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Why is it open season on OpenAI?
Read more: Why is it open season on OpenAI?Yesterday, we announced the launch of our AI Copyright Case Tracker. We think it provides the public with a wealth of information and insights about the 130 copyright lawsuits against AI companies raging around the world. Fully 100 of the copyright lawsuits have been filed right here in the United States, where most of the…
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Court orders OpenAI to turn over Greg Brockman’s journal to Plaintiffs in MDL copyright suit. Plus, OAI employee Vinnie Monaco was unprepared for deposition re Project Giraffe guardrails
Read more: Court orders OpenAI to turn over Greg Brockman’s journal to Plaintiffs in MDL copyright suit. Plus, OAI employee Vinnie Monaco was unprepared for deposition re Project Giraffe guardrailsMagistrate Judge Wang just issued an important ruling on discovery disputes: Brockman’s journal came to light in the Elon Musk v. Sam Altman fraud lawsuit: Magistrate Judge Wang’s order:
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Elon Musk opposes OpenAI’s attempt to exclude Musk’s damages expert Dr. Wazzan from opining on estimate of Musk’s contribution to OpenAI’s business. Wazzan estimates 50-75% Musk contribution, valued at up to $109.43 billion owed to Musk.
Read more: Elon Musk opposes OpenAI’s attempt to exclude Musk’s damages expert Dr. Wazzan from opining on estimate of Musk’s contribution to OpenAI’s business. Wazzan estimates 50-75% Musk contribution, valued at up to $109.43 billion owed to Musk.Elon Musk opposes OpenAI’s motion to exclude 3 opinions of Musk’s damages expert, the biggest of which Dr. Wazzan’s estimate that Musk contributed 50 to 75% of the value of OpenAI and therefore should recover up to $109.43 billion of disgorgement for OpenAI’s ill-gotten gains derived from allegedly defrauding Musk. Musk alleges that OpenAI fraudulently…
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How OpenAI may face a Day of Reckoning in the tort lawsuit filed by Elon Musk. Copyright suits v. OpenAI take a backseat.
Read more: How OpenAI may face a Day of Reckoning in the tort lawsuit filed by Elon Musk. Copyright suits v. OpenAI take a backseat.The Trial of the Century will be on April 27, 2026, at 8 am sharp. In a federal courthouse in Oakland, jury selection in Elon Musk v. Sam Altman will start after a breakfast ordered by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Few legal experts expected this lawsuit would get this far, apparently out of skepticism of…
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Elon Musk deposition testimony: he “started to suspect that he was being swindled” by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman in 2017
Read more: Elon Musk deposition testimony: he “started to suspect that he was being swindled” by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman in 2017Elon Musk testified in his deposition in Musk v. Altman: he “started to suspect that he was being swindled” by Sam Altman and Greg Brockman in 2017, and the he “felt that he was being tricked.” Judge Gonzalez Rogers quoted this deposition testimony of Musk in his lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI.…
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Juicy details from Greg Brockman’s deposition: Becoming a billionaire was a motivation. Elon Musk was an early major donor.
Read more: Juicy details from Greg Brockman’s deposition: Becoming a billionaire was a motivation. Elon Musk was an early major donor.The unsealed exhibits in Musk v. Altman have been filed. Perhaps none more juicy than information and testimony from Greg Brockman, the co-founder of OpenAI, including from his contemporaneous journal entries during the pivotal time period By the way, another realization from this is that it would be wrong to steal the nonprofit from him…
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Are diary entries of Greg Brockman for OpenAI Elon Musk’s best evidence in case v. OpenAI?
Read more: Are diary entries of Greg Brockman for OpenAI Elon Musk’s best evidence in case v. OpenAI?OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman kept notes — what Elon Musk calls a diary — of Brockman’s thoughts regarding Elon Musk and his funding of OpenAI. Although Brockman’s diary is under seal, parts of them were quoted by Judge Gonzalez Rogers in her denial of OpenAI’s motion for summary judgment. From the Judge’s denial of OpenAI’s…
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The Trial of the Century: Elon Musk seeks disgorgement of $65.50B to $109.43B from OpenAI, $13.30B to $25.06B from Microsoft, plus punitive damages and injunctive relief. No amount (yet) specified v. Sam Altman and Greg Brockman personally. Unclear whether an injunction can stop OpenAI’s for-profit conversion.
Read more: The Trial of the Century: Elon Musk seeks disgorgement of $65.50B to $109.43B from OpenAI, $13.30B to $25.06B from Microsoft, plus punitive damages and injunctive relief. No amount (yet) specified v. Sam Altman and Greg Brockman personally. Unclear whether an injunction can stop OpenAI’s for-profit conversion.Elon Musk filed his notice of remedies sought from OpenAI and Microsoft in the upcoming April 2026 trial. Should he prevail in Elon Musk v. Sam Altman for alleged fraud in creating OpenAI in part with Musk’s money, Musk seeks an award of damages in the tens of billions. Based on Elon Musk’s economist expert…
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The Trial of the Century: Elon Musk v. Sam Altman starts Monday, April 27, 2026 at 8:00 a.m. with jury selection. And breakfast.
Read more: The Trial of the Century: Elon Musk v. Sam Altman starts Monday, April 27, 2026 at 8:00 a.m. with jury selection. And breakfast.After indicating at the hearing on January 8 that Elon Musk’s claims of fraud against Sam Altman in the founding of OpenAI must go to a jury due to sufficient factual issues, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers wasted no time in setting a trial date. The trial starts Monday, April 27, 2026 at 8:00 a.m. with…
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Texts of Sam Altman, Greg Brockman get to be searched again, Magistrate Judge rules
Read more: Texts of Sam Altman, Greg Brockman get to be searched again, Magistrate Judge rulesOpenAI continues to lose just above every discovery dispute in the MDL Litigation. In the second loss for OpenAI just today, Magistrate Judge Wang ruled, in part, the OpenAI needs to re-run searches of the texts and social media messages of Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. DOWNLOAD THE ORDER Related Stories