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A team of investors led by Elon Musk submitted a $97.6 billion bid to purchase OpenAI on Monday. The news comes by way of Musk’s lawyer, Marc Toberoff, who confirmed the news with The Wall Street Journal. The unsolicited bid is the latest escalation by Musk in his war with co-founder Sam Altman, as Altman looks to take the ChatGPT-maker private. Musk is already embroiled in a legal dispute with OpenAI, filing a 2024 injunction against its bid to transition away from nonprofit status. The Musk-led team is positioning the...