Altman Versus Musk: How the Biggest Feud In Tech Landed in Court

At every point in the tech industry’s evolution, chief executives have found some reason to fall out. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs clashed during the early scramble to dominate personal computing. Jobs felt betrayed by Eric Schmidt when Google launched Android to compete with the iPhone. And Elon Musk famously challenged Mark Zuckerberg to a cage match that never happened.

Even by those standards, the clash between Musk and Sam Altman stands out. The world’s richest person has used every tool at his disposal to undermine Altman’s leadership at OpenAI, the company they founded together more than a decade ago. ...