Three weeks of testimony in Judge Gonzalez Rogers’s Oakland courtroom end with Musk in Beijing on Trump’s state-visit delegation and deliberations beginning Monday.

Closing arguments in Musk v. Altman wrapped on Thursday afternoon in Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’s Oakland courtroom, sending the nine-person jury home for the weekend and into deliberations that begin Monday.

Three weeks of testimony, depositions, and a parade of Silicon Valley witnesses, including Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella, and Elon Musk himself, have reduced to two competing summary readings: that Altman and Brockman “stole a charity,” as Musk’s counsel told the jury, or that Musk “didn’t get his way at OpenAI,” as the defence framed it.

Musk was not in the room for the closing.…