AI Law Wiki News for May 18, 2026
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May 18, 2026 — A federal court in Oakland rejected Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Microsoft after an advisory jury found the claims untimely.[1]
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Musk v. Altman verdict
A nine-person advisory jury found that Musk waited too long to bring breach-of-charitable-trust and unjust-enrichment claims over OpenAI's shift toward a for-profit structure, and U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers accepted the jury's determination that the claims were time-barred.[1][2] Musk had alleged that OpenAI's leadership abandoned a founding nonprofit mission after he donated about $38 million to the organization, while OpenAI argued that there was no promise to remain a nonprofit forever and that restructuring was necessary to compete in an expensive AI race.[1] TechCrunch reported that Musk said he would appeal to the Ninth Circuit after the verdict.[2]
See also: Musk v Altman et al