Elon Musk, Sam Altman feud reignites after Apple sues OpenAI for stealing trade secrets: Scam Altman

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reignited their nearly decade-long feud over the weekend, trading barbs after Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing its trade secrets.In a Saturday post on X, Musk replied to another post announcing that OpenAI was suing Altman’s company, invoking his longtime nickname for Altman: “Scam Altman strikes again…”A few minutes later, Musk jabbed at Altman again, writing: “He takes scamming to a whole new level.”The world’s richest man continued his barrage of posts with an image of Altman that included the words “I’m doing this because I love it” – writing, “By ‘this’ he means scamming.”“He might literally love scamming more than any human alive!” Musk added.The stream of posts apparently caught Altman’s attention, who quickly took the opportunity to lash out at Musk’s own business ventures – including his debut of rocket-launch firm SpaceX on the Nasdaq last month, which was the largest-ever IPO.OpenAI has filed for its own IPO.“[H]omeboy you’re the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters,” Altman wrote in a Saturday post that has racked up nearly 15 million views.Musk replied: “We start flying them next year.

Maybe you can come see them if your parole officer approves.After stealing an open source AI charity, you then stole all of Apple’s phone technology! Wow.

What do you plan for an encore? That’s tough to beat.”In a lawsuit filed Friday, Apple alleged that “at every level… OpenAI has been stealing Apple’s trade secrets.” According to the complaint, one junior employee improperly used an Apple employee’s login credentials to access company servers.Apple also alleges that OpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan – who spent 24 years at Apple, including as vice president of product design – solicited confidential information from Apple employees interviewing for jobs.Tan allegedly encouraged them to bring “act...