OPENAI BACKTRACKS ON PLANS TO DROP NONPROFIT CONTROL

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OpenAI announced its restructuring as a public benefit corporation with the nonprofit that controls it remaining its largest shareholder. This reverses earlier plans to shift control to investors, which had drawn criticism from Elon Musk (who sued the company) and regulatory scrutiny from California and Delaware attorneys general. While Sam Altman called the change a "more understandable structure," Musk's lawyer dismissed it as a "transparent dodge" that still betrays the company's mission.