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Musk seeks to keep 'inherently inflammatory' personal information out of OpenAI trial

By Mike Swift ( February 25, 2026, 22:35 GMT | Insight) -- Seeking to shape the boundaries of a trial this spring against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over the company's conversion to for-profit status, Elon Musk filed a series of motions to exclude evidence and testimony from the trial over his claims against the defendants. Beyond seeking to exclude investigations by the attorneys general of California and Delaware about OpenAI's transition to a for-profit model, Musk asked a federal judge in California to keep sealed evidence OpenAI wants to introduce that contains "provocative and irrelevant information" about his personal life that Musk says would prejudice jurors.Elon Musk hopes to block OpenAI from revealing “inherently inflammatory materials” about his personal life before a looming trial over the AI giant’s conversion to a for-profit entity, even as he seeks to keep probes by California and Delaware about that conversion out of the trial....

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