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What we learned from the cringey courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman

2026-05-16 · AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

The Musk vs. Altman courtroom soap opera gave us front-row seats to two billionaires airing their dirty laundry over who really 'stole' OpenAI. A nine-person jury now gets to decide if turning a nonprofit AI lab into a cash machine counts as charity theft. Nothing says 'for the benefit of humanity' like a bitter legal catfight between ego-driven tech moguls.

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