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Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit

TechnologyFebruary 26, 2026
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Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit
Even twisting an ex-employee's text to favor xAI's reading fails to sway judge.
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Elon Musk appears to be grasping at straws in a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of poaching eight xAI employees in an allegedly unlawful bid to access xAI trade secrets connected to its data centers and chatbot, Grok.

In a Tuesday order granting OpenAI's motion to dismiss, US District Judge Rita F. Lin said that xAI failed to provide evidence of any misconduct from OpenAI.

Instead, xAI seemed fixated on a range of alleged conduct of former employees. But in assessing xAI's claims, Lin said that xAI failed to show proof that OpenAI induced any of these employees to steal trade secrets "or that these former xAI employees used any stolen trade secrets once employed by OpenAI."

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