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Sideshow fears and billionaire dreams: what I learned from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI

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This is a fragment Sources: Alex Heatha newsletter about artificial intelligence and the tech industry, distributed once a week only to The Verge subscribers.

Elon Musk first sued OpenAI in February 2024. Despite OpenAI’s repeated attempts to throw him out, the case now goes to a jury trial on April 27 in a Northern California federal court.

Musk’s main complaint is that OpenAI and its leaders have abandoned the original nonprofit mission of the company he funded. OpenAI, in turn, treated Musk’s claims as sour grapes. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers recently decided the case deserved a trial, saying in court that “part of this…

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