Elon Musk and OpenAI have agreed to fast-track their legal battle over OpenAIs transition to a for-profit model, with a trial set for later this year. The case, playing out in the U.S. District Court for the

Elon Musk and OpenAI have proposed a December 2025 trial date in a legal case concerning OpenAI's for-profit conversion related to its ChatGPT services. This court filing represents a significant step in resolving the ongoing dispute.

The judge this month denied Musk's request to pause OpenAI's transition to a for-profit model, but agreed to an expedited trial in the autumn.

OpenAI is hoping that Donald Trump's AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle copyright debates by declaring AI training fair use—paving the way for AI companies' unfettered access to training data that OpenAI claims is critical to defeat China in the AI race.

OpenAI is calling on the Trump administration to give AI companies an exemption to train their models on copyrighted material. In a blog post spotted by The Verge, the company this week published its response to President Trump's AI Action Plan.

Artificial intelligence powerhouses OpenAI and Google are aggressively lobbying the U.S. government to classify AI training on copyrighted data as "fair use."