OpenAI says Elon Musk has changed direction on what he’s seeking in his lawsuit against the startup in a “legal ambush” just weeks before trial. In a court filing Friday, it said the objectives Musk proposed earlier in the week appear to be aimed at “sandbagging the defendants and injecting chaos into the proceedings, while trying to recast his public narrative about his lawsuit.” Musk sued OpenAI and Microsoft in 2024 over claims that the maker of ChatGPT abandoned its founding mission as a research institution and became a for-profit business. He told the court in Jan he was seeking in the range of $79 billion to $134 billion in “wrongful gains” from his adversaries.(This is a bloomberg story)
