By Mike Swift ( May 15, 2026, 00:35 GMT | Insight) -- Lawyers for OpenAI attacked the plausibility of Elon Musk's testimony that he never learned about OpenAI's for-profit plans until late 2022, while a lawyer for Musk continued to assail the integrity of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, during a marathon day of closing arguments in the high-profile trial between Musk, OpenAI and Microsoft. The jury's deliberations will begin in earnest on Monday.Open AI CEO Sam Altman’s integrity faced a frontal assault by a lawyer for Elon Musk, one of the company's founders, while OpenAI lawyers walked a jury through Musk’s ego-driven need to “dominate” artificial general intelligence, as the liability phase of a federal trial over the AI giant’s nonprofit founding concluded Thursday....
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