A California federal judge on Tuesday rejected Tesla founder and billionaire Elon Musk’s bid to block OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft, but said she could expedite a trial later this fall to address the “core claims” of Musk’s ongoing litigation against OpenAI.
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who presides in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, denied Musk’s request for a preliminary injunction filed in December 2024, ruling that “plaintiffs have failed to meet their burden of proof for the extraordinary relief requested” and that the plaintiffs failed to show that their antitrust claims were likely to succeed on the merits.