Sam Altman testifies in OpenAI lawsuit

The Musk v. Altman trial continues this week, as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella takes the stand. Follow along with @lopatto.bsky.social as she liveblogs from the courthouse.

Sam Altman testified in his trial against Elon Musk today that OpenAI's mission is to build AI for "the benefit of humanity." Meanwhile, OpenAI...

in which sam altman testifies that the best possible meeting with elon musk is one where you have to spend a long time looking at memes on his phone... www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I'm sorry this is SUCH a dis track. Sam Altman testified that Elon Musk's exit from OpenAI was a "morale boost" to some employees and that Musk's management style may work in factories but wasn't great for the AI research lab. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/o... (trial updates today at @cnbc.com)

new frontiers in protest props outside the Musk vs. Altman trial

Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, has taken the stand in a trial pitting him against Elon Musk, the company's co-founder, to determine the future of the A.I. start-up’s business. Follow live updates.

This is an intriguingly drafted article. It could just be a straightforward report - AGs inquiring about conflicts - but WSJ peppers it with mentions of the Musk trial over OpenAI, and how Musk and Altman are both Trump allies. The suggestion seems to be, the AGs are allying themselves with Musk.

Altman took the stand Tuesday during a high-stakes trial brought to court by Elon Musk.

This Musk v. Altman trial is the dumbest fucking thing. Everyone involved is a fucking moron, especially piss-baby Musk who started this whole shit because he didn't get his way at OpenAI. Also nobody except these fucks has ever believed that OpenAI was a "charity." www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/m...

Exclusive: OpenAI’s Sam Altman’s personal investments are coming under intensifying scrutiny from Republicans following an April article in The Wall Street Journal.

The Musk-Altman Trial Veers Into 'Terminator'-Style AI Apocalypse—and Both Sides Stand to Profit

Appreciating AP's lovely understatement on the Musk v. Altman trial. "neither of the tech titans has emerged as an overly sympathetic character." (And give me back my Tweetdeck, Elon, you suck.)

We all know GPT is extremely bad. That it's quite so bad, and so specifically dangerous, is perhaps due to it being led by a very problematic person. Altman was ousted by his closest peers for unsuitability and untrustworthiness, before lawyering himself back in. This piece is crazy, and valuable.

Do you know how bad you have to suck for this guy to realize it? He literally thinks ChatGPT is the paragon of accuracy 😂 Sam Altman says Elon Musk’s mind games were damaging OpenAI. Musk’s departure from #OpenAI was a ‘morale boost,’ according to Altman. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

This is in fact the best argument against AI in the arts - if you use AI to write, your work is now coauthored by Sam Altman or Elon Musk or whoever.