Elon Musk loses trial accusing Sam Altman, OpenAI of stealing a charity

Elon Musk filed his lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing a charity too late, a nine-person jury unanimously decided Monday. Musk sued OpenAI in 2024 for making a “fool” out of him after Musk donated $38 million to kickstart OpenAI as a nonprofit only to later blindside Musk by creating a for-profit arm that he felt gutted funding for the charity while enriching executives like Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. But the jury found that Musk was aware of OpenAI’s restructuring plans as early as 2021, and therefore missed the statute of limitations requiring him to bring the lawsuit within three…