Elon Musk

There's no shortage of bad blood between the once-allied tech titans as their bitter dispute over OpenAI's for-profit future is expected to go to trial later this year. "You can only have one emperor,

Underlying the personal feud is Musk's legal challenge to OpenAI, which threatens to slow the company's efforts at a time when the AI race is heating up.

Musk bid for OpenAI at $97.4 billion in February to gain control over the nonprofit assets because he thinks the company is taking a "dangerous direction" and it's important to "return to the open-source safety-focused force for good it once was."

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved from a futuristic concept into a defining force shaping industries, economies, and societies. At

In wide-ranging comments over videocall, Musk said the Trump Administration needs to "delete entire agencies."

Ownership of the non-profit side of the business could give a Musk-led group a significant stake in the for-profit company.

At the heart of the dispute is a 2017 internal power struggle at the fledgling startup that led to Altman becoming OpenAI's CEO.

Despite disappointing earnings, Elon Musk doubled down on Tesla's futuristic ventures like AI, robotics and fully autonomous vehicles.