A Deep Dive Into the Sam Altman–vs.–Elon Musk Trial

AI approach the bench, Your Honor? There’s still more than a week until Elon Musk, et al. v. Samuel Altman, et al.—the civil trial placing the past, present, and future workings of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI into the consideration of a judge and jury—is slated to convene at a federal courthouse in Oakland, California. Already this dispute has been pitting eccentric hypertech execs (and their AI frontier lab concerns) against one another, and its outcome could leave billions of dollars suspended somewhere in the legal ether.