Elon Musk's ongoing legal battle with OpenAI and the artificial intelligence (AI) company's CEO, Sam Altman, escalates with Musk adding Microsoft (MSFT) and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman to the suit. Musk alleges OpenAI and early leaders conspired to defraud him by putting commercial interests before the public good. Cornell Tech Policy Institute Director Sarah Kreps joins Brad Smith and Madison Mills on Catalysts to provide an overview of the lawsuit and how Musk's new role in Trump's White House affects the case.

"The lawsuit is interesting in itself, and I think is emblematic of a lot of the complications and complexities of these issues," Kreps says, adding, "In this case with Microsoft and Elon Musk's concern about antitrust, I found [it] very interesting that he was adding Microsoft to this lawsuit in the sense that Microsoft is good at a lot of things. but one of the things that's probably best at is defending against antitrust [allegations]. It has a lot of experience from the 1990s and early 2000s. But it certainly seems peculiar now, or not surprising given that OpenAI is worth about $157 billion, that Musk wants to get in on that action. But his role in the White House and his influence, I think, will complicate things considerably."

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This post was written by Naomi Buchanan.