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In Elon Musk’s Case Against OpenAI, Everyone Loses

Neither the ChatGPT founders nor Elon Musk needs the publicity as they look toward IPOs.
Elon Musk arrives at the federal courthouse in Oakland, California, on April 30.Photographer: Josh Edelson/AFP

A trial pitting some tech-world titans against one another continues today in California. Bloomberg Businessweek senior reporter Max Chafkin writes that it’s been a messy, humiliating courtroom drama for Elon Musk and the founders of ChatGPT. You can read an excerpt below and the whole article online free. Plus: We go around the world to see how small businesses are struggling from the Iran war, take a walk with the founder of Raising Cane’s, and look at the scale of the challenge facing Hungary’s new leader.

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