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The jury’s quick rejection of Elon Musk’s suit against OpenAI’s founders and Microsoft underscored a simple outcome: the court did not find merit in his claim that co-founders misused charitable donations. What emerged from the trial record, however, was an unexpected counterpoint — testimony and documents pointed to episodes in which Musk and his companies gained from OpenAI’s work, complicating his narrative that he alone had been wronged. During closing arguments, lawyers