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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified in the Musk vs. OpenAI trial, which will determine whether OpenAI continues as a for-profit entity or reverts to nonprofit status. OpenAI filed court documents alleging Musk threatened to make Altman and Brockman 'the most hated men in America' when Brockman proposed both sides drop claims. The trial's outcome will set a legal and structural precedent for how the world's most influential AI lab balances commercial ambition with its founding public-interest mission.

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