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Sam Singer, the Bay Area’s go-to crisis PR guy, today celebrated his client OpenAI’s “tremendous victory” over Elon Musk.
A California jury threw out Musk’s lawsuit charging OpenAI and its boss Sam Altman with breaching a non-profit contract after Musk donated $38M to it.
The Tesla and SpaceX chief had testified that he filed the suit because “it’s not OK to steal from a charity.”
He and Altman launched OpenAI in 2025.
The case was thrown out because Musk lodged the suit after the statute of limitations had expired.
Standing outside the Oakland courthouse: the Singer Associates chief said the lawsuit was “nothing but an effort by Musk to slow down a competitor.”
He lauded the legal outcome a “victory of the justice system as well.”
Musk plans to appeal.
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