Elon Musk loses court battle against OpenAI
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The court battle that has gripped Silicon Valley for three weeks is over - for now - after the jury found Elon Musk had left it too late to sue the artificial intelligence company OpenAI and its boss Sam Altman. The billionaire slammed the court verdict as a "technicality" and vowed to appeal. Musk had accused Altman of breaching a non-profit contract by shifting the ChatGPT-maker to a for-profit company after Musk donated $38m early in OpenAI's history. Also: Russian President Vladimir Putin heads to Beijing for a visit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. The authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have linked 118 deaths to the current Ebola outbreak in the east of the country. A BBC investigation reveals allegations of rape and sexual misconduct behind the scenes of Married At First Sight UK. An exclusive interview with Juan Orlando Hernández, the ex-president of Honduras who was handed a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking and weapons offences before he was pardoned by Donald Trump. How an Interpol campaign to identify cold cases led to the arrest of a suspect in the murder of a teenage girl in Germany 25 years ago. And is Pep Guardiola about to leave Manchester City?
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| 0:28.1 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:33.3 | I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Tuesday the 19th of May, these are our main stories. |
| 0:40.6 | Elon Musk loses his legal battle with AI rival Sam Altman over whether Open AI, |
| 0:46.5 | the company behind Chat, GPT, should be a charity. |
| 0:50.1 | A week after Donald Trump's visit to China, Xi Jinping prepares to host the Russian president Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:57.1 | In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ebola is said to be spreading over a wider area |
| 1:01.8 | with 118 deaths now confirmed. |
| 1:06.8 | Also in this podcast. |
| 1:09.0 | He said that if I told anybody what had happened, |
| 1:13.0 | that he would get someone to throw acid at me. |
| 1:17.9 | Here in Britain, two women have told the BBC they were raped during the filming, |
| 1:22.7 | one of the biggest shows on the Channel 4 TV network, |
| 1:26.6 | married at First Sites, UK. |
| 1:31.4 | The world's richest man. Elon Musk has lost his landmark case against his former business |
| 1:37.1 | partner, Sam Altman of Open AI. But the battle between the two tech giants didn't end after |
| 1:43.4 | only two hours of jury deliberation |
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