Altman ‘won’ the Musk trial but may have lost Wall Street

WE HAVE all been in meetings that “could have been an e-mail”, so why not have a jury trial that could have been an artificial intelligence 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.”

That was the jury’s anticlimactic verdict on Musk’s effort to sue Sam Altman, OpenAI and Microsoft over transforming OpenAI from a nonprofit into a for-profit concern – or “stealing a charity”, as Musk put it more than a dozen times while on the stand.