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Nine jurors selected to determine liability in US Musk, OpenAI trial

By Amy Miller ( April 28, 2026, 00:43 GMT | Insight) -- Nine jurors from a wide range of backgrounds and professions were seated Monday in the legal battle between former friends and current rivals Elon Musk and Sam Altman as protestors gathered outside a federal courthouse in Oakland, California. Three nurses, a part-time caretaker, a self-employed house painter, a recent retiree from the defense industry and an employee at Wells Fargo bank will now if decide if OpenAI is liable for abandoning its nonprofit mission and breaching its charitable trust to nonprofit donors, as Musk alleges. At least six of the jurors are immigrants from countries such as the Philippines, East Africa, Guatemala and Pakistan.Nine jurors from a wide range of backgrounds and professions were seated Monday in the legal battle between former friends and current rivals Elon Musk and Sam Altman as protestors gathered outside a federal courthouse in Oakland, California....

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