Jury dismisses Elon Musk's $134B OpenAI lawsuit
a california jury rejected elon musk's $134 billion lawsuit against openai after two hours of deliberation, upholding the company's shift to a for-profit structure.
elon musk lost his legal bid to force openai to revert to a non-profit structure and pay $134 billion in alleged ill-gotten gains. the oakland jury took only two hours to reject musk's claims, which argued that openai betrayed its founding mission to develop artificial general intelligence for the benefit of humanity. openai's legal team successfully argued that musk had originally supported a for-profit model provided he maintained control. judge yvonne gonzalez rogers praised the verdict and dismissed the concurrent lawsuit against microsoft. musk's attorney indicated plans to appeal the decision.