{"id":248275,"date":"2026-05-15T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/musk-v-altman-week-3-musk-and-altman-traded-blows-over-each-others-credibility-now-the-jury-will-pick-a-side\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:39:00","slug":"musk-v-altman-week-3-musk-and-altman-traded-blows-over-each-others-credibility-now-the-jury-will-pick-a-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/musk-v-altman-week-3-musk-and-altman-traded-blows-over-each-others-credibility-now-the-jury-will-pick-a-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk v. Altman week 3: Musk and Altman traded blows over each other\u2019s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side."},"content":{"rendered":"

Musk v. Altman week 3: Musk and Altman traded blows over each other\u2019s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-15 19:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk\u2019s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman\u2019s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involving companies that do business with OpenAI. But he fired back, painting Musk as a power-seeker who wanted to control the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI)\u2014powerful AI that can compete with humans on most cognitive tasks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As evidence of their commitment to AI safety, OpenAI brought out a golden trophy of a donkey\u2019s ass that was gifted to an employee after he was called a \u201cjackass\u201d for standing up to Musk\u2019s plans to race toward AGI.\u00a0\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Lawyers for both sides also presented their closing arguments, floating unflattering mugshot-style photos of Musk and Altman next to each other on a giant screen. Musk\u2019s lawyer Steven Molo argued that Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman broke their promise to use money Musk donated to maintain OpenAI as a nonprofit that develops AI for the benefit of humanity. Instead, they created a for-profit subsidiary that made them extraordinarily wealthy.\t\t<\/p>\n

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OpenAI\u2019s lawyer Sarah Eddy argued that Altman and Brockman never promised to keep OpenAI a nonprofit. She added that even though it\u2019s been restructured, OpenAI remains a nonprofit dedicated to developing AI safely.<\/p>\n

She claimed that Musk sued too late\u2014and that his real motive is to sabotage a competitor to his own AI company, xAI, which he launched in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Musk is asking the court to unwind the 2025 restructuring that converted OpenAI\u2019s for-profit subsidiary into a public benefit corporation and to remove Altman and Brockman from their roles. He is also seeking as much as $134…<\/p>\n

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