Elon Musk v Sam Altman: tech bros at war over OpenAI – The Latest
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:12.0 | OpenII. |
| 0:12.9 | OpenI rejected all of Musk's various accusations and said that Musk is basically just a sore loser in this. |
| 0:20.4 | The trial pitting two of the world's biggest tech billionaires against each other |
| 0:24.4 | has come to an end. |
| 0:25.7 | A federal judge in California today dismissed a lawsuit from Elon Musk against the maker of |
| 0:30.6 | ChatGPT. |
| 0:31.8 | Every single competitor is doing all they can to slow the others down or leapfrog them |
| 0:37.5 | because there's just trillions of dollars on the table. |
| 0:40.7 | A face-off in court between the world's richest man |
| 0:43.4 | and the king of the AI boom. |
| 0:45.3 | Why did OpenAI Sam Altman win a case brought against him |
| 0:48.5 | by former backer Elon Musk? |
| 0:50.9 | From The Guardians Today in Focus, |
| 0:52.6 | this is the latest with me, Lucy Hove. |
| 0:56.1 | Well, joining me down the line from New York is Nick Robbins Early, tech and power reporter |
| 1:00.9 | for Guardian US. Nick, thanks for dialing in early doors in New York. So you have for three |
| 1:07.1 | weeks been covering this fairly extraordinary trial between two of the great tech titans, |
| 1:13.3 | Sam Altman of Open AI and Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX amongst his other ventures. |
| 1:20.5 | Victory was handed to Sam Altman unanimously by the jury yesterday and we'll come on to kind of |
| 1:25.8 | what that was all about. But can you |
| 1:28.2 | describe to me, first of all, what it was like? You described it in one headline as cringy, which I |
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