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May 20, 2026
OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks
OpenAI would be one of the most highly anticipated potential initial public offerings, in what is set to be a major year of I.P.O.s for Silicon Valley.
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May 19, 2026
As OpenAI Celebrates Court Win Against Musk, Other Challenges Lie Ahead
A jury’s rejection of Elon Musk’s $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI was a major hurdle crossed. But the maker of ChatGPT faces a list of other problems.
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May 18, 2026
Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion Suit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman
A nine-member jury found that Mr. Musk had waited too long to sue. The setback for the tech mogul frees OpenAI to continue in the artificial intelligence race.
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May 18, 2026
Five Takeaways From the Blockbuster Trial Pitting Elon Musk Against OpenAI
It took a jury less than two hours to decide that Mr. Musk had waited too long to sue. But the testimony over three weeks was still illuminating.
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May 18, 2026
What to Know About Elon Musk’s Trial Against OpenAI
A jury in Oakland, Calif., reached a decision after a three-week long trial seen as pivotal for the future of OpenAI and the artificial intelligence race.
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May 18, 2026
What the jury had to weigh to decide the case.
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May 18, 2026
Here’s the latest.
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May 15, 2026
OpenAI Trial Heads to Jury After Closing Arguments in Musk vs. Altman Case
Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI made their closing arguments in the blockbuster federal trial on Thursday. Nine jurors are set to begin deliberations next week.
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May 14, 2026
What the jury must weigh to decide the case.
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May 14, 2026
Microsoft’s C.E.O. testified about the company’s OpenAI investments.
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May 14, 2026
Why A.I. Safety Controls Are Not Very Effective
Three years after the debut of ChatGPT, fooling A.I. systems into bad behavior is almost trivial.
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May 14, 2026
Elon Musk’s lawyer asked Sam Altman on the stand: Are you trustworthy?
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May 14, 2026
Elon Musk’s lawyer asked Sam Altman on the stand: Are you trustworthy?
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May 14, 2026
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May 13, 2026
Notable Researchers Join $4 Billion Effort to Build Self-Improving A.I.
Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.
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May 13, 2026
Notable Researchers Join $4 Billion Effort to Build Self-Improving A.I.
Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.
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May 12, 2026
Musk Lawyer’s Question for Sam Altman on the Stand: Are You Trustworthy?
Mr. Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, said on Tuesday that he worried Elon Musk wanted control of the A.I. lab.
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May 12, 2026
This is Sam Altman’s first time testifying in court.
The chief executive
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May 12, 2026
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May 12, 2026
Is Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Really a Cybersecurity Risk?
Anthropic said that Claude Mythos was too dangerous to release to the public. That claim has reopened an old debate over cybersecurity.
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May 12, 2026
A.I. and Humans Battle It Out in a Cybersecurity Showdown
Experts and college students used A.I. agents to try to break into and defend computer networks in a national competition. The agents did all right on their own, too.
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May 12, 2026
Start-Up Raises $1.3 Billion for an A.I. ‘Grid’
As tech giants dominate the hardware needed to build artificial intelligence, Amp hopes to create an alternative.
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May 11, 2026
Microsoft’s C.E.O. Intervened When OpenAI Fired Sam Altman, Musk’s Lawyer Claims
Elon Musk’s lawyer argued that Microsoft’s Satya Nadella played a role in getting Mr. Altman his job back at OpenAI when he was briefly fired in 2023.
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May 6, 2026
Elon Musk’s Confidante Shivon Zilis Is Cast as His Inside Source at OpenAI
Shivon Zilis worked closely with Elon Musk while she was on OpenAI’s board of directors. Her ties to the world’s richest man were detailed in a landmark trial on Wednesday.
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May 5, 2026
Elon Musk Wanted OpenAI to Go Commercial, Greg Brockman Testifies
Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, testified in a trial pitting Mr. Musk against his company that the world’s richest man was eager to change how it operated as a nonprofit.
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May 4, 2026
Elon Musk’s Lawyers Ask OpenAI’s President Why He Is Worth $30 Billion
The legal team implied in a federal trial that Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, was driven by greed rather than building safe A.I.
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May 1, 2026
Musk vs. Altman: What Is This Really About?
In a landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, the origins of OpenAI are being examined. The Times’s technology reporter Cade Metz explains what’s behind it all.
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April 30, 2026
Inside the Courtroom at the OpenAI Trial
A New York Times tech reporter shares a dispatch from the press gallery of the showdown between Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
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April 30, 2026
Is A.I. a Threat to Humanity? Not in This Trial.
One of Elon Musk’s abiding fears is that A.I. could one day threaten humans. But the jurors deciding his suit against OpenAI probably won’t hear about it.
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April 30, 2026
Musk says he ‘was a fool’ to provide OpenAI’s early funding.
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