India, May 19 -- A nine-member bench in Oakland, California, on Monday threw out SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk's high-profile lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming mistreatment by OpenAI's founders. In a unanimous verdict, the bench ruled that the tech billionaire's claims were filed well past the legal deadline and declared Altman, OpenAI and its president, Greg Brockman, not liable for Elon Musk's claims.

Musk had accused Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Microsoft, and OpenAI of effectively "stealing a charity" by pivoting the frontier artificial intelligence lab toward a highly lucrative, for-profit commercial affiliate. However, the jury determined that any alleged harms or breaches of contract Musk experienced occurred long before the legal w...