Elon Musk’s long-awaited courtroom battle with Sam Altman poised to spill Silicon Valley dirt

A long-anticipated courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman kicked off in California Monday — and the legal brawl is poised to spill mounds of inside gossip and dirty laundry from Silicon Valley in the weeks ahead.

In addition to Musk and Altman, witnesses in the case — in which Musk has accused Altman’s OpenAI of breaking a pledge to share its technology openly as a nonprofit — include Shivon Zilis, who has been accused of spying on OpenAI as a former board member, even as she carried on a romance with Musk.

Among the evidence that OpenAI has cited is a text exchange between Musk and Zilis just before he quit OpenAI’s board in 2018. Zilis, who has borne several of Musk’s children, asked him whether she should stay “close and friendly” with OpenAI to “keep info flowing.”

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