Following OpenAI win over Musk, doubts remain about US antitrust claims
By Mike Swift ( May 18, 2026, 23:16 GMT | Comment) -- After a federal jury in California handed down a unanimous verdict saying Elon Musk's charitable breach claims against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman were barred by the statute of limitations, the attention of both sides turned to a potential second trial phase on Musk's antitrust claims. The large volume of testimony in the three-week trial about the intensity of competition in the young AI industry will not make Musk’s antitrust allegations any easier to prove, should he decide to pursue them. One takeaway of the trial, said the federal judge who presided over it, was that "there is a lot of competition in this particular industry.”A US jury’s lightning-quick dismissal of Elon Musk’s breach-of-charitable-trust claims against OpenAI, Microsoft and two OpenAI executives on Monday already has Musk’s legal team preparing an appeal and getting ready for a potential second trial court phase on Musk’s antitrust claims....
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