Published May 12, 2026 at 6:05 PM
TechCrunch
May 13, 2026, 6:00 AM
Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies

Altman said that Musk's focus on controlling the initial for-profit gave him pause because OpenAI was dedicated to keeping advanced AI out of the hands of a single person, and Altman, with his experience running the prominent startup accelerator Y Combinator, knew "founders who had control usually did not give it up."
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