Elon Musk privately messages and threatens OpenAI CEO before court: "Make you the most hated person in America by the end of this week"

According to Beating Monitoring, OpenAI CEO Greg Brockman disclosed in the latest court filing that Musk sent private messages on the eve of the hearing, threatening to ruin their reputations. While discussing the possibility of settlement, Brockman suggested that both sides withdraw their respective allegations. Musk then refused and replied: “Before this weekend, you and Sam will become the most hated people in the United States. If you insist, then it will be as you wish.”

Because the contents of settlement negotiations are typically not admissible, and OpenAI’s lawyers did not raise objections in a timely manner when Musk testified in court last week, the presiding judge, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, denied the request to admit this information as evidence. Brockman is expected to testify on Monday.

In the first week of the trial, Musk’s legal team used Brockman’s private diary entries from nearly ten years ago as key evidence. In the diary, Brockman had asked himself, “Financially, what can make me earn 1 billion dollars?” and recorded that if he promised to maintain a non-profit model while planning a profit-oriented transition, it would be “a lie.” OpenAI’s lawyers countered that these statements were taken out of context, obscuring the background of brainstorming during the company’s early days when it was extremely short of funds. This lawsuit was brought by Musk, seeking hundreds of billions of dollars in damages, the removal of Altman and Brockman, and the revocation of the profit-oriented restructuring of OpenAI that was completed last October.