Elon Musk amends OpenAI lawsuit to redirect all damages to the OpenAI nonprofit arm after a judge blocked his $134B personal damages claim

Elon Musk amended his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, dropping his claim to any personal financial damages and instead seeking to return all ill-gotten gains to OpenAI's charitable nonprofit arm, with his lawyer saying Musk “is not seeking a single dollar for himself.” The pivot came after U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers denied Musk's request for punitive damages and ruled that his expert's $134B disgorgement calculation did not support his legal arguments, effectively forcing a change in strategy ahead of a trial expected to start this month. Beyond redirecting damages, Musk is seeking to unwind OpenAI's for-profit conversion entirely, permanently bar future corporate transactions that conflict with its nonprofit founding charter, and remove Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman from their roles at the company.