Datasets
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A collection of datasets we develop through our journalistic pursuits, generally corpuses of documents that have been parsed and organized • 2 items • Updated
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DX-1017 | DX 1017 | Defense | Text messages | Day 8 (May 6, 2026) | 2026-05-06T14:57:00 | Morrison Foerster | 3 | 115,664 | DX-1017.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1017.pdf | # DX 1017 — Feb 25, 2023 Zilis → friend "Have to resign openai board btw / E's effort has become well known"
> Shivon Zilis's February 25, 2023 text exchange with a friend (handle "Shahini Rubicon Fluffer") on the day Sam Altman called her to tell her she had to leave the OpenAI board because **"the father of your bab... | null | null | null |
DX-1025 | DX 1025 | Defendants | Tweet | Day 3 (April 29, 2026) | 2026-04-29T15:39:12 | Morrison Foerster | 1 | 539,648 | DX-1025.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1025.pdf | # DX 1025 — Mar 15, 2023 Musk tweet: "I'm still confused as to how a non-profit to which I donated ~$100M somehow became a $30B market cap for-profit. If this is legal, why doesn't everyone do it?"
> A single Twitter / X post by @elonmusk dated 12:49 PM PT on March 15, 2023 — eight months before Musk would file the or... | null | null | null |
DX-1040 | DX 1040 | Defense | Press release | unknown | null | null | 2 | 502,469 | DX-1040.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1040.pdf | # DX 1040 — OpenAI's November 17, 2023 firing announcement ("OpenAI announces leadership transition")
> **The official OpenAI press release** announcing Sam Altman's removal as CEO, dated **November 17, 2023**. The line that ricocheted around the world: Altman "**was not consistently candid in his communications with ... | OPENAI_MUSK00039061-39062 | null | null |
DX-1046 | DX 1046 | Defense (OpenAI/MS) | Letter | Day 8 (May 6, 2026) | 2026-05-06T14:57:01 | OpenAI startup-fund defense firm | 15 | 910,320 | DX-1046.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1046.pdf | # DX 1046 — November 2023 OpenAI employee letter to the board ("unless all current board members resign")
> The mass-signed November 2023 OpenAI employee letter demanding the board resign and reinstate Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, threatening to decamp to Microsoft's newly announced subsidiary — the contemporaneous r... | null | null | null |
DX-1048 | DX 1048 | Defense | Text messages | Day 8 (May 6, 2026) | 2026-05-06T14:57:03 | Morrison Foerster | 5 | 193,207 | DX-1048.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1048.pdf | # DX 1048 — Mira Murati ↔ Satya Nadella iMessage thread, Nov 17–21, 2023 (defense-marked twin of PX 306)
> The same November 17–21, 2023 Murati ↔ Nadella text thread that plaintiffs introduced as **PX 306** — re-marked here as a defense exhibit (DX 1048). Five pages of iMessages spanning the four days of the Sam Altma... | null | null | null |
DX-1049 | DX 1049 | Defense | Slack messages | unknown | null | null | 2 | 2,113,811 | DX-1049.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1049.pdf | # DX 1049 — Helen Toner @channel Slack message announcing Emmett Shear as interim CEO (Nov 20, 2023, 1:42 AM UTC)
> **The board's all-hands Slack message** sent at **1:42 AM UTC on November 20, 2023** (i.e., late Sunday night Pacific) — **three days after the firing**, after the weekend back-and-forth on Altman's poss... | SUTSKEVER_MUSKSUB_00000525-526 | PX 319 | null |
DX-1083 | DX 1083 | Defense | Text messages | Day 4 (April 30, 2026) | 2026-04-30T15:13:15 | Morrison Foerster | 2 | 96,014 | DX-1083.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1083.pdf | # DX 1083 — Dec 13, 2024 Zuckerberg → Musk, "Meta sent a letter to the California AG supporting your lawsuit"
> A two-page, three-message text exchange between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk on December 13, 2024 — Zuckerberg giving Musk a heads-up that "**Meta sent a letter to the California AG supporting your lawsuit ... | null | null | null |
DX-1092 | DX 1092 | Defense | Email thread | Off-day catch-up upload (uploaded 2026-05-02) | 2026-05-02T09:41:20 | Morrison Foerster | 2 | 455,477 | DX-1092.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1092.pdf | # DX 1092 — Nov 2017 Pioneer Building security & access controls quotes (Birchall ↔ Clark ↔ Zilis)
> Three-message thread (Nov 22 – Nov 29, 2017) between Chris Clark (OpenAI), Jared Birchall (Musk Foundation/Excession), and Shivon Zilis on **Pioneer Building security guard quotes** (Bannerman, Security Industry Specia... | null | null | null |
DX-1145 | DX 1145 | Defense | Tweet thread | Day 8 (May 6, 2026) | 2026-05-06T14:57:03 | Morrison Foerster | 2 | 827,673 | DX-1145.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1145.pdf | # DX-1145 — Feb 17, 2023 Musk tweet: "closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft"
> Musk's February 17, 2023 quote-tweet declaring OpenAI had become "a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft" — "Not what I intended at all" — defense's anchor for an SOL ... | null | null | null |
DX-1156 | DX 1156 | Defense | Text messages | Day 4 (April 30, 2026) | 2026-04-30T15:13:15 | Morrison Foerster | 2 | 90,555 | DX-1156.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1156.pdf | # DX 1156 — Feb 3, 2025 Musk → Zuckerberg "bidding on the OpenAI IP" texts
> A two-page, 6-message text exchange on February 3, 2025 in which Elon Musk asks Mark Zuckerberg, "**Are you open to the idea of bidding on the OpenAI IP with me and some others?**" — and Zuckerberg replies "**Want to discuss live?**" before M... | null | null | null |
DX-1157 | DX 1157 | Defense | Letter (letter of intent) | Day 4 (April 30, 2026) | 2026-04-30T15:13:20 | Morrison Foerster | 4 | 1,652,920 | DX-1157.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1157.pdf | # DX 1157 — Feb 10, 2025 Toberoff $97.375B Letter of Intent to acquire all assets of OpenAI, Inc.
> The signed February 10, 2025 Letter of Intent on Toberoff & Associates letterhead, addressed to OpenAI's eight directors, in which a buyer consortium led by **X.AI Corp.** (Elon Musk, CEO) — and including Baron Capital,... | null | null | null |
DX-1201 | DX 1201 | Defendants | Demonstrative | Day 6 (May 4, 2026) | 2026-05-04T14:32:18 | Morrison Foerster | 1 | 844,288 | DX-1201.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1201.pdf | # DX 1201 — Photograph: Early OpenAI working session in a residential setting (likely Brockman's apartment, 2015–2016)
> A single photograph admitted as a Day 6 demonstrative during Russell direct / Brockman cross. The image shows roughly six people at a long table in what appears to be a residential loft / apartment ... | null | null | null |
DX-1203 | DX 1203 | Defense (OpenAI/MS) | Demonstrative | Day 7 (May 5, 2026) | 2026-05-05T14:27:02 | OpenAI startup-fund defense firm | 1 | 1,166,689 | DX-1203.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1203.pdf | # DX 1203 — Brockman group selfie with OpenAI employees
> A single full-page color photograph: Greg Brockman in the foreground taking a selfie with a large, smiling group of OpenAI employees in an office common area — the defense's humanizing demonstrative used on Brockman's Day 7 direct.
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DX-1204 | DX 1204 | Defense | Demonstrative | Day 7 (May 5, 2026) | 2026-05-05T14:27:02 | Morrison Foerster | 1 | 1,011,022 | DX-1204.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1204.pdf | # DX 1204 — Group selfie photograph (OpenAI conference room) — Brockman defense direct demonstrative
> A single high-resolution **group selfie photograph** taken in an OpenAI conference room — used as a defense demonstrative on Day 7 during Brockman's defense direct, almost certainly to humanize Brockman (the photogra... | null | null | null |
DX-1205 | DX 1205 | Defense | Demonstrative | Day 7 (May 5, 2026) | 2026-05-05T14:27:02 | Morrison Foerster | 1 | 858,125 | DX-1205.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1205.pdf | # DX 1205 — Photograph of Greg Brockman with Ilya Sutskever (Sutskever's animal-painting wall)
> A single full-page color photograph, used as a defense direct demonstrative on Day 7 — two men standing arm-around-shoulders, smiling, in front of a wall of Ilya Sutskever's hand-painted animal canvases (tiger, hippo, slot... | null | null | null |
DX-1256 | DX 1256 | Defense | Compendium / multi-doc | Day 4 (April 30, 2026) | 2026-04-30T15:13:31 | Morrison Foerster | 282 | 17,753,947 | DX-1256.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1256.pdf | # DX 1256 — Fidelity Charitable Policy Guidelines compendium (2017–2020)
> A 282-page compendium of seven successive editions of the **Fidelity Charitable Program Circular / Policy Guidelines** (last-updated July 2017, March 2018, June 2018, July 2018, October 2018, August 2019, March 2020, August 2020) — the governin... | null | null | null |
DX-1284 | DX 1284 | Defense | Contract | Day 4 (April 30, 2026) | 2026-04-30T15:13:20 | Morrison Foerster | 8 | 938,972 | DX-1284.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1284.pdf | # DX-1284 — July 2014 Vanguard Charitable Gift Agreement establishing "The Musk Charitable Fund" (DAF)
> The Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program "Gift agreement for individuals or trusts" creating Musk's donor-advised fund — the vehicle through which the bulk of Musk's OpenAI contributions were channeled, signed by ... | null | null | null |
DX-1285 | DX 1285 | Defense | Donor-advised-fund policies booklet (compilation) | Day 4 (April 30, 2026) | 2026-04-30T15:13:26 | Morrison Foerster | 149 | 8,926,098 | DX-1285.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1285.pdf | # DX 1285 — Vanguard Charitable Policies and Guidelines (2014–2017)
> A 149-page compilation of four annual editions of the **Vanguard Charitable Policies and Guidelines** booklet (versions effective in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017) — defense's documentary foundation for arguing that grants Musk made through his Vanguar... | null | null | null |
DX-1290 | DX 1290 | Defense | Text messages | Day 8 (May 6, 2026) | 2026-05-06T14:57:02 | Morrison Foerster | 2 | 88,345 | DX-1290.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1290.pdf | # DX 1290 — Nov 17, 2023 Zilis → Altman supportive text on the day of his firing
> Shivon Zilis's brief 6:21 PM (UTC) text to Sam Altman on November 17, 2023 — the day the OpenAI nonprofit board fired him — saying "**I just wanted to say I hope you are ok. I have no idea what's going on but you've been an awesome pers... | null | null | null |
DX-1291 | DX 1291 | Defendants | Text messages | Day 8 (May 6, 2026) | 2026-05-06T14:57:09 | Morrison Foerster | 7 | 1,572,864 | DX-1291.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1291.pdf | # DX 1291 — July 12, 2017 Brockman-Zilis chat: "Btw do you think they'd go for reverse merger?" / "We just need him to want more than a billion dollar exit"
> A 94-message single-day chat thread (G2BBBW chat group, four participants) between Greg Brockman and Shivon Zilis on July 12, 2017 — six weeks before Brockman's... | null | null | null |
DX-1293 | DX 1293 | Defense (OpenAI/MS) | Stipulation | Day 3 (April 29, 2026) | 2026-04-29T15:37:12 | OpenAI startup-fund defense firm | 11 | 527,220 | DX-1293.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1293.pdf | # DX 1293 — Joint stipulation of undisputed facts (Musk v. Altman)
> The parties' 56-paragraph joint stipulation of undisputed facts — the master skeleton of OpenAI's corporate history, the contribution ledger, the board roster, the Microsoft rounds, and the recapitalization timeline that frames every other exhibit in... | null | null | null |
DX-1444 | DX 1444 | Defense | Tweet | Day 3 (April 29, 2026) | 2026-04-29T15:37:43 | Morrison Foerster | 1 | 376,127 | DX-1444.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-1444.pdf | # DX 1444 — March 4, 2026 Elon Musk tweet: "Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI and probably the first to make it in humanoid/atom-shaping form"
> Musk's **eight-week-pre-trial** tweet — March 4, 2026, six weeks before opening statements — staking Tesla's claim to be "one of the companies to make AGI" and "... | null | null | null |
DX-502 | DX 502 | Defense | Email thread | Day 4 (April 30, 2026) | 2026-04-30T15:13:20 | Morrison Foerster | 3 | 251,138 | DX-502.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-502.pdf | # DX 502 — June 24, 2015 Altman → Musk "AI lab" five-point email + Musk's "Agree on all" reply
> The earliest known full-prose pitch for what would become OpenAI: Sam Altman's June 24, 2015 numbered five-point proposal — mission, 7–10 founding researchers, a five-person foundation board (Musk, Gates, Omidyar, Moskovit... | null | null | null |
DX-507 | DX 507 | Defendants | Email thread | Day 3 (April 29, 2026) | 2026-04-29T15:37:43 | Morrison Foerster | 1 | 363,333 | DX-507.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-507.pdf | # DX 507 — Nov 20, 2015 Musk-to-Altman email: "Probably better to have a standard C corp with a parallel nonprofit"
> Musk's two-paragraph reply on top of Sam Altman's "Plan is to have you, me, and Ilya on the Board of Directors for YC AI" email — the contemporaneous receipt of Musk himself proposing a **standard C co... | null | null | null |
DX-508 | DX 508 | Defense (OpenAI/MS) | Text messages | Day 6 (May 4, 2026) | 2026-05-04T18:15:18 | Morrison Foerster | 3 | 458,738 | DX-508.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-508.pdf | # DX 508 — Nov 21, 2015 Brockman / Sutskever pre-OpenAI text thread ("since he'll be bankrolling it it'll be hard to stop it")
> A 22-message chat between Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever the day before they sat down to dinner with Musk in Woodside — Sutskever worrying out loud that "since he'll be bankrolling it it'l... | null | null | null |
DX-509 | DX 509 | Defense | Email thread | Day 6 (May 4, 2026) | 2026-05-04T18:15:18 | Morrison Foerster | 27 | 2,254,085 | DX-509.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-509.pdf | # DX 509 — Nov 22–24, 2015 Brockman ↔ Musk ↔ Altman thread on the OpenAI launch: $1B funding commitment, "Cogito"/"Freemind" naming, $175k salaries, headcount caps
> The four-day pre-launch email exchange (Nov 22–24, 2015) in which Brockman, Musk and Altman work out the **$1B funding commitment** language ("This is re... | null | null | null |
DX-516 | DX 516 | Defense | Email thread | Day 4 (April 30, 2026) | 2026-04-30T15:13:20 | Morrison Foerster | 2 | 613,795 | DX-516.pdf | https://media.mts-in.com/DX-516.pdf | # DX 516 — Jan 2, 2016 Sutskever → Musk, "less open" (Demis Hassabis Falcon-9 forward); Musk reply "Yup"
> A two-page email thread from January 2, 2016 in which Demis Hassabis (DeepMind/Google) congratulates Musk on the Falcon 9 landing and questions the open-sourcing strategy as a safety panacea — Sutskever forwards ... | null | null | null |
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Musk v. Altman — Trial Exhibits
A structured corpus of trial exhibits (PX / DX) admitted in Elon Musk, et al. v. Samuel Altman, et al., with transcribed text and editorial commentary. Each row is one exhibit (email thread, Slack thread, text-message extraction, memo, deck, etc.) with its YAML metadata plus a Markdown body containing the exhibit's transcribed content and our notes.
Provenance
- Source PDFs are public court records released under Pretrial Order No.
1, Dkt. 446. They are linked (not redistributed) via
pdf_url. - Transcribed text and editorial commentary in
body_markdownwere produced by the MTS editorial team.
License
Released under CC-BY-4.0. You may redistribute, remix, and build on this data — including commercially — provided you credit "MTS — musk-v-altman trial coverage" and link back to the source. The underlying court records themselves are public domain (U.S. government works / public filings); the license applies to our transcription and commentary layer.
Schema
| field | type | notes |
|---|---|---|
exhibit_id |
string | e.g. "DX-1017", "PX-22" |
exhibit |
string | display label (e.g. "DX 1017") |
party |
string | "Defense" or "Plaintiff" |
type |
string | "Email", "Slack messages", "Text messages", ... |
admitted_trial_day |
string | e.g. "Day 8 (May 6, 2026)" |
uploaded_box_pt |
string | upload timestamp (Pacific) |
uploader |
string | filing firm |
pages |
int | PDF page count |
size_bytes |
int | PDF size |
source_pdf |
string | filename |
pdf_url |
string | public link to the source PDF |
body_markdown |
string | transcribed content + commentary (Markdown) |
Some rows carry additional frontmatter fields — treat the schema as
open-ended and key off exhibit_id.
Loading
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("<your-username>/musk-v-altman-exhibits", split="train")
print(ds[0]["exhibit_id"], ds[0]["type"])
Known limitations
- Some text-message and Slack exhibits contain redactions (
[REDACTED]). - OCR artifacts may persist in older filings.
- Editorial commentary reflects best-effort interpretation, not legal advice.
Citation
MTS, Musk v. Altman Trial Exhibits, 2026. CC-BY-4.0.
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