The trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI's leaders is getting messy, and it looks like neither side will walk away clean.

• Musk claims Sam Altman and Greg Brockman stole a charity by turning OpenAI into a for-profit, and he wants over $130 billion and them kicked out.
• The case is weakened because Musk himself tried to merge OpenAI into Tesla in 2017 and 2018, which would have made it for-profit too.
• Brockman kept detailed journals showing the team always planned a for-profit and wanted Musk out, while Musk auto-deletes all his messages.
• The judge, an Obama appointee, has big power here and tossed out Musk's pre-trial threats to weaponize Twitter against Altman and Brockman.
• One of Musk's ex-partners, who sat on OpenAI's board, confirmed Musk offered Altman a Tesla board seat tied to a merger, which hurts Musk's case.

Outlook: The likely result is nobody pays anyone, nobody is found guilty, and the judge tells both sides they wanted the same thing and have to live with how it played out.