The Musk v. OpenAI case will begin a jury trial next spring

According to Sina Finance, on Friday local time, a federal judge in the United States ruled that Musk's lawsuit against artificial intelligence company OpenAI will begin a jury trial in the spring of 2026. Judge Ivor Gonzalez Rogers, presiding over the case in the Northern District of California, rejected Musk's request to suspend OpenAI's transition to a for-profit model last month and proposed expediting the trial process. The court battle between the world's richest man and OpenAI CEO Sam Ultraman has brought new developments. Both parties have previously reached an accelerated trial agreement on OpenAI's for-profit transformation. Musk co founded OpenAI with Ultraman in 2015, but withdrew before the company took off and founded the competitive enterprise xAI in 2023. In April of this year, xAI acquired Musk's social media platform X for a valuation of $33 billion, allowing its AI company's valuation to be shared with X's co investors.