Altman snubs machoman Musk on takeover bid: Cheap offer on OpenAI gets X rebuff

In the battle for the high-octane artificial intelligence-driven sweepstakes, it is the good old upright spine that has won the day.

Sam Altman, the 39-year-old Stanford University dropout who is one of the key drivers of the AI boom, has rebuffed Elon Musk’s offer to buy ChatGPT-maker OpenAI at a highly undervalued price.