Dave Lee, Columnist

Altman ‘Won’ the Musk Trial But May Have Lost Wall Street

Sam Altman has his day in court.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

We’ve all been in meetings that “could have been an email,” so why not have a jury trial that could have been an AI prompt?

“Is Elon Musk able to sue OpenAI for breach of contract?” we might have asked before the three-week circus at a federal court in downtown Oakland, California. “No,” should have been the answer. “He’s too late.”