- In stunning news, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers said, at a hearing on Wednesday, there’s plenty of evidence, albeit circumstantial, to allow Elon Musk’s fraud claim against Sam Altman and OpenAI to go to a jury trial this spring.
- The Judge pointed, as an example, a diary entry of OpenAI’s Greg Brockman stating “We’ve been thinking that maybe we should just flip to a for profit. Making the money for us sounds great and all.”
In stunning news, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers said, at a hearing on Wednesday, there’s plenty of evidence, albeit circumstantial, to allow Elon Musk’s fraud claim against Sam Altman and OpenAI to go to a jury trial this spring.
As reported by Economic Times: “A 2017 diary entry by OpenAI’s Brockman was among the information that Gonzalez Rogers cited to support her rationale for allowing Musk’s lawsuit to go to trial.In the diary, Brockman mused about his desire to become a billionaire and wrote, ‘We’ve been thinking that maybe we should just flip to a for profit. Making the money for us sounds great and all,’ according to court filings.”
OpenAI may have to put the IPO on hold.
UPDATE: JUDGE GONZALEZ-ROGERS’ RULING ON SUMMARY JUDGMENT IS BELOW:
Musk’s Second Amended Complaint is below: