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4 hours agoThe OpenAI Jury Has to Decide: Do You Trust Elon Musk or Sam Altman?
Musk’s legal team argues Sam Altman is not trustworthy and that jurors must doubt his credibility for Musk to win.
“You didn't disclose to the United States Senate that you had an interest in OpenAI through a share in a Y Combinator fund, did you?” barked Steve Molo, the combative attorney leading Elon Musk's effort to shut down OpenAI's for-profit business. Altman had admitted that he did have economic exposure to OpenAI through his LP position in the Y Combinator fund. “I didn't mention it in that testimony, but, again, I think it is well understood of what it means to be a passive owner of many venture funds,” Almtan said.
The trial is slated to begin April 27, 2026, as a federal judge considers Musk's claim that Altman and OpenAI abandoned their founding promise to develop AI for the benefit of humanity.
Pause AI, founded in Utrecht, Netherlands in May 2023 by Joep Meindertsma, aims to halt what it calls 'dangerous frontier AI' and staged its first protest outside Microsoft's lobbying office in Brussels.