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news Scmp World 2026-04-27

Musk vs. Altman: Legal Feud Hinges on OpenAI Internal Diary

The legal conflict between Elon Musk and OpenAI, spearheaded by Sam Altman, involves reviewing internal documents. A key piece of evidence appears to be a diary entry from 2017 written by OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman.


The bitter legal fight between Elon Musk ⁠and the leadingAIe firm, OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, may come down ⁠to a few pages in one executive’s personal diary. “This is the only chance we have to get out from Elon,” wrote Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and a co-founder, in the autumn of 2017. “Is he the ‘glorious leader’ that I would pick?” Brockman’s diary entry is part of the thousands of pages of internal documents revealed in court since Musk, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI,...

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