Inside the Courtroom Battle Between Elon Musk and OpenAI

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[upbeat music] Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, May 5th. I'm Peter Ciampelli for the Wall Street Journal. After almost a decade of swinging between hype, disappointment, and back, autonomous taxis are finally hitting the streets across the US. But which companies are winning the robotaxi race? We're going under the hood. And then, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, two titans of tech, were once friends, but last week they were facing off in federal court. Musk is suing OpenAI, saying the company, quote, "stole a charity." We'll unpack those allegations and break down what might happen next in this blockbuster trial. But first, self-driving taxis have been the focus of dozens of tech startups and have attracted billions of dollars of investment over the last decade. The path to getting them on the road has been long and winding, but the future these companies promised might finally be here. Morgan Stanley estimates about half of the American population will have