Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and that Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board
Tesla billionaire also seeks Sam Altman's removal from OpenAI nonprofit's board in amendment to suit over for-profit conversion
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Musk Wants Damages Sent to OpenAI's Charity, Altman Off Board
Elon Musk amended his OpenAI lawsuit, redirecting potential damages to the nonprofit and seeking Sam Altman's board removal.
Elon Musk just made his legal battle with OpenAI a lot more interesting. The Tesla billionaire has amended his ongoing lawsuit against the AI company with two major new demands.
First, any damages Musk might win would go straight to OpenAI's charitable arm — not his own pocket. Second, he wants Sam Altman kicked off OpenAI's nonprofit board entirely.
The moves come as part of Musk's broader challenge to OpenAI's controversial pivot from nonprofit to for-profit structure. By redirecting potential winnings to OpenAI's charity division, Musk is clearly trying to reframe the suit as mission-driven rather than personal.
Whether a court will entertain removing Altman from the board he helped build remains an open question. But the amended filing raises the stakes significantly in one of tech's messiest feuds.