ByPaulo Carvão,
Contributor.
Updated April 27, 2026, with information about the Musk v. Altman trial.
Jury selection begins Monday in the federal trial pitting Elon Musk against Sam Altman, OpenAI and Microsoft over whether OpenAI abandoned the nonprofit mission Musk says he helped fund.
Musk filed suit in 2024, arguing that the company he, Altman and others founded to develop AI for the benefit of humanity evolved into a profit-driven enterprise closely tied to Microsoft. He is seeking more than $134 billion, along with remedies that could reshape OpenAI’s leadership and structure.
