{"id":299515,"date":"2026-05-04T18:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299515\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:55:18","slug":"musk-sought-settlement-with-openai-before-oakland-trial-filing-shows-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299515\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk sought settlement with OpenAI before Oakland trial, filing shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Removes extraneous text in paragraph 3)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">May 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Elon Musk contacted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/openai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:OpenAI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;OpenAI&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a> President Greg Brockman to gauge interest in \u200ca settlement two days before their high-stakes trial got \u200cunderway in Oakland federal court, according to a new court filing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">When Brockman suggested \u200bboth sides drop their claims, Musk allegedly said, &#8220;By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so it will be,&#8221; the filing, \u200cmade on Sunday, stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The \u2060exchange is the latest flashpoint in a lawsuit that has already grown combative inside the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The SpaceX \u2060founder testified on Thursday that he did not read the fine print of a 2017 term sheet related to OpenAI&#8217;s shift from \u200ba nonprofit \u200bto a for-profit structure, only \u200bits headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Musk is suing OpenAI \u200calleging that its shift to a for-profit structure betrayed its original nonprofit mission to develop safe <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:AI technology;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;AI technology&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI technology<\/a> for the public good and that the company&#8217;s leaders wrongfully profited from his charitable contributions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The SpaceX founder is seeking changes to OpenAI&#8217;s leadership and $150 billion \u200cin damages from OpenAI and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/microsoft\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Microsoft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Microsoft&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a>, \u200bone of its largest investors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The trial \u200bbefore U.S. District Judge \u200bYvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, began on April \u200c28 and is expected to \u200blast several weeks, \u200bwith a verdict possible by mid-May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Altman, Brockman and Microsoft chief Satya Nadella are expected to testify later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Musk, his \u200blawyer, and OpenAI \u200cdid not immediately respond to Reuters&#8217; requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting \u200bby Anhata Rooprai in Bengaluru and Deepa Seetharaman in Oakland, \u200bCalifornia; Editing by Anil D&#8217;Silva)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Removes extraneous text in paragraph 3) May 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Elon Musk contacted OpenAI President Greg Brockman to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[42165,1611,119921,143,145,144,3408],"class_list":["post-299515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-court-filing","tag-elon-musk","tag-greg-brockman","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-openai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}