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OpenAI CEO and president found not liable for breaking contracts made with Musk when founding the startup A jury ruled in favor of Sam Altman in the culmination of a long and bitter legal battle that pitted the richest person in the world against a leader of the AI boom. The federal jury in Oakland, California, found Altman and Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, not liable for unjustly enriched themselves and breaking contracts made with Musk when founding the startup. Continue reading...
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The clock ran out on Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI before a jury ever had time to decide whether his allegations were true.
The world's richest man Elon Musk lost his blockbuster lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI on Monday, with a federal jury finding that the tycoon had waited too long to bring his case forward. The trial saw some of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley go head-to-head with their competing ambitions for the rapidly changing technology.
A jury in Oakland, Calif., reached a decision after a three-week long trial seen as pivotal for the future of OpenAI and the artificial intelligence race.
The tech trial of the year, Musk v. Altman, was ultimately a fight for control. Elon Musk argued that Sam Altman, with whom he helped found the now-massive company OpenAI, shouldn't direct the future of AI. Altman's lawyers, in turn, poked at Musk's own credibility. A jury came to a verdict on Monday after just two hours of deliberation, dismissing Musk's claims due to the statute of limitations. In a strictly legal sense, three weeks of testimony added up to nothing. But the trial offered a more damning broader takeaway: Almost nobody in this saga seems worth trusting. Some of the most powerful people in tech seem temperamentally incapable … Read the full story at The Verge.
A judge’s swift ruling against Musk removes a legal cloud hanging over the $500 billion AI company, potentially accelerating what could become one of the biggest public offerings in Wall Street history.
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