Odaily Planet Daily News - Lawyers for Elon Musk have filed a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders, and its investors and close partner Microsoft, to prevent OpenAI and other specified defendants from engaging in anti-competitive behavior. The injunction motion was submitted late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, Microsoft, LinkedIn co-founder and former OpenAI board member Reid Hoffman, and former OpenAI board member and Microsoft Vice President Dee Templeton of engaging in various illegal activities and seeking to halt these activities. The allegations include: preventing investors from supporting OpenAI's competitors, such as Musk's AI company xAI; benefiting from “illegally obtained competitive sensitive information” through the relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft; transforming OpenAI's governance structure into a for-profit structure, and “transferring any material assets, including intellectual property owned, held, or controlled by OpenAI, Inc., its subsidiaries or affiliates”; forcing OpenAI to conduct business with organizations that have “significant economic interests” in any defendant; Musk's lawyers claim that if the injunction is not granted, it will cause “irreparable harm.” Musk previously argued in lawsuits that he was defrauded of more than $44 million, stating that the funds he donated to OpenAI were all used to leverage his “well-known concerns about the dangers of artificial intelligence.” Musk is one of the co-founders of OpenAI, and he left the company in 2018 due to disagreements over the direction of the company. (TechCrunch)