BBC News
By Lily Jamali, North America technology correspondent, Oakland, California and Kali Hays,Technology reporter
May 18. 2026
A California jury has tossed out Elon Musk’s high-profile lawsuit against OpenAI and its boss Sam Altman.
In a unanimous verdict, the jury agreed that Musk had waited too long to file his lawsuit, leaving all of his claims essentially expired.
Musk had accused Altman of breaching a non-profit contract by shifting the ChatGPT-maker to a for-profit company after Musk donated $38m (£28.5m) early in OpenAI’s history.
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