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Musk v. Altman et al
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May 23, 2025
Musk Doubles Down After OpenAI Drops For-Profit Transition
OpenAI's decision to abandon its transition into a for-profit enterprise was not enough to appease Elon Musk, who doubled down Thursday with an amended California federal court complaint continuing to allege the ChatGPT maker tricked him into contributing nearly $45 million with false promises of remaining a nonprofit.
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May 05, 2025
OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plan After Musk Suit Is Preserved
OpenAI announced Monday that it was no longer pursuing plans to transition the ChatGPT maker into a for-profit enterprise, changing course just days after a California federal judge refused to throw out the bulk of Elon Musk's suit challenging those plans.
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May 02, 2025
Musk Can Pursue Most Claims Against OpenAI, Microsoft
Microsoft, OpenAI and several of their affiliates cannot escape the bulk of Elon Musk's lawsuit accusing the companies of swindling him by transitioning the ChatGPT maker into a for-profit enterprise, a California federal judge ruled.
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April 24, 2025
Ex-OpenAI Workers, Nobel Laureates Back Musk OpenAI Fight
A group of former OpenAI employees and artificial intelligence experts, including some Nobel laureates, have urged the California and Delaware attorneys general to block OpenAI's move to take the company private, arguing that the attorneys general "have both the authority and duty to protect OpenAI's charitable trust and purpose."
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April 16, 2025
Musk Rips Calif. AG Decision To Not Join Suit Against OpenAI
Elon Musk blasted a California attorney general's office decision declining to join his federal lawsuit against OpenAI, saying in a Tuesday filing the decision appears to "misapprehend" the complaint and its derivative claims and "mischaracterizes or misunderstands" the consortium of investors he's assembled to bid on OpenAI Inc.'s assets.
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April 11, 2025
Microsoft, OpenAI Want Out Of Musk's For-Profit Challenge
OpenAI and Microsoft are ready to be done with a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk accusing them of swindling the billionaire by turning OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, into a private entity after he and others invested in the artificial intelligence venture.
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April 10, 2025
OpenAI Countersues Musk For 'Relentless' Harassment
OpenAI on Wednesday lodged a countersuit to Elon Musk's lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of abandoning its nonprofit mission, urging a California federal court to stop the billionaire from continuing an alleged "harassment campaign" aimed at impeding its success.
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April 04, 2025
OpenAI And Musk Get 2026 Trial Date, Likely Sans Microsoft
A California federal judge on Friday nailed down an expedited March 2026 trial schedule for Elon Musk and OpenAI's contract fight over OpenAI's transition into a for-profit enterprise, while staying antitrust claims indefinitely and calling Microsoft's request to participate in the trial if she dismisses Musk's claims against it "not logical."
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March 04, 2025
Musk Fails To Block OpenAI From Turning Into For-Profit Entity
A California federal judge on Tuesday denied Elon Musk's bid to preliminarily bar OpenAI Inc. from converting into a for-profit entity, saying that a threshold question of whether Musk's over $44 million in donations created a charitable trust was a "toss-up."
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February 14, 2025
'Not For Sale': OpenAI Rebuffs Musk's $97.4B Takeover Bid
The board of directors for OpenAI voted unanimously on Friday to reject a $97.4 billion offer from Elon Musk and a consortium of investors to buy the artificial intelligence platform, with the board chair saying in a statement, "OpenAI is not for sale."