Inside the courthouse as Elon Musk’s suit against OpenAI and Microsoft goes to trial

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, and President Greg Brockman as photographed through the windows of the federal courthouse in Oakland as they arrived for jury selection in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft. (GeekWire Photos / Todd Bishop) OAKLAND — Did Microsoft knowingly help OpenAI abandon its nonprofit mission? That question sits at the center of a trial starting here this week, pitting the world’s richest man against the AI nonprofit he helped found and the tech giant tha