His Times colleague, Kevin Roose, said “the jackass trophy is lore among early OpenAI employees, not just because of how funny it is but because the guy who gave it to Josh — a safety exec named Dario — went on to do some other stuff in AI.”

Musk sued OpenAI, Altman and the company's president, Greg Brockman, in 2024, alleging they went back on their vow to keep the artificial intelligence company a nonprofit and follow its charitable mission. He argued that the roughly $38 million he donated to OpenAI was used for unauthorized commercial purposes.

WSJ's Angel Au-Yeung has been reporting from the courthouse where OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand Tuesday in the megatrial between him and billionaire Elon Musk.

Satya Nadella testified for roughly two and a half hours in the Musk v.

Shivon Zilis just became one of the most closely watched witnesses in Elon Musk’s legal war with OpenAI. The former OpenAI board member testified in federal court about her work, her loyalty and her private family connection to Musk.

When you’re a centibillionaire, it turns out, legal orders from U.S. federal judges don’t apply. Case in point: Elon Musk was recently ordered by a federal judge to be on "recall" status for the blockbuster OpenAI trial currently unfolding in Oakland,