The Musk vs Altman trial starts Monday. Here is what nobody is telling you
Burning Man in 2017. A $1B diary entry. A mother of 4 kids on the board. Zuckerberg texting Musk for favors. The full dossier from the court filings nobody has time to read.
On Monday, April 27, 2026, Elon Musk and Sam Altman walk into a federal courtroom in Oakland, California
The case everyone has been arguing about for two years finally goes to trial. Musk alleges that Altman and Greg Brockman betrayed OpenAI’s founding nonprofit mission to enrich themselves. Altman alleges Musk is trying to kneecap a competitor to xAI. The judge will decide who is right.
That headline is what the mainstream press will cover.
The more interesting story is in the hundreds of court filings that dropped in the 6 months leading up to the trial. Cringey texts. Private diary entries. Depositions about rhino ketamine at Burning Man. Zuckerberg privately offering Musk favors. A board member who was secretly the mother of four of Musk’s children.
Most of it has never been covered in full. Most people reading about this trial on Monday will have no idea what is actually in the record.
This is the dossier.
“We are about to witness the landing of the Hindenburg on the deck of the Titanic. We know it’s going to be crazy and nasty.”
Andrew Stoltmann, corporate litigation lawyer, on the Musk vs Altman trial
What is inside the full dossier:
▫️ The Burning Man 2017 timeline: what the judge ruled is fair game and what got excluded
▫️ Shivon Zilis: the OpenAI board member who was secretly the mother of 4 of Musk’s children, and the text messages that show her feeding information back to him
▫️ Greg Brockman’s private diary: the “$1B” entry that sits at the heart of Musk’s case, plus the other excerpt that complicates Musk’s narrative
▫️ The Mark Zuckerberg texts: Meta’s CEO privately offering Musk help with DOGE coverage and a joint bid for OpenAI IP
▫️ The Bezos “tool” email and why it matters for the SpaceX IPO narrative now
▫️ The Altman flattery messages: “my hero” and the strategic silence around founding photos
▫️ What the trial outcome could actually change, and what it cannot
▫️ Why the timing of the SpaceX-Cursor deal matters more than anyone is saying
Everything sourced from the court record. Nothing speculative.
THE FULL DOSSIER
Court record. Deposition transcripts. Private diary entries. Everything that drops in a federal courtroom on Monday:
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