{"id":215866,"date":"2026-05-18T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/instant-view-california-jury-sides-with-openai-over-musk-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:05:12","slug":"instant-view-california-jury-sides-with-openai-over-musk-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/instant-view-california-jury-sides-with-openai-over-musk-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant View: California jury sides with OpenAI over Musk lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/view-california-jury-sides-with-openai-over-musk-lawsuit-2026-05-18\/\">Instant View: California jury sides with OpenAI over Musk lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/view-california-jury-sides-with-openai-over-musk-lawsuit-2026-05-18\/\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/view-california-jury-sides-with-openai-over-musk-lawsuit-2026-05-18\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 15:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.reuters.com\">www.reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A U.S. jury in Oakland, California, ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, finding the artificial intelligence company not liable for allegedly straying from its original mission of benefiting humanity.<\/li>\n<li>The verdict, reached after less than two hours of deliberation, suggested that Musk brought the case too late.<\/li>\n<li>Analysts, like Dan Ives from Wedbush, expressed that the decision was a huge win for Altman and OpenAI, removing a significant legal threat and clearing the path to the company&#8217;s IPO.<\/li>\n<li>The clean legal victory for OpenAI avoids defending any of the underlying conduct; the jury only needed to prove that the statute of limitations had expired.<\/li>\n<li>This decision reportedly lifts a $134 billion overhang on OpenAI, removing impediments to its planned IPO and keeping CEO Sam Altman at the helm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instant View: California jury sides with OpenAI over Musk lawsuit https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/view-california-jury-sides-with-openai-over-musk-lawsuit-2026-05-18\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-18 15:47:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resizer\/v2\/WJMGTG2FTVKFXKCBCK7P73SYPM.jpg?auth=1381e2beea7dae8d1a4cad38e5f068516712d1ac129653206840ac5589b70c09&height=1005&width=1920&quality=80&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-215866","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\/215866"}],"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=215866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215868,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215866\/revisions\/215868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}