{"slug": "jury-rejects-elon-musks-claim-against-sam-altman-in-unanimous-verdict", "title": "Jury Rejects Elon Musk’s Claim Against Sam Altman in Unanimous Verdict", "summary": "A nine-person jury unanimously rejected Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, finding that Musk filed the claim after the three-year statute of limitations had expired. The jury determined Musk was aware of the conduct cited in his complaint as early as 2021, but did not sue the $730 billion artificial intelligence start-up until the summer of 2024.", "body_md": "Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times (gift link):\n\nA nine-person jury found that Elon Musk did not bring his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman until after the expiration of the three-year statute of limitations.\n\nMr. Musk filed his suit against the $730 billion artificial intelligence start-up in the summer of 2024, but the jury found that he was aware of the behavior discussed in his complaint against OpenAI as far back as 2021.\n\n[This update](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/18/technology/openai-trial-verdict-altman-musk/b9130408-2a29-5624-9bff-6d29ca60f062?smid=url-share) quoting Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’s “poetic” jury instructions is just lovely:\n\n“A jury reflects the attitudes and mores of the community from which it is drawn,” she said, paraphrasing another judge. “It lives only for the day and does justice according to its limits. The group of jurors who are drawn to hear a case make a decision and then melt away. It is not present the next day to be criticized. It is the one governmental agency that has no ambition. It is as human as the people who make it up.”", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jury-rejects-elon-musks-claim-against-sam-altman-in-unanimous-verdict", "canonical_source": "https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/18/technology/openai-trial-verdict-altman-musk?unlocked_article_code=1.jVA.Cc2V.IwYuu2r4SJfQ", "published_at": "2026-05-18 17:53:33+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-25 15:18:20.687890+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-startups", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Elon Musk", "Sam Altman", "OpenAI", "New York Times", "Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jury-rejects-elon-musks-claim-against-sam-altman-in-unanimous-verdict", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jury-rejects-elon-musks-claim-against-sam-altman-in-unanimous-verdict.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jury-rejects-elon-musks-claim-against-sam-altman-in-unanimous-verdict.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jury-rejects-elon-musks-claim-against-sam-altman-in-unanimous-verdict.jsonld"}}