OAKLAND, CA., 5/7/26 — At the federal courthouse in Oakland Wednesday — the seventh day in the trial of Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI — the jury heard the testimony of Shivon Zilis, a former OpenAI board member with a close and complicated relationship with Musk.
Zilis provided testimony about her service as a board member of OpenAI and her role during a critical six-week period when the founders who created OpenAI as a nonprofit corporation considered a variety of alternative structures to raise money.
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