Elon Musk urges court to block OpenAI ‘illegal’ for-profit conversion

Elon Musk asked a federal court to block OpenAI from pursuing an “illegal” conversion to a for-profit business, saying that a pause on the ChatGPT maker’s accelerating dominance is urgently needed to protect his own artificial intelligence startup as well as the public.

In his latest court filing, Musk continued his months-long attack on Sam Altman, nine years after they worked together to launch OpenAI as a nonprofit with a stated mission to develop generative artificial intelligence for the benefit of society.