Microsoft’s C.E.O. Intervened When OpenAI Fired Sam Altman, Musk’s Lawyer Claims

Elon Musk’s lawyer argued that Microsoft’s Satya Nadella played a role in getting Mr. Altman his job back at OpenAI when he was briefly fired in 2023.

By Cade Metz and Mike Isaac

‘A consistent pattern of lying’: Musk v OpenAI trial exposes what insiders think of Sam Altman

The trial has exposed even more details about OpenAI’s fractious corporate past than previously documented OpenAI, despite its name, is usually extremely secretive about its operations. It promotes a carefully crafted image to the world. Over the course of Elon Musk’s case against the startup and its CEO Sam Altman, however, the artificial intelligence firm has been forced to publicly contend with some of the messiest parts of its rise to power in public. The Musk v OpenAI trial, which on Mon...

By Nick Robins-Early

OpenAI board member didn't look at the internet after firing Sam Altman

Ilya Sutskever testified at Elon Musk's trial against Sam Altman about power clashes from his time at OpenAI. Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images Ilya Sutskever voted to oust Sam Altman from OpenAI. After doing so, he didn't look at the internet, he testified Monday. Sutskever said he changed his mind and worried OpenAI would collapse without Altman. The chaos that followed Sam Altman's firing was one of the biggest business stories of 2023. Ilya Sutskever, one of the board members who voted to fi...

Inside OpenAI co-founder's diary, now star witness in the Musk vs OpenAI drama

OpenAI President Greg Brockman started typing a diary as a college student in 2010. Sixteen years later, Elon Musk's lawyers have it. Over two days in an Oakland federal courthouse, Brockman read his own private entries aloud to a jury, while 1,200 people watched on a YouTube livestream. Here's what's inside the diary now driving the Musk vs OpenAI trial.

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