The Download: Musk and Altman’s legal showdown, and AI’s profit problem
2026-04-28 · MIT Technology Review
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are finally heading to court over OpenAI's future, in a legal showdown driven more by personal pettiness than principle. The case could have sweeping consequences for OpenAI's controversial pivot from nonprofit to profit-driven AI empire. Nothing says 'for the benefit of humanity' quite like two billionaires fighting over who gets to control it.