"I believe I am an honest and trustworthy business person," Altman testified in federal court.

For weeks, they’d been having furtive discussions about whether Sam Altman, OpenAI’s C.E.O., and Greg Brockman, his second-in-command, were fit to run the company. Sutskever had once counted both men as friends.

OpenAI trial nears its end, major questions remain about Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and what comes next.