Elon Musk

Madlin Mekelburg and Rachel Metz Updated May 13, 2026 — 7:23am, first published 6:00am Oakland, California: OpenAI’s Sam Altman testified that he was “extremely uncomfortable” with Elon Musk’s insistence that he have complete control over a proposed for-profit subsidiary of OpenAI back in 2017. Altman told jurors that Musk said…

Every morning during the Elon Musk–Sam Altman trial, before the jury files in, the lawyers from both sides hold their daily squabble sessions with Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. They’re some of the most sharp-elbowed and revealing portions of the proceedings, as the attorneys debate with the judge over what is…

Updated 12 May 2026 at 14:44 IST Others taking part include Meta's Dina Powell McCormick, BlackRock's Larry Fink, Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, Micron's Sanjay Mehrotra, Mastercard's Michael Miebach, Qualcomm's Cristiano Amon and Visa's Ryan ​McInerney, the official said. Elon Musk and Tim Cook are set to visit China with Donald Trump.…

Change to Bill C-16 comes after experts warned the original version of the bill would likely not incorporate many of the images created by Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee has amended a proposed bill that would criminalize sexual deepfakes to ensure it covers "nearly…

So, what’s a guy got to do to become a billionaire around here? Greg Brockman scribbled the question in his diary, recently unsealed as trial evidence, just two years after co-founding OpenAI as a charity in 2015: “Financially, what will take me to $1B?” For Brockman, now OpenAI’s president, the…

French prosecutors who are investigating Elon Musk and his social media platform X have summoned the billionaire to France to face preliminary charges. The investigation is now officially a criminal probe, according to French officials. France opened a probe in 2025 to investigate whether X has violated French law, an…

These were among the options explored by OpenAI’s founders as they weighed the best structure to enable the company to raise enough capital to take on Google while retaining its non-profit mission. Ultimately, OpenAI’s executives were not persuaded by Musk’s proposals. Zilis told Musk’s then-chief of staff Sam Teller in…

Elon Musk arrives at the federal courthouse in the trial over Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI in Oakland, California, on April 28. Karl Mondon/AFP/Getty Images Elon Musk sought a potential settlement with OpenAI two days before his massive trial against the ChatGPT maker began last week, a new court filing from…

The case involves Musk's missing a statutory deadline for notifying regulators as he bought more and more Twitter shares ahead of the takeover. The post Elon Musk agrees to pay $1.5m over Twitter share buying appeared first on Vanguard News...Read More

Here’s what we learned from Elon Musk’s testimony, and what to expect this week. Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first,  sign up here . Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam…