After joining with Mr. Musk to create OpenAI in 2015 and pledging to carefully develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity, the suit claimed, Mr. Altman and Mr. Brockman abandoned this mission by entering its multibillion-dollar partnership with Microsoft.

Billionaire Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI but now says the ChatGPT developer has betrayed its original mission of helping humanity with artificial intelligence.

Elon Musk unveiled emails between himself and fellow billionaire Sam Altman as evidence in the Tesla CEO's amended lawsuit against Altman and OpenAI.

Joe Lonsdale, a tech investor close to Mr. Musk, is not planning to play a formal role in the Trump transition, according to a person briefed on the matter, and he has said publicly that he does not want to join the administration “full time” but would rather play a part-time advisory role.

President-elect Donald Trump announced this week that Elon Musk will help lead a new agency known as the Department of Government Efficiency. Theodore Schleifer, campaign finance reporter for The New York Times,

Elon Musk is facing intense scrutiny for his role in the presidential election. In April 2022, Musk, the world’s richest man, said Twitter must remain neutral to deserve public trust. Within months, he had acquired the social media platform.