By Mike Swift ( May 15, 2026, 22:30 GMT | Comment) -- Despite all the testimony about greed and power that a jury in Oakland, California, heard over the last three weeks during a trial on Elon Musk's claims that OpenAI breached his charitable trust through its partnership with Microsoft, the jury's first threshold question as its deliberations begin Monday will be whether Musk waited too long to sue under the statute of limitations. While that is a technical question, answering the three statute of limitations questions on the verdict form will likely force the jury to grapple with two seemingly improbable assertions in testimony they heard during the trial that concluded Thursday.When jurors in Elon Musk’s breach of charitable trust suit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, begin to fill in their verdict forms on Monday, the first decision they will make is whether Musk waited too long to sue the OpenAI defendants and Microsoft....
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