Jury clears OpenAI and Sam Altman in Elon Musk's lawsuit.

A jury has found OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman not liable in the lawsuit brought by Elon Musk, delivering a significant legal defeat for the Tesla and SpaceX billionaire. Musk had alleged that OpenAI and its leadership breached founding agreements by shifting the organisation away from its original non-profit, open-source mission toward a for-profit structure aligned with Microsoft.

The verdict removes a major legal cloud that had hung over OpenAI as it pursues a broader corporate restructuring and continued fundraising at a reported valuation north of $80 billion. For Musk, the loss closes one front in his ongoing public and commercial rivalry with Altman — though separate regulatory and public-interest arguments around AI governance remain very much in play.