Elon Musk loses lawsuit against Sam Altman; says judge ruled on calendar technicality
Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman because he filed it too late, not because the jury rejected his claims.Summary
Elon Musk has reacted after losing his lawsuit against OpenAI, stating that the court never ruled on the merits of his allegations. In a post on X, the tech billionaire claimed the case was dismissed solely due to a legal timing issue rather than a rejection of his accusations against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman. He further alleged that Altman and Brockman had enriched themselves by moving OpenAI away from its original nonprofit mission. Musk plans to file an appeal with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that creating a precedent to loot charities is destructive to charitable giving. A jury in Oakland, California, ruled that Musk waited too long to file the lawsuit, as California law required him to bring the case within three years of becoming aware of the alleged breach. The jury concluded that Musk already knew about the company's shift toward a for-profit structure years before he sued in 2024. The jury was not asked to decide whether OpenAI actually betrayed its founding mission, but only whether Musk had filed the case within the legal deadline. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers accepted the verdict and dismissed the lawsuit.
(Source：The Times Of India)