Apple’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Sparks Another Musk-Altman Online Spat

OpenAI co-founders-turned-rivals Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded several jabs on X over the weekend. While the two have gone back and forth online plenty of times before, this latest spat was prompted by news that Apple is suing OpenAI. “Scam Altman strikes again,” Musk wrote Saturday morning in response to a post about the lawsuit. The iPhone maker filed the suit Friday in a California federal court, accusing OpenAI and two former Apple employees who now work at the AI company of stealing trade secrets related to Apple’s manufacturing processes and products still in development. Musk quickly seized on the news as another opportunity to attack Altman. “He takes scamming to a whole new level,” Musk wrote in a separate post. “He might literally love scamming more than any human alive!” he continued in yet another post. It didn’t take long for Altman to fire back at Musk. “[H]omeboy you’re the one sellling public market investors on short-term space datacenters,” Altman wrote, referring to SpaceX’s recent IPO. “We start flying them next year. Maybe you can come see them if your parole officer approves,” Musk replied. Altman also suggested Musk’s renewed attention is due to OpenAI’s la