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Elon Musk’s lawyer apologized to the jury for his absence during closing arguments in the OpenAI trial, as the CEO is currently in China with President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Musk is suing OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, accusing them of violating the company’s nonprofit agreement. OpenAI’s counsel used Musk’s absence and their clients’ presence to highlight their commitment to the case.<\/p>\n

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Elon Musk’s lawyer apologized to the jury for his absence during closing arguments in the OpenAI trial, as the CEO is currently in China with President Donald Trump. Musk is suing OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, accusing them of violating the company’s nonprofit agreement. OpenAI’s counsel used Musk’s absence and their clients’ presence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108306813-17786865541778686551-45912697928-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1778686554&w=750&h=422&vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-global-affairs","category-technology","rifnote_country-china","rifnote_country-united-states","rifnote_executive-donald-trump","rifnote_executive-elon-musk","rifnote_executive-greg-brockman","rifnote_executive-jensen-huang","rifnote_executive-sam-altman","rifnote_executive-shivon-zilis","rifnote_executive-tim-cook","rifnote_executive-xi-jinping","rifnote_executive-yvonne-gonzalez-rogers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108306813-17786865541778686551-45912697928-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1778686554&w=750&h=422&vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}