The second day of the highly anticipated trial in the lawsuit against OpenAI concluded with Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and plaintiff in the case, telling the court that he was not opposed to the creation of a small for-profit subsidiary, “as long as the tail didn’t wag the dog.” “I could have started it as a for profit and I chose not to,” Musk said on his second day on the witness stand. He also spoke about his upbringing, his portfolio of companies, his role in founding OpenAI, and his understanding of how the ChatGPT-maker is structured in several testy exchanges with lawyers for OpenAI and Microsoft as part of the cross-examination. Musk sued OpenAI in 2024, accusing the company of abandoning its founding nonprofit mission to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of humanity. The case is being tried in a US federal court in Oakland, California, by US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers with guidance from a nine-person jury.…