Published May 19, 2026 at 8:11 PM
TechCrunch
May 20, 2026, 6:00 AM
Elon Musk said Sam Altman ‘stole’ a non-profit — but the trial showed he had similar aims
The jury's speedy decision to reject Elon Musk's lawsuit against the other founders of OpenAI and Microsoft confirmed what we saw in the courtroom: Musk's case was a weak one, in part because he waited so long to file it.
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