{"id":240939,"date":"2026-05-18T17:34:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:34:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:34:43","slug":"elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk\u2019s claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI cofounders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musk had accused Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI and Microsoft of \u201cstealing a charity\u201d by creating a for-profit affiliate to the frontier AI lab. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jurors, however, found that any harms that Musk suffered came before the deadline for filing his claims under the law. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>When you purchase through links in our articles, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/techcrunch-affiliate-monetization-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we may earn a small commission<\/a>. This doesn\u2019t affect our editorial independence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/05\/18\/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI cofounders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late. Musk had accused Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI and Microsoft of \u201cstealing a charity\u201d by creating a for-profit affiliate to the frontier AI lab. Jurors, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-240939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}