Musk, an early OpenAI backer, has been engaged in a legal showdown with the company and Altman for over a year, alleging a breach of contract and the betrayal of OpenAI's founding nonprofit mission.

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers denied Elon Musk’s attempt to pause OpenAI’s for-profit model but agreed to fast-track the trial later this year.

A federal judge sitting in Oakland on Tuesday denied Elon Musk’s request for immediate relief in his high-stakes lawsuit against Sam Altman and the artificial intelligence company OpenAI.

Elon Musk’s bid in court to block Sam Altman from restructuring OpenAI will be expedited for a trial in the fall of this year, a judge said.

Elon Musk lost a court bid asking a judge to ... California federal district court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers offered to hear Musk’s core claim against OpenAI on an expedited schedule that ...