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Musk claims against OpenAI over for-profit conversion going to trial, US judge says

By Mike Swift ( January 8, 2026, 00:26 GMT | Insight) -- Elon Musk's claims that OpenAI committed fraud and breached its charitable trust by moving to a for-profit status will go to a jury, a federal judge said. "This case is going to trial," US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers flatly told lawyers for Musk and OpenAI at a hearing in Oakland, California. Microsoft, which is also a defendant in the suit, fared much better than OpenA, with Gonzalez Rogers saying there "is no evidence of a receipt of a benefit by Microsoft from Musk, which there needs to be" to sustain and unjust enrichment claim against Microsoft.Elon Musk’s challenge to OpenAI’s for-profit conversion is going to trial this year, a federal judge said Wednesday, in systematically demolishing OpenAI’s arguments to throw out Musk’s allegations that the ChatGPT-maker breached its charitable trust and committed fraud....

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