{"id":10647,"date":"2026-04-30T20:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/elon-musk-openai-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:18:37","slug":"elon-musk-openai-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/elon-musk-openai-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Just Got Badly Humiliated in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elon Musk helped birth OpenAI in 2015, a world-changing AI non-profit which he lavished with tens of millions of dollars alongside its now-CEO Sam Altman. Now in 2026, he\u2019s suing to unwind the entire project with a civil suit, claiming that Altman betrayed the nonprofit\u2019s mission by turning it into a profit-seeking machine \u2014 nevermind the fact that Musk also runs his own for-profit AI company<\/a>, xAI.<\/p>\n

The civil trial, taking place in San Francisco, pits two of tech\u2019s most powerful egos against each other in a duel for control over the broader AI ecosystem. That being the case, it\u2019s already devolved into a circus just days into the case, with the erratic Musk emerging as a key liability<\/a> in his own proceedings.<\/p>\n

During day three of the trial, Elon Musk struggled to present a confident front, which led to a number of unforced errors. One of his major blunders came when the billionaire claimed that \u201cTesla is not pursuing AGI,\u201d or artificial general intelligence, the north star for American AI developers broadly defined as the point at which AI reaches human-level intelligence.<\/p>\n

That might seem like a no-brainer \u2014 Tesla is an electric vehicle company, after all \u2014 but it stands in direct contradiction to Musk\u2019s own comments not even two months earlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cTesla will be one of the companies to make AGI and probably the first to make it in humanoid\/atom-shaping form,\u201d Musk wrote on X-formerly-Twitter<\/a> as recently as March 4, 2026. That comment was even entered as an exhibit in the court case, officially enshrining Musk\u2019s lies into the judicial record.<\/p>\n

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Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI and probably the first to make it in humanoid\/atom-shaping form<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The blunders didn\u2019t stop there. At one point, Musk was asked if he was romantically involved with the Canadian venture capitalist Shivon Zilis<\/a>, with whom the billionaire shares four kids. \u201cI think so,\u201d Musk replied on the witness stand.<\/p>\n

Later, Musk admitted that he \u201cdid not read the fine print\u201d of an OpenAI term sheet Altman had sent his way back in 2018, as the billionaire stepped away<\/a> from the company\u2019s board. \u201cIt\u2019s a four-page document,\u201d the opposing lawyer retorted.<\/p>\n

As Hard Reset<\/em> reporter Alex Shultz<\/a> noted, Musk could have easily skimmed the document before he took the stand, but must have decided his time would be better spent elsewhere.<\/p>\n

It all paints a rather dithering picture of Musk, who can\u2019t be bothered to do even the bare minimum preparation for his lawsuit where the stakes are, in his attorney\u2019s words<\/a>, the \u201cgood of humanity as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on Musk: <\/strong>Elon Musk Admits He Lied to Tesla Customers\u2019 Faces for Years About Self-Driving<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post Elon Musk Just Got Badly Humiliated in Court<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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