PANews reported on April 5 that according to Sina Finance, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Friday local time that Musk's lawsuit against artificial intelligence company OpenAI will start a jury trial in the spring of 2026. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, the judge of the Northern District of California who presided over the case, rejected Musk's request to suspend OpenAI's transformation to a profit model last month and proposed to speed up the trial process.
The court battle between the world's richest man and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has made new progress. The two sides have previously reached an accelerated trial agreement on OpenAI's for-profit transformation. Musk co-founded OpenAI with Altman in 2015, but withdrew before the company took off and founded a competing company xAI in 2023. In April this year, xAI acquired Musk's social media platform X at a valuation of US$33 billion, allowing the valuation of its artificial intelligence company to be shared with X's co-investors.
