California faces pressure to wade into Elon Musk-Sam Altman row

Musk and Bonta would make even stranger bedfellows. The top state lawyer has increasingly become the face of California’s Trump resistance, suing the administration over the Musk-led DOGE effort to fire thousands of federal workers and choke off federal funding to California and other states. Meanwhile, Bonta is also defending the state’s social media laws against Musk’s legal challenges. A coalition of nonprofit leaders sent a letter to Bonta’s office on Wednesday, including from the San Francisco Foundation and Economic Security Project, as well as labor groups, calling on the AG to “take action to transfer OpenAI’s charitable assets to a truly independent nonprofit or nonprofits.” “This isn’t about trying to stop the conversion of nonprofit to for-profit,” Fred Blackwell, the CEO of the San Francisco Foundation, told POLITICO’s California Decoded newsletter. “It’s really purely about making sure the assets that were accumulated for the public good stay that way.” The group points to...