{"id":215807,"date":"2026-05-18T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/musk-loses-case-against-openai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:55:10","slug":"musk-loses-case-against-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/musk-loses-case-against-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk loses case against OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/18\/tech\/openai-musk-lawsuit-verdict\">Musk loses case against OpenAI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/18\/tech\/openai-musk-lawsuit-verdict\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/18\/tech\/openai-musk-lawsuit-verdict<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 13:36:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s lawsuit against OpenAI and its leaders, including CEO Sam Altman and company president Greg Brockman, was dismissed due to the statute of limitations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The jury&#8217;s verdict, though advisory, was agreed upon by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who found ample evidence supporting the jury&#8217;s findings.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Musk, who cofounded and funded OpenAI with an initial $38 million investment, alleged that the defendants shifted the company\u2019s structure to include a for-profit arm, thereby misappropriating a charitable enterprise.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The trial revealed that Musk was aware of the changes at the company as early as 2021, and had even attempted to establish a for-profit branch of his own.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The jury found the lawsuit to be an attempt to undermine a competitor, as Musk had founded his own AI company, xAI, before filing the suit.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>High-profile witnesses, including former board member and Musk&#8217;s child&#8217;s mother, Shivon Zilis, and notable testimonies were part of the proceedings.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The evidence presented included internal communications and Google\u2019s role in OpenAI\u2019s founding.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The case highlighted Musk&#8217;s romantic ties with Zilis and the various funding considerations examined by OpenAI during its setup.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Microsoft, named as a codefendant for its investment in OpenAI, supported the decision to dismiss Musk&#8217;s claims.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Musk\u2019s legal team expressed intentions to appeal the decision.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk loses case against OpenAI https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/18\/tech\/openai-musk-lawsuit-verdict Publish Date: 2026-05-18 13:36:00 Source Domain: www.cnn.com Elon Musk&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2273033055.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215807","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\/215807"}],"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=215807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215810,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215807\/revisions\/215810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}