Musk v. Altman gets its jury Benjamin Fanjoy\u2014Getty Images<\/p>\n A federal judge seated a nine-person jury on Monday<\/a> as the legal battle<\/a> between AI friends-turned-foes Elon Musk and Sam Altman begins.<\/p>\n Tesla, SpaceX, and DOGE aside\u2014plus that whole \u201cworld\u2019s richest man\u201d thing\u2014Musk is a cofounder of OpenAI. Altman is, too, as well as its current CEO.\u00a0<\/p>\n Musk sued Altman and the company (plus president Greg Brockman for good measure) in 2024 alleging that they didn\u2019t stick to their commitments to keep OpenAI a nonprofit. Musk, of course, now directly competes with OpenAI through xAI, which merged with SpaceX earlier this year.<\/p>\n Musk is trying a number of tactics to inflict pain on his old comrades. He seeks to have Altman and Brockman removed from their posts. He claims $150 billion in damages. He is pressing to have OpenAI fully returned to nonprofit status, rather than the for-profit-in-a-nonprofit-trench-coat structure the company adopted to justify its unprecedented fundraising.\u00a0<\/p>\n The judge for the case has divided the trial in two\u2014one portion for liability, the other for remedies. The jury will only give an advisory verdict on the liability portion, which is expected to wrap up in four weeks. \u2014AN<\/p>\n Google employees demand AI ban on Pentagon\u2019s classified operations<\/p>\n Turns out the outrage over misuse of AI isn\u2019t limited to Palantir employees.<\/p>\n More than 600 Google staffers\u2014including some from its DeepMind unit\u2014have demanded that the company reject a deal with the U.S. military that would allow Google\u2019s Gemini AI models to be deployed in classified military operations.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to see AI benefit humanity; not to see it being used in inhumane or extremely harmful ways,\u201d the employees wrote in the petition. \u201cThis includes lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance but extends beyond.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The letter was addressed to CEO Sundar Pichai and signed by directors and VPs, among others.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to the Washington Post<\/a>, Google proposed contract language to prevent Gemini\u2019s use in domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weapons without humans \u201cin the loop,\u201d as it\u2019s known. But the Pentagon much prefers that language to say \u201call lawful uses,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not the first time Google employees have pushed for a change in the company\u2019s government dealings. In 2018, staffers succeeded<\/a> in pushing Google to abandon a Pentagon program that would have integrated its AI into drone operations.<\/p>\n But times have changed. Today, Google and its rivals seem more keen to secure business from the public sector\u2014and perhaps justify their extraordinary AI spending. \u2014AN<\/p>\n Microsoft and OpenAI have changed their deal again<\/p>\n Just when it seemed like OpenAI and its largest outside shareholder, Microsoft, had worked it all out\u2026things have changed again.\u00a0<\/p>\n The AI company announced on Monday<\/a> a new agreement between the firms that lets OpenAI sell its wares on all cloud computing platforms, not just Microsoft\u2019s Azure. The new terms allow OpenAI to secure more compute as it scales its enterprise services to compete with rival Anthropic; both companies are plowing toward IPOs.\u00a0<\/p>\n (OpenAI\u2019s current valuation: $852 billion. Anthropic\u2019s: $380 billion, though secondary markets have recently pushed them to be neck-and-neck\u2026.at $1 trillion. Yeesh.)<\/p>\n So what\u2019s in it for Microsoft? Quite a bit. Redmond will remain OpenAI\u2019s primary cloud partner (with a promise to use $250 billion in Azure services by 2032) and enjoys a license to OpenAI\u2019s intellectual property through 2032. It will retain the right to make OpenAI products available first on Azure and lose the obligation to pay OpenAI a share of Microsoft\u2019s revenue for offering OpenAI models on Azure.\u00a0<\/p>\n The tech giant will also receive a guaranteed\u2014and that\u2019s an important word\u201420% of OpenAI revenue until 2030. (\u201cThough the total will now be subject to an undisclosed cap,\u201d Reuters notes<\/a>.) What\u2019s more, that pesky line about OpenAI halting payments to Microsoft if it achieves artificial general intelligence, a.k.a. AGI, has been removed.<\/p>\n One gets flexibility, the other, certainty. A win-win? So far, so good. \u2014AN<\/p>\n More tech<\/p>\n \u2014Rural U.S. communities to AI data centers<\/a>: Drop dead!<\/p>\n \u2014Last month was the worst<\/a> for reported tech job layoffs in at least two years.<\/p>\n \u2014Amazon Now<\/a>, the quick commerce service, will expand to 100 Indian cities.<\/p>\n \u2014Meta will reportedly unwind its Manus acquisition<\/a> after China rejected it.<\/p>\n \u2014Lightelligence jumps 400% in Hong Kong debut<\/a>. The Shanghai firm makes photonics chips.<\/p>\n![\"Demonstrators](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2272923137.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>Demonstrators protest outside the courthouse as jury selection begins in the lawsuit between Elon Musk and OpenAI on April 27, 2026 in Oakland, Calif.<\/p>\n