Elon Musk testified in his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman as the trial probed the lab's nonprofit roots.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear Stephen Thaler's appeal in Thaler v. Perlmutter, definitively upholding the DC Circuit's ruling that AI systems cannot be recognized as authors under the 1976 Copyright Act. The decision closes the door on Thaler's years-long effort to secure copyright protection for artwork autonomously generated by his 'Creativity Machine' AI, reinforcing that human authorship remains a bedrock legal requirement for intellectual property protection.