The battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman highlights a larger debate surrounding the ethical direction of AI development. Since Musk’s departure from OpenAI, Tesla’s

Musk dropped the lawsuit but filed another one against Altman and OpenAI, this time elevating his accusations to claim OpenAI worked with Microsoft, an investor, to create a monopoly. The billionaire also alleged the company violated its founding claim as a nonprofit by pursuing profit. OpenAI has denied the allegations.

Here's what you need to know this week about artificial intelligence in the Bay Area: Musk pushes for OpenAI auction, Altman sued by sister, Anthropic partially settles lawsuit with music publishers,

AlexNet, created by Alex Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton, used a deep convolutional neural network (CNN)—a powerful new type of computer program—to recognize images far more accurately than ever, kick-starting major progress in AI.

The OpenAI CEO said he is willing to work with the incoming administration to ensure the continued advancement of AI.

Democrats accused the OpenAI CEO and other Big Tech CEOs of an "effort to influence and sway the actions and policies" of the incoming administration.

In his letter, Musk’s lawyer pushed the attorneys general to allow outside investors to bid for the nonprofit’s stake in OpenAI. If successful, that could allow an outside investor to take a significant position in, and to exercise control over, the start-up.

The world’s three richest men will be among the Big Tech CEOs sitting on the dais Monday as Donald Trump is sworn in for a second term. Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person, took an unprecedented,

High-profile tech billionaires, including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk will sit front and center at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

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Elon Musk has been testing the limits of his political influence ever since Trump was elected, but he may stop short of using the full force of the White House.