Musk Resurfaces Altman’s Anti-Trump Tweets Ahead of AI Legal Showdown

Elon Musk just weaponized the archive—digging up old tweets where OpenAI’s Sam Altman trashed Trump. Timing? Suspiciously convenient as their AI patent battle heats up.

Nothing like a little political mudslinging to distract from the real fight: who controls the future of generative AI. Bonus points for Musk’s flair for drama—Wall Street’s algorithms are probably placing bets on this feud as we speak.

Elon Musk to go ahead with the fight against OpenAI

After Elon Musk, Meta, and others fought against it, OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor said the company gave up on its plan to change from a nonprofit to a for-profit business. However, Musk plans to proceed with his highly watched lawsuit against OpenAI.

Under OpenAI’s newly proposed plan, its non-profit parent would continue to control the for-profit business and become a major shareholder. Musk’s lawyer said the announcement did not clarify important details about the claimed “non-profit control” arrangement.

On the other hand, OpenAI said,  “Elon continuing with his baseless lawsuit only proves that it was always a bad-faith attempt to slow us down.”  OpenAI sued Musk back in April, and the company said Musk was trying to hurt its image and relationships with investors and customers on purpose. 

A federal judge in Oakland has set a trial for March 2026 between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. It will be a very important fight over the future of AI ethics, nonprofit governance, and corporate responsibility.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman claimed none of the outside pressure mattered. “We’re all obsessed with our mission. You’re all obsessed with Elon,” he said.

Sam Altman asks US lawmakers not to make rules that can slow down US AI

Other than Musk’s fight, Altman is fighting another fight. He said America’s AI efforts shouldn’t be slowed down by rules that aren’t thought through. He said this on Capitol Hill. The hearing was about beating China to become the world leader in AI. 

When asked by Sen. Ted Cruz asked Altman how close China is to being as good at AI as the U.S. He said, “It’s hard to say how far ahead we are, but I would say not a huge amount of time.” 

He said he thought OpenAI, Google, and other models were the best models in the world. But he also said that to keep winning, we would need “sensible regulation” that “does not slow the US down. However, China’s Alibaba said that its Qwen3 is better than OpenAI’s o3.

Altman also said that the American spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship is special. He advised that for now, the US should only do the things that have worked in the past and not mess up.

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