Musk, OpenAI for-profit dispute gets late April date for California jury trial
By Mike Swift ( January 13, 2026, 22:30 GMT | Insight) -- A federal judge in California has set April 27 for the start of a one-month jury trial on Elon Musk's claims that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reneged on his promises to maintain the artificial intelligence startup as a nonprofit.A federal judge in California has set a late April date for a jury trial over Elon Musk’s allegation that OpenAI’s pivot to a for-profit model was a fraudulent breach of its charitable trust....
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