{"id":1237214,"date":"2025-03-05T13:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237214"},"modified":"2025-03-05T13:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:10:12","slug":"musk-loses-bid-to-stop-openais-for-profit-shift-but-can-make-his-case-in-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237214","title":{"rendered":"Musk loses bid to stop OpenAI\u2019s for-profit shift, but can make his case in trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A federal judge rejected Elon Musk&#8217;s request to block OpenAI&#8217;s planned conversion from a nonprofit to for-profit entity but expedited the case so that Musk&#8217;s core claims can be addressed in a trial before the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Musk had <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2024\/12\/elon-musk-asks-court-to-block-openai-conversion-from-nonprofit-to-for-profit\/\">filed a motion<\/a> for preliminary injunction in US District Court for the Northern District of California, claiming that OpenAI&#8217;s for-profit conversation &#8220;violates the terms of Musk&#8217;s donations&#8221; to the company. But Musk failed to meet the burden of proof needed for an injunction, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.433688\/gov.uscourts.cand.433688.121.0.pdf\">ruled yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Plaintiffs Elon Musk, [former OpenAI board member] Shivon Zilis, and X.AI Corp. (&#8216;xAI&#8217;) collectively move for a preliminary injunction barring defendants from engaging in various business activities, which plaintiffs claim violate federal antitrust and state law,&#8221; Rogers wrote. &#8220;The relief requested is extraordinary and rarely granted as it seeks the ultimate relief of the case on an expedited basis, with a cursory record, and without the benefit of a trial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/03\/musk-loses-bid-to-stop-openais-for-profit-shift-but-can-make-his-case-in-trial\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/03\/musk-loses-bid-to-stop-openais-for-profit-shift-but-can-make-his-case-in-trial\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge rejected Elon Musk&#8217;s request to block OpenAI&#8217;s planned conversion from a nonprofit to for-profit entity but expedited the case so that Musk&#8217;s core claims can be addressed in a trial before the end of this year. Musk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237214\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}