Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI

Key points

• Elon Musk suffered the worst defeat possible in his legal battle against OpenAI as a federal jury and a judge ruled he waited too long to bring his claims against the AI startup and its top executives, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.
• While the jury’s decision was a nonbinding recommendation sent to US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, she immediately accepted it as her own, making it final.
• Musk’s lead trial attorney, Steven Molo, told the judge, “Our intention is to appeal.” One of his other attorneys, Marc Toberoff, gave a one-word comment to reporters walking out of the courtroom: “Appeal.” He later said the verdict reminded him of American Revolutionary War moments like the Siege of Charleston and the Battle of Bunker Hill.
• “These were major losses for Americans, but who won the war?” Toberoff said.
• “And this one is not over.” OpenAI’s attorneys hugged in the courtroom after...