Here Are the Key Players in the OpenAI Trial
Elon Musk, Sam Altman and several other key artificial intelligence industry figures are slated to testify in the trial, which is expected to last several weeks.
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Elon Musk, Sam Altman and several other key artificial intelligence industry figures are slated to testify in the trial, which is expected to last several weeks.
Who are the lawyers representing Elon Musk, OpenAI and Microsoft?
In the trial’s first day of testimony, Elon Musk said greed led co-founder Sam Altman to pull the A.I. lab away from its nonprofit roots. OpenAI says that’s nonsense.
Here’s what OpenAI’s lawyer argued in his opening statement.
Why does Elon Musk talk so much about saving humanity?
April 28, 2026, 11:19 a.m. ET Anti-data center signage is displayed outside Bart and Amy Snyder’s farm in Wolcott, Ind. The Snyders have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the planned construction of an A.I. data center next door to their property.Credit…Luke Sharrett for The New York Times When Michael Grayston, an evangelical pastor in … Read more
The Pentagon has also signed deals for using A.I. on classified networks with OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI, amid a dispute with Anthropic.
Here’s the latest.
This trial comes amid a growing national backlash against A.I.
Musk’s posts on his X social media platform have pushed his narrative that OpenAI has lost its way.