Jim Carlton

Who Owns the Future of AI?

Both sides gave it their best shot. Now it’s up to a jury—and U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers—to determine a winner in the titanic fight between artificial intelligence (AI) kingpins Elon Musk and Sam Altman. The world’s richest man—Musk—jetted off to China as President Trump’s restored “First Buddy” while the third and final week of his trial against OpenAI and cofounder Altman played out in an intense fourth-floor courtroom in Oakland, Calif.