Blockbuster AI Trial Ends With Elon Musk Loss Against OpenAI

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🗓️ 18 May 2026

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P.M. Edition for May 18. A California jury sides against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman. The decision clears the path for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, to go public. Plus, the Trump administration has created an unusual settlement fund for people who claim they have been victimized by the Justice Department. We hear from Journal reporter Ryan Barber on what we know about the fund and why it’s already getting pushback. And NextEra Energy has agreed to buy Dominion Energy in a $67 billion deal. Jennifer Hiller, who covers the power industry, says it would create the largest U.S. utility–but it’ll have to pass regulatory scrutiny first. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.2	on August 2025 proprietary survey among real estate professionals. Elon Musk loses his case in the high
0:36.0	profile Silicon Valley trial between him and OpenAI.
0:39.9	Plus, a new $1.776 billion Trump administration fund will pay people who say they were hurt by the legal system.
0:48.0	And it's getting pushed back.
0:49.7	The Justice Department is saying that there is precedent for this, but you have a number of legal experts out there saying that this is creating that apparatus to potentially reward a number of Trump's allies who've received some scrutiny from federal investigators or prosecutors in recent years.
1:07.0	And why a deal between two of the largest U.S. electricity providers is likely to face scrutiny
1:12.4	from regulators. It's Monday, May 18th. I'm Alex Osloaf for the Wall Street Journal. This is the PM edition
1:19.4	of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that moved the world today.
1:25.2	We begin tonight's show in Oakland, California, where a three-week trial that
1:29.7	fixated the tech world has reached a verdict. The jury there has rejected Elon Musk's claims
1:35.0	against OpenAI. He has alleged that OpenAI, quote, stole a charity when it converted into a for-profit
1:40.8	company. The jury took less than two hours to return the verdict, and they
1:44.9	dismissed the case on a technicality. They found that Musk brought his lawsuit against OpenAI and its
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