{"id":69007,"date":"2026-05-19T14:23:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/court-throws-out-musks-150b-openai-lawsuit-over-timing-issues\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:23:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:23:58","slug":"court-throws-out-musks-150b-openai-lawsuit-over-timing-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/court-throws-out-musks-150b-openai-lawsuit-over-timing-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Throws Out Musk’s $150B OpenAI Lawsuit Over Timing Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A California federal court has thrown out Elon Musk’s massive $150 billion legal challenge against artificial intelligence company OpenAI, with jurors determining the billionaire entrepreneur filed his case too late.<\/p>

The nine-person jury in Oakland reached their unanimous decision in under two hours following a three-week trial. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers immediately accepted the jury’s recommendation and dismissed the lawsuit due to statute of limitations issues.<\/p>

Musk’s legal challenge centered on allegations that CEO Sam Altman and OpenAI President Greg Brockman violated their fiduciary responsibilities by shifting away from the company’s founding nonprofit goals toward a commercial, profit-focused business model backed by Microsoft.<\/p>

The lawsuit claimed Altman broke a nonprofit agreement after Musk contributed $38 million to OpenAI. Musk contended that Altman took his financial support while secretly planning to convert the organization into a money-making enterprise aimed at personal enrichment instead of creating artificial intelligence to help humanity.<\/p>

OpenAI’s attorneys successfully demonstrated that Musk had been aware of the company’s intentions to transition to a for-profit model for years before he finally brought the lawsuit in 2024.<\/p>

The court decision clears away a major legal hurdle for OpenAI as the company moves toward a highly anticipated stock market debut that could potentially place the firm’s worth at approximately $1 trillion.<\/p>

After the ruling, Musk took to social media platform X to denounce the court’s decision, calling the dismissal a “calendar technicality.” His lawyer, Marc Toberoff, announced plans to challenge the ruling in the Ninth Circuit appeals court.<\/p>

Musk continued his criticism of Altman and Brockman in another X post, writing: “Altman & Brockman did in fact enrich themselves by stealing a charity. The only question is WHEN they did it! Creating a precedent to loot \u2060charities is incredibly destructive to charitable giving in America.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A federal jury in California has rejected Elon Musk’s massive $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI, ruling that he waited too long to file the case. Musk had claimed the AI company’s leaders violated their nonprofit mission when they shifted to a for-profit model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":69006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[834],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/news-1779215038537.jpg?fit=189%2C54&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbtNqq-hX1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68432,"url":"https:\/\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/federal-court-dismisses-musks-lawsuit-against-openai-over-timing-issues\/","url_meta":{"origin":69007,"position":0},"title":"Federal Court Dismisses Musk’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Over Timing Issues","author":"Admin","date":"May 18, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"A federal jury in California ruled against Elon Musk in his legal battle with OpenAI, finding he waited too long to file his lawsuit. 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