Dozens of pages of correspondence between Elon Musk, Sam Altman and other OpenAI founders show how the conflict over control of the company is years old.

Elon Musk’s second lawsuit against OpenAI, which he had contributed more than $50 million to, may not be the company’s biggest problem. A much bigger threat comes from government regulation since it has more power than the future trillionaire.

Musk released these emails and others last week as part of a lawsuit he’s filed against OpenAI and Microsoft. They are ostensibly meant to demonstrate an anticompetitive partner

Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in August — and he just amended it to include Microsoft as a defendant.

After joining with Mr. Musk to create OpenAI in 2015 and pledging to carefully develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity, the suit claimed, Mr. Altman and Mr. Brockman abandoned this mission by entering its multibillion-dollar partnership with Microsoft.

Elon Musk has updated his fraud, breach of contract, and racketeering lawsuit against OpenAI to make antitrust claims against Microsoft, accusing the two companies of attempting to “monopolize the generative AI market.

Elon Musk's emails to OpenAI exposes early tensions, talent wars, and shifts from the nonprofit vision for AI development.