would align her ruling with the verdict.<\/li>\n<li>The nine-person jury deliberated for three weeks, involving testimonies from key figures like Musk, Altman, Brockman, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.<\/li>\n<li>Musk sought $134 billion to be redistributed from the for-profit arm of OpenAI to its non-profit, and demanded Altman and Brockman be removed from their positions.<\/li>\n<li>Central allegations included that Altman and Brockman restructured the company in breach of founding agreements, accusations OpenAI strongly denied.<\/li>\n<li>The trial revealed internal conflicts and Musk&#8217;s motivations, including jealousy after his attempt to takeover and subsequent departure from the company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jury hands victory to Sam Altman and OpenAI in battle with Elon Musk | AI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e58e6018ecf5d31f073cbecec654aa2d8ffd0a7b\/0_0_3000_2400\/master\/3000.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=8b342daf1f78985cf585c455319bb77e","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-215776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215776"}],"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=215776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215778,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215776\/revisions\/215778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}