Judge rules Musk must face OpenAI’s claims of ‘years-long harassment campaign’

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A federal judge has ruled that Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/TSLA]) CEO Elon Musk must face claims by OpenAI alleging that his public and legal attacks on the company amount to a “years-long harassment campaign.”

US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Tuesday refused a request by Musk to brush aside allegations that he has weaponized legal claims, social media posts, and statements in the press to try to sabotage OpenAI’s success — all to gain advantage for his generative artificial intelligence startup, xAI, _Bloomberg_ reported.

Gonzalez Rogers concluded that the counterclaim filed in April by the ChatGPT maker is legally sufficient to proceed. The judge also dismissed a few of Musk’s claims against OpenAI and Microsoft.

The ruling is the latest twist in a court fight that has played out since last year.

Musk’s feud with OpenAI dates back to his 2018 departure from its board; he is currently suing the Microsoft-backed (NASDAQ:MSFT [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/MSFT]) startup and CEO Sam Altman for straying from its founding mission.

Lawyers for Elon Musk had in June asked the court for a second time to dismiss a countersuit [https://seekingalpha.com/news/4457734-elon-musks-lawyers-ask-court-to-dismiss-openai-countersuit] from OpenAI against him.

Musk on Monday threatened [https://seekingalpha.com/news/4483629-musk-threatens-legal-action-against-apple-over-alleged-antitrust-violations]legal action against Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/AAPL#hasComeFromMpArticle=false#source=section%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews]), accusing it of antitrust violations over the App Store’s rankings of Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot from his startup xAI.

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