OAKLAND, Calif.—U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers opened the last day of testimony in the titanic trial between Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s OpenAI with a simple question: Should a trophy of a golden donkey’s backside be entered into evidence? The judge held the statue in her hands with a bemused look. Dario Amodei , then a team lead for AI safety, had helped award it to a company intern years earlier, after Musk called the person a “jackass” for challenging him over AI safety at a company meeting. “We think it’s pretty obvious this trophy has no relevance,” a…

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