Sam Altman · OpenAI · Elon Musk · X · BBC Technology
Late last year he agreed to settle with former Twitter executives and thousands of former employees of the social platform
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Then in March, he lost a case brought against him by investors of Twitter, who claimed they were misled by public statements he made during the takeover.
Key facts
- A recent fine of $1.5m (£1.1m) from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over his failure to disclose his initial accumulation of Twitter stock, for instance, is insignificant for someone
- No one is invincible," said Shubha Ghosh, a lawyer and law professor at Syracuse University
- I don't see him stopping," said Dorothy Lund, a lawyer and law professor at Columbia Law School
- Lund noted that even notoriously aggressive corporate figures like Carl Icahn, the famed "corporate raider" who inspired the greed-driven character of Gordon Gecko in the film Wall Street, did not
Summary
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, has not been winning in court lately. His loss on Monday in his lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founder Sam Altman is the latest in a string of legal defeats or settlements. Late last year he agreed to settle with former Twitter executives and thousands of former employees of the social platform, which he has renamed X, after fighting for years to pay them nothing. That same month, a judge threw out his lawsuit against advertisers that decided to leave the platform.