Judge Strikes Some Defenses, Complains Of ‘Gamesmanship’ In Musk-Altman Battle

( July 31, 2025, 4:05 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk and Samuel Altman are participating in “gamesmanship” in their litigation against each other, a federal judge in California said in declining to wade through the “excessive affirmative defenses” and an overreaching motion to strike them and instead eliminating only the 16 “clearly immaterial” ones....