Musk Faces Long Court Battle Over Falling Out With OpenAI
- US judge is reluctant to block startup’s restructuring plan
- Case may not go to trial until 2027; Musk may have to testify
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Elon Musk’s move to immediately block Sam Altman from restructuring OpenAI faltered in federal court, with a judge saying she was reluctant to issue such an order in a case pitting “billionaires versus billionaires.”
The world’s richest person presented his request in filings as an emergency, telling the court the startup he helped found a decade ago needs to be stopped from carrying out what he’s described as a quest by Altman and Microsoft Corp. to dominate the generative artificial intelligence industry.