Jury Rejects Musk's Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Altman
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- A federal jury unanimously rejected Elon Musk's claims against Sam Altman and OpenAI, finding the claims were filed outside the statute of limitations after less than two hours of deliberations on Monday.
- The lawsuit carried stakes of roughly $150 billion according to Times of India and Decrypt headlines, while Implicator.ai and The Decoder cited $134 billion — outlets agreed the case was decisively tossed, not narrowly decided.
- Major outlets spanning CNBC, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, BBC, Bloomberg, the Associated Press, and dozens of others all carried the verdict, with Thurrott characterizing it as a 'frivolous' lawsuit in its headline.
Why it matters: The unanimous verdict in under two hours delivers a decisive legal win for OpenAI and Sam Altman, foreclosing Musk's attempt to force a structural overhaul of the company he co-founded. For Musk, it ends a high-profile chapter — but the Times of India and Decrypt framed the dismissed suit as a $150 billion claim, underscoring the scale of what he gambled and lost. The speed of the jury's rejection signals the statute-of-limitations defense was never seriously contested.
