February 03, 2026
Elon Musk's xAI urged a California federal judge Tuesday to change her tentative decision to toss its suit accusing OpenAI of poaching its workers to steal trade secrets, arguing that when considered together, the "whole gestalt" of xAI's allegations against individual employees is enough to state viable claims against OpenAI.
February 02, 2026
A California federal judge has said she's inclined to grant OpenAI's motion to dismiss a trade secrets complaint from Elon Musk's xAI "in full," saying the plaintiffs have not provided enough facts to support claims that OpenAI poached employees and stole source code.
October 03, 2025
OpenAI Inc. has written off a suit from xAI accusing it of poaching employees in order to steal trade secrets as another attempt by Elon Musk to disrupt OpenAI's efforts to create artificial intelligence that benefits humanity, adding that employees were leaving Musk's company of their own volition.
September 25, 2025
Elon Musk's chatbot company xAI Corp. has hit rival OpenAI Inc. with a suit in California federal court that alleges two engineers and an unnamed senior executive took trade secrets to OpenAI when they switched companies.