April 30, 2026, 3:32 p.m. ET OAKLAND, Calif. — The judge running the bombshell trial over the future of OpenAI has apparently had it with Elon Musk’s favorite line of the last three days – “You just can’t steal from a charity” – at one point reminding Musk that he was “not a lawyer.” “We’ve heard that often,” US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers told the tech titan, drawing some snickers from the packed courtroom. She struck the phrase from the record and told Musk to “Please try to respond to the specific questions.” Musk has repeatedly recited variations of the phrase while being hammered by artificial-intelligence giant OpenAI’s lawyer William Savitt during cross-examination, which continued into its second day on Thursday. Elon Musk arrives to court at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building on April 30, 2026 in Oakland, California. Getty Images After Musk retook the stand, Savitt went straight to needling Musk on a term sheet document that laid out OpenAI’s corporate founding that appeared to show the for-profit entity was well-documented. Musk’s lawsuit alleges that OpenAI betrayed its altruistic mission in pursuit of profit. Meanwhile, Musk acknowledged there was no written contract with OpenAI detailing the terms of his donation to the company to get OpenAI off the ground as a nonprofit research organization. Explore More