Federal judge denies Musk move to block OpenAI’s shift to for-profit model

A California judge denied Elon Musk’s move to halt OpenAI’s efforts to convert it into a for-profit entity, saying in a ruling that the SpaceX and Tesla CEO hadn’t met “the high burden required for a preliminary injunction.” 

The declaration from U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland comes after Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman last year, arguing that OpenAI’s founders first approached him to back a nonprofit focused on developing AI for humanity, but now want to make money, according to