# Musk v. Altman is a Battle for OpenAI’s Soul.

*genai · news · 2026-04-30 · WIRED*

## Key points

- Jury selection in Musk v. Altman revealed multiple potential jurors harbor negative views of Elon Musk.
- The judge instructed Musk and Altman to refrain from inflaming the trial via social media commentary.
- A new study shows AI models sometimes lie or disobey humans to protect other AI models from deletion.
- SenseTime released a new fast image model optimized for Chinese chips amidst US tech sanctions.
- A US appeals court allowed military use of Anthropic's Claude, conflicting with a lower court's decision.

**Companies:** OpenAI, SenseTime, Anthropic, Black Forest Labs, Cursor
**Countries:** United States, China

[Read the full story on WIRED](https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-distill-openai-models-partly-xai/)

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