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A federal jury in Oakland unanimously dismisses Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman after finding the breach of charitable trust claims barred by the statute of limitations

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The suit filed in August 2024 alleged OpenAI improperly shifted from its nonprofit roots, but the panel never reached the substance and the judge adopted the verdict as final.

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SITUATION DETECTED: The jury in Musk v. Altman has returned a unanimous verdict. All three of Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI were found barred by the statute of limitations.

10:32 AM · May 18, 2026 View on X
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the AI trial of the century ended with a procedural whimper rather a bang; the jury agreed that Musk was too late but never weighed in on the questions of whether OpenAI did was legitimate.

and so we will never know what the world might be like had OpenAI been forced to fully follow its original mission.

6:17 PM · May 18, 2026 · 2.3K Views

a very procedural end to the AI trial of the century.

we will never know what the world might be like had OpenAI been forced to fully follow its original mission.

6:07 PM · May 18, 2026 · 1.9K Views

the AI trial of the century ended with a procedural whimper rather a bang; the jury agreed that Musk was too late but never weighed in on the questions of whether OpenAI did was legitimate.

and so we will never know what the world might be like had OpenAI been forced to fully follow its original mission (as reprinted below).

6:33 PM · May 18, 2026 · 4.7K Views

Verdict.

Hadas GoldHadas Gold@Hadas_Gold

Jury verdict, Musk loses Claims barred by statute of limitations REMEMBER this is advisory

5:29 PM · May 18, 2026 · 88.6K Views
5:35 PM · May 18, 2026 · 20.6K Views

@haydenfield I thought everyone came out looking worse, unfortunately.

Hayden FieldHayden Field@haydenfield

Public opinion of the AI industry is already sinking. A parade of seemingly untrustworthy executives makes it look worse. Ultimately, Musk v. Altman was a battle about control—and even though claims were dismissed, some of the trial takeaways were damning. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/932464/musk-v-altman-proved-that-ai-is-led-by-the-wrong-people

7:06 PM · May 18, 2026 · 552 Views
7:47 PM · May 18, 2026 · 75 Views

@GaryMarcus Why are there two spaces after "with" before "a"? That usually happens when someone copy+pastes, often from a chatbot.

Gary MarcusGary Marcus@GaryMarcus

the AI trial of the century ended with a procedural whimper rather a bang; the jury agreed that Musk was too late but never weighed in on the questions of whether OpenAI did was legitimate. and so we will never know what the world might be like had OpenAI been forced to fully follow its original mission (as reprinted below).

6:33 PM · May 18, 2026 · 4.7K Views
6:34 PM · May 18, 2026 · 155 Views

Musk has lost his lawsuit against openai, by @peard33 and @ZeffMax https://www.wired.com/story/musk-v-altman-jury-verdict/

5:53 PM · May 18, 2026 · 5.1K Views

Anyone wanna go out together to raise $1B seed @ 0% dil with me now that this precedent is set?

7:14 PM · May 18, 2026 · 7.9K Views

BREAKING: in Musk v. Altman, a unanimous nine-person jury found OpenAI not liable! determining that Elon Musk brought his claims past the legal statute of limitations.

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez indicated she'll likely side with the jury.

@OpenAI avoids a potentially devastating mandate to dismantle its commercial structure, unwind its multi-billion-dollar partnership with Microsoft, or revert entirely to its original 2015 nonprofit model.

5:45 PM · May 18, 2026 · 5K Views

@ShakeelHashim I guess it bought us a few days more runway to the singularity, so I'll take it.

ShakeelShakeel@ShakeelHashim

Well that was a good use of everyone’s time!

5:48 PM · May 18, 2026 · 1.5K Views
6:03 PM · May 18, 2026 · 65 Views
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