{"id":805,"date":"2026-05-11T22:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=805"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:40:29","slug":"a-consistent-pattern-of-lying-musk-v-openai-trial-exposes-what-insiders-think-of-sam-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A consistent pattern of lying\u2019: Musk v OpenAI trial exposes what insiders think of Sam Altman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trial has exposed even more details about OpenAI\u2019s fractious corporate past than previously documented<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI, despite its name, is usually extremely secretive about its operations. It promotes a carefully crafted image to the world. Over the course of Elon Musk\u2019s case against the startup and its CEO Sam Altman, however, the artificial intelligence firm has been forced to publicly contend with some of the messiest parts of its rise to power in public.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/09\/elon-musk-sam-altman-openai-trial\">Musk v OpenAI trial<\/a>, which on Monday entered its third week, has featured a who\u2019s who of Silicon Valley testifying about OpenAI\u2019s past and its CEO\u2019s contentious leadership. Musk\u2019s attorneys have used former executives, private text messages, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/05\/openai-president-personal-diary-musk-altman-case\">diary entries<\/a> and internal email exchanges to portray Altman as untrustworthy. Altman, who denies Musk\u2019s allegations, will take the stand in the coming days. OpenAI has likewise issued denials.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/11\/musk-v-openai-altman-trial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial has exposed even more details about OpenAI\u2019s fractious corporate past than previously documented OpenAI, despite its name, is usually extremely secretive about its operations. It promotes a carefully &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=805\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}