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Elon Musk has lost yet another legal battle. Why he'll still keep fighting

Elon Musk has lost yet another legal battle. Why he'll still keep fighting

Elon Musk, the world's richest man, has not been winning in court lately. His loss on Monday in his lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founder Sam Altman is the latest in a string of legal defeats or settlements. Late last year he agreed to settle with former Twitter executives and thousands of former employees of the social platform, which he has renamed X, after fighting for years to pay them nothing. Then in March, he lost a case brought against him by investors of Twitter, who claimed they were misled by public statements he made during the takeover. That same month, a judge threw out his lawsuit against advertisers that decided to leave the platform. In May, another judge reversed certain actions by Doge, the government cost-cutting department Musk helped create and led last year, finding cuts to some grants were "a textbook example of unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination." Now that he's also lost his high-profile lawsuit against OpenAI, is it possible that Musk will be less prone to picking fights? "No one is invincible," said Shubha Ghosh, a lawyer and law professor at Syracuse University. But it may take more significant losses for Musk to back off, or change his aggres

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