Takeaways from day 1 of the Elon Musk and Sam Altman trial | CNN Business

Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, the leaders of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, sat in an Oakland, California courtroom on Tuesday as former collaborator and one-time mentor Elon Musk testified that the pair conspired to try to “steal a charity.” Musk was the first witness called in his blockbuster case against OpenAI, a company he founded with Brockman and Altman, initially as an entirely nonprofit entity, more than a decade ago. But since then, OpenAI’s structure has shifted – and Musk, the richest man on earth, claims its executives and Microsoft have unjustly enriched themselves by straying from the company’s original charitable mission. OpenAI says Musk’s suit is really about trying to squash a rival to his own artificial intelligence company, xAI. Here are the most striking takeaways from Musk’s first day of testimony on Tuesday: Musk testified Tuesday that he had believed that he was funding an organization that would be a “benefit for all of humanity.” He framed the case in dire terms, arguing that losing the trial would “give license to looting every charity in America.” The trial’s outcome may also significantly change the AI landscape right as OpenAI, one of t