This is the new MLex platform. Existing customers should continue to use the existing MLex platform until migrated.
For any queries, please contact Customer Services or your Account Manager. Dismiss

Musk, OpenAI go to trial Monday in US battle over unconventional AI creation story

By Mike Swift and Amy Miller ( April 24, 2026, 20:40 GMT | Comment) -- Tech companies frequently face legal trouble for alleged violations of antitrust or privacy laws, but rarely has a tech giant faced allegations that it breached its charitable trust to nonprofit donors. As a high-profile trial between Elon Musk, OpenAI and Microsoft begins Monday in a federal court in California, much of the testimony, in proceedings over a company founded to benefit “the interests of humanity as a whole," will ironically be about individual ego and greed.Bill Hewlett and David Packard assembling their first invention in a garage in 1930s Palo Alto, California. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak building their Apple-1 computer in a garage in nearby Los Altos during the 1970s....

Prepare for tomorrow’s regulatory change, today

MLex identifies risk to business wherever it emerges, with specialist reporters across the globe providing exclusive news and deep-dive analysis on the proposals, probes, enforcement actions and rulings that matter to your organization and clients, now and in the longer term.


Know what others in the room don’t, with features including:

  • Daily newsletters for Antitrust, M&A, Trade, Data Privacy & Security, Technology, AI and more
  • Custom alerts on specific filters including geographies, industries, topics and companies to suit your practice needs
  • Predictive analysis from expert journalists across North America, the UK and Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific
  • Curated case files bringing together news, analysis and source documents in a single timeline

Experience MLex today with a 14-day free trial.

Start Free Trial

Already a subscriber? Click here to login

Related Sections