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Jury tosses Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman The jury ruled that Musk waited too long to sue and found Altman, co-founder Greg Brockman and OpenAI not liable on all claims.

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Techniques found 2

Topics 3

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What happened

Jury tosses Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman The jury ruled that Musk waited too long to sue and found Altman, co-founder Greg Brockman and OpenAI not liable on all claims.

Why it matters

— A federal jury found Monday that tech billionaire Elon Musk waited too long to bring his lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others, throwing out … NBC News flipped this story into Top Stories•16h Related storyboards

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The clearest point to anchor on is this: Hackers linked to Iran believed to have hit gas stations across the US.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Hackers linked to Iran believed to have hit gas stations across the US”

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Multiple sources, including CNN (via al.com) and other web reports, state that US officials believe Iranian hackers breached gas station tank gauge systems across multiple states.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Relations between Iran and the United States in modern-day are unsettled and have a troubled history. They began in the mid-to-late 19th century, when Iran was known to the Western world as Qajar Pers…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–United_States_relations

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Iranian government interfered in the 2024 United States elections through social media efforts and hacking operations. Iranian interference came amidst larger foreign interference in the 2024 Unit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_interference_in_the_20…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Handala Hack Team is a hacktivist group supposedly operating from Iran that runs cyberattacks against U.S. and Israeli organizations. It has released personal documents and emails from thousands o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handala_Hack_Team

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Claim 2: “A federal jury found Monday that tech billionaire Elon Musk waited too long to bring his lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others”

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Multiple web search results explicitly state that a federal jury ruled on a Monday that Musk waited too long to bring his lawsuit against Sam Altman and others.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — International Workers' Day, also called Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers, the labour movement and the working class that is marked every yea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers'_Day

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On June 6, 2025, protests began in Los Angeles after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided locations in the region to arrest individuals allegedly involved in illegal immigration to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2025_Los_Angeles_protests…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Reid Garrett Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is an American Internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster, and author. Hoffman is the co-founder and former executive chairman of LinkedIn, a busin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_Hoffman

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Claim 3: “Jury tosses Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman”

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Multiple independent sources, including BBC News and Flipboard, confirm that a California jury tossed out Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Musk v. Altman was a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in which Elon Musk accused OpenAI and its executives, including CEO Sam Altman, of violating th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_v._Altman

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's board of directors ousted co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman. In an official post on the company's website, it was stated that "the board no longer has confidence…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Sam_Altman_from_Ope…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019. Altman attended Stanford…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman

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Claim 4: “Elon Musk’s xAI recently offered employees payments of $420 to hand over their completed tax returns for use in”

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Multiple web search results citing a Bloomberg report confirm that xAI offered employees $420 to provide their tax returns for training the Grok chatbot.

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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk’s xAI asked employees earlier this year to offer up their own tax returns as training data for the company’s Grok chatbot, promising a $420 payment as incentive for doing so. Two months late…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-18/musk-s-xa…

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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk’s xAI recently offered employees payments of $420 to hand over their completed tax returns for use in training Grok, according to a new report from Bloomberg. But that same report notes empl…
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-offered-to-pay-employees-for-t…

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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk owes a bunch of xAI employees $420, according to a report by Bloomberg. The CEO reportedly promised employees earlier this year he would pony up that amount of money if they offered up their…
https://www.engadget.com/2175582/elon-musk-reportedly-owes-q…

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Claim 5: “Musk slams Altman trial verdict as a 'technicality,' vows to appeal”

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Multiple web search results confirm that Elon Musk referred to the verdict as a 'calendar technicality' and stated his intention to appeal on X.

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web search NEUTRAL — Musk Calls OpenAI Verdict a Technicality After Jury Rejects His Case. Musk called the OpenAI verdict a calendar technicality. The court only decided timing, but the trial record left a sharper busines…
https://www.implicator.ai/musk-calls-openai-verdict-a-techni…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jury tosses Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman.Musk said on X several hours after the verdict was read that he would file an appeal, writing, “the judge & jury never actually ruled on t…
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-elon-musk-case…

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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk vowed to appeal after a major loss in a California court. On Monday, a jury sided against Musk in his blockbuster suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman. Musk downplayed the ruling as based "jus…
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-appeal-lawsuit-ope…

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Claim 6: “Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appears to have gotten into a tussle during the president’s tumultuous trip to China.”

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The claim appears in one specific web search result ('Swaggering MAGA Treasury Goon...'), but other results discuss the trip or the person without confirming a 'tussle'. The evidence is not corroborated by independent mainstream news organizations.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent ( BESS-ənt; born August 21, 1962) is an American businessman, financial analyst, and government official serving since 2025 as the 79th United States secretary of the treas…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bessent v. Dellinger was a 2025 case in which lawyer Hampton Dellinger challenged his firing from the United States Office of Special Counsel. On February 12, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Dis…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From 13 to 15 May 2026, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, made a state visit to China. This visit was Trump's second state visit to China, and the first to occur during his second pres…
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Claim 7: “The jury ruled that Musk waited too long to sue and found Altman, co-founder Greg Brockman and OpenAI not liable on all claims.”

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Multiple web search results (IBTimes UK, Jacob Shamsian/News source) and Flipboard confirm the jury ruled Musk waited too long to sue and found Altman, Brockman, and OpenAI not liable.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gregory Brockman (born November 29, 1987) is an American entrepreneur and software engineer. He is co-founder and president of OpenAI. He began his career at Stripe in 2010, upon leaving MIT, and beca…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Brockman

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The legal affairs of Elon Musk encompass the legal cases involving Elon Musk as the plaintiff, defendant, or concerning his companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Elon_Musk

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