Berk Kutay Gokmen<\/p>\n
14 May 2026\u2022Update: 14 May 2026<\/p>\n
Elon Musk travelled to China alongside US President Donald Trump this week despite his ongoing trial, NBC News reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The trial is about a lawsuit Musk filed against the artificial intelligence company OpenAI. As a co-founder of the startup, Musk alleges the firm has betrayed its original nonprofit mission by creating a for-profit arm.<\/p>\n
Musk testified in the trial in the US state of California last month. In one of the hearings, a judge asked the relevant parties if there was any reason to hold Musk in recall status.<\/p>\n
Upon hearing \u201cyes\u201d from OpenAI defense, the judge told Musk that \u201cyou are not excused, but you can leave for the day.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report by NBC News said that Musk did not obtain permission from the judge before leaving the country and was still subject to recall as a witness.<\/p>\n
A court spokesperson said she did not know whether Musk obtained permission to leave the area or whether his travel could present a problem for the trial.<\/p>\n
Musk\u2019s absence reportedly may cause an issue if OpenAI, co-defendant Microsoft or the judge calls him back to the stand Wednesday, which is scheduled to be the final day of evidence in the trial.<\/p>\n
As of midday Wednesday, he had not been recalled. Closing statements are scheduled for Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berk Kutay Gokmen 14 May 2026\u2022Update: 14 May 2026 Elon Musk travelled to China alongside US President Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[202,203,10863],"class_list":{"0":"post-70675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-elon-musk","8":"tag-elon-musk","9":"tag-musk","10":"tag-sitekeywords"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116572037095154375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}