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Elon Musk's civil lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI goes to trial with jury selection beginning in Oakland.

Jury selection began Monday in federal court in Oakland, California for Elon Musk's civil lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman. Musk alleges that Altman and Brockman betrayed OpenAI's founding nonprofit mission by converting it into a for-profit enterprise after Musk provided roughly $38-44 million in early funding. OpenAI disputes the claims, arguing Musk himself supported a for-profit conversion and left after a failed bid to merge OpenAI with Tesla and assume sole control.

Divergence score

This event sits in the top 6% of divergence this week. 15 outlets covered it, splitting into 11 framing camps across 4 bias groups.

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Widest split · the two outlets furthest apart, and who published first

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CNN

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are about to face off in court. Is an impartial jury even possible?

jury selection challenge and IPO risk angle

Washington Examiner

What Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman could change about the AI industry

industry disruption and Musk reform framing

How CNN and Washington Examiner compare across every story →

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CNNfirst
Wall Street Journal+0 min
Politico+3.2 h
NPR+7.0 h
Reuters+7.4 h
Washington Examiner+14.7 h
Breitbart+14.9 h
Mother Jones+16.7 h
Al Jazeera+17.6 h
The Hill+19.9 h
NY Post+20.4 h
PBS NewsHour+39.2 h

By each outlet's earliest publish time in this story. Feeds that index slowly can appear later than they printed.

The split, in one line

Most outlets frame this as a high-stakes billionaire power struggle with industry-wide consequences; Mother Jones foregrounds OpenAI's broader societal harms and treats both parties skeptically, while Washington Examiner and Breitbart emphasize Musk's reformist legal case with less scrutiny of his motives.

How each outlet covered it