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‘Come & See if Your Parole Officer Approves’: Musk vs Altman Feud Reignites After GPT-5.6 Launch - The Economic Times Video

The feud intensified as OpenAI and xAI rolled out rival AI models and Apple’s complaint alleged OpenAI used interviews and departures to collect hardware secrets.

  • On Sunday, July 12, 2026, Elon Musk accused Sam Altman of stealing "Apple's phone technology" in an online post, marking the sharpest escalation yet in a weekend of public insults between the two AI figures.
  • Apple sued OpenAI on Friday, July 10, alleging the ChatGPT developer harvested hardware secrets through job interviews and departing staff for its planned consumer devices.
  • Musk and Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and have clashed since Musk departed; recently, SpaceX shipped Grok 4.5 while OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol, with each founder promoting his own technology.
  • SpaceX raised a record $75B in its flotation, selling investors on orbital computing infrastructure, while OpenAI has filed confidentially for its own listing as both men court public markets.
  • Musk is appealing a failed $150B lawsuit against Altman that collapsed in Oakland in May, while SpaceX promises to start flying AI1 machines next year, built at its Gigasat plant in Texas.
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Wccftech broke the news on Sunday, July 12, 2026.
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