Musk's xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI Over Alleged Antitrust Violations 74
An anonymous reader shares a report: Elon Musk's AI startup xAI sued Apple and ChatGPT maker OpenAI in U.S. federal court in Texas on Monday, accusing them of illegally conspiring to thwart competition for artificial intelligence.
Musk earlier this month had threatened to sue Cupertino, California-based Apple, saying in a post on his social media platform X that "Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store."
Musk earlier this month had threatened to sue Cupertino, California-based Apple, saying in a post on his social media platform X that "Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store."
Space-Karen doesn't like to lose (Score:5, Insightful)
That's about it.
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Why can't he build a superior free speech smartphone?
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oh boy this guy doesn't know how online ads work
thanks for letting us know what your search history has looked like you loser lol
It just suddenly dawned on him his daughter also uses the family PC.
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Amusingly, that result could be explained by something going horribly wrong, or by something working exactly as intended. And it's not clear which would be more hysterical or telling about Melonia Musk.
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He would get bitch slapped with tariffs.
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What about an AI phone that automatically translates the other person's speech into something you want to hear?
For example, "We are being sued by our shareholders and the latest product launch is a failure" gets translated into "The shareholders can't get enough of our stock and the factories can't keep up with new product demand".
Re: Space-Karen doesn't like to lose (Score:5, Insightful)
Poor Musk hurt by business as usual.
Tough world Elon. Sue God next time.
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Sounds like "It is not my fault, it is theirs! They ruined it!"
Poor Musk hurt by business as usual.
Tough world Elon. Sue God next time.
This is the same guy who sued advertisers for not advertising on Twitter [npr.org]. I can't understand why large, global brands wouldn't want to be associated with that nazi-infested hellhole [nbcnews.com] by spending money there...
Re: Space-Karen doesn't like to lose (Score:2)
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Doesn't he know about Apple's shock troops, composed chiefly of corporate Samurai Lawyers and Copy Machine Repair Men?
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Space Karen.
Hahahhahahahahagahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
That's funny (;
That litigious SOB (Score:5, Funny)
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Mod parent funny, even though I don't think starving children to death is funny. Some people just think people who can't afford food deserve to starve?
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NAK
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It will be interesting to see if Apple shoots back against Musk companies for patent infringement. Apple has a very large set of patients and their lawyers should be able to find quite a few to litigate with. One of the reasons companies have many patents is to have ammunition during a litigation war. Besides that, Apple has a lot more disposable cash than Elon companies do. I'm not even talking about stock market valuation.
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Which company is Apple going to sue? And what products would be targeted?
It's not enough to have a lot of patents, you need them to potentially hit on products that ship in volumes.
Also, Apple doesn't need to attract anti-competitive attention to itself, that would work in Musk's favor. Only an idiot fails to recognize that Musk is the bad guy here, Apple shouldn't be trying to change that.
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It will be interesting to see if Apple shoots back against Musk companies for patent infringement. Apple has a very large set of patients and their lawyers should be able to find quite a few to litigate with. One of the reasons companies have many patents is to have ammunition during a litigation war. Besides that, Apple has a lot more disposable cash than Elon companies do. I'm not even talking about stock market valuation.
I know Apple is trying to get into the health services market, but I didn't realize they already have patients. Wow!!
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Yeah, typos are a PITA and I can't correct once posted. Most folks will have corrected to patent.
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It's too bad they don't give you 5 mins of editing privs.
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It's too much money and too much privilege. The billionaires really do think they're superior lifeforms that should receive automatic deference, and when they collide with reality, they show their true nature; emotionally stunted children.
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Was it ever clear which of the two was the bigger manbaby?
Big waste of time (and money) (Score:2)
Re: They will never forgive Musk (Score:2)
Re: They will never forgive Musk (Score:2)
Musk no ketamine? Pull the other one.
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The man is the most prolific innovator of our time
*Citation needed
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The man is the most prolific innovator of our time, and everyone already knows he's not doing ketamine currently nor has he ever done it recreationally.
Ignoring the bits about ketamine now, can you specifically name the things that Musk himself has "innovated"? Clearly, you're not being so bold in praising him that you'll actually claim he actually invented anything (which is ridiculous on its face) and used the much, much weaker term "innovator". Even then though, what has he innovated. I can't think of anything he's done that wasn't already someone else's idea if not already an existing product.
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Take a sebatical for a year or two, somewhere without an internet connection. I bet he'd no longer need the ketamine.
Ketamine is the drug of choice for people who can't stand their own company.
Re:They will never forgive Musk (Score:5, Insightful)
Didn't you vote for the guy who is putting armed military on patrol on US soil? Now is the time for anyone flying the gadsden flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] to speak up. This is what you've been waiting for! Big government exercising force on the populace. Let's see those mask free open carry patrols!
*crickets*
Turns out they're cowards who do enjoy being tread on.
Re:They will never forgive Musk (Score:5, Insightful)
Turns out they're cowards who do enjoy being tread on.
Nope. They enjoy doing the treading. Distinct difference.
The Gadsden should be amended to say, "Tread on people I don't like instead" at the bottom.
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They only said "Jews will not replace us", the national guard is just fine.
States rights are highly dependent on context, as is empathy.
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They only said "Jews will not replace us", the national guard is just fine.
States rights are highly dependent on context, as is empathy.
By "states rights are highly dependent on context", you mean that it's OK for GOP states to do it if the Democrats are in power - but that it's OK to send military forces to states that disagree with Trump or don't praise him enough? That seems to be the golden Republican standard these days...
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I see this so much now- every single fucking person talks like they're a goddamn pundit.
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What were you saying about autopen? https://www.msnbc.com/morning-... [msnbc.com]
President Donald Trump claimed without evidence early Monday that his predecessor’s pardons for members of the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the Capitol are invalid because then-President Joe Biden didn’t use a real pen. And when asked on Monday if he has used autopen, the president said he has
As usual whenever he speaks its always projection.
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Then why are they wasting so much time attacking people who ARE here legally?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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Thanks for confirming you're a worthless liar. I'm sure you're proud of yourself.
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Living in Maryland I know it very well, so keep your assumptions to yourself, I also know the 3 different stories the administration told before they settled on the current lie. The first one was: "We made a mistake but we're not fixing it." then they "found he was a gang member" considering there was no due process for that "finding", we just have to take their word for it. As in "not legal".
https://www.supremecourt.gov/o... [supremecourt.gov]
The United
States represents that the removal to El Salvador was the
result of an
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Do any of the people who were detained have 34 felonies on their record? Just asking...
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Let's see those mask free open carry patrols!
Soooo, you want people to take their guns and go to DC? I have seen no ICE agents in my neighborhoods, so what good would patrolling be here?
Honestly, it sounds like you are mocking people who stand up for 2A and not shooting anyone while this shit goes down. Tell me, who are they to shoot? Cops? National Guard? Politicians?
Get your shit straight before you mock others. Or, just stop listening to propaganda.
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Uniparty? Libertarian?
Dude you hate gay people in your other posts and called them retarded faggots.
You're not above two party and you're not a libertarian even if you've been saying so for a few decades.
I'm suspicious of libertarians but they were in fact one of the most pro-gay parties before liking gay people was cool.
If you were real you'd be a republican, but you're a guy shitposting in a shack to save yourself from being shipped off to ukraine.
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Lol imagine thinking taking twitter for "your side" is some kind of win. You're a retard for being there regardless of how woke looking the office photos are.
Re:They will never forgive Musk (Score:5, Insightful)
Meanwhile censorship continues on the platform, they just aren't shutting down the racists anymore. Good work, right?
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He's welcome to Xitter but the narcissistic psychopath would have destroyed the government
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"would have destroyed the government'" Nah, he was just a useful idiot for the Project 2025 people. And they are continuing to destroy the government and replace it with a Fascist state that they control.
la Presidenta is another useful idiot for them. Someone that stupid doesn't come up with evil schemes on his own. The Project 2025 people dream them up, and a quick conversation is enough to convince that moron that he's always believed whatever they are selling.
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there's credible evidence that Musk has a lot of government data uploaded via Starlink to god-knows-where.
if he hadn't so blatantly stupid & aggressive about dismantling agencies that were investigating him, he could have done a lot more damage & stolen many more secrets.
it was likely only his attempt to sit in on Defense Department meetings that caused Trump to even try to rein him in
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Or his overt racism and nazi salutes. Or his corrupt theft of government information and destruction of government institutions.
I thought the person who signed your checks hated Nazis, comrade?
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Hrrr, hrrrr. You're so clever.
I bet you practice saying that dumb shit in a mirror, don't you?
-- Right wing media literacy (Score:2)
1984, A book written by a communist to warn people where we'll end up if we lick daddy's boots.
Earlier he was posting that he has a shelf full of un-woke sci-fi that'll inspire the next generation of fascists.
I wonder how many of them are actually woke but he missed the point?
Re: They will never forgive Musk (Score:2)
I'm not from America, but "waving to the crowd", LOL!
What's that saying you Americans use? "Bless your heart"?
Damn dude, it's pretty damn obvious to the vast majority of the word he went full Nazi there.
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These left-wing communists on Slashdot will never forgive Elon for buying Twitter and taking away their censorship engine when they were riding high on CV1984 authoritarianism.
Taking it away? He's censoring posts critical of Israel, critical of DOGE, critical of Trump, and many other subjects. They're either deboosted so they're buried, or prevents retweeting them.
Willful blindness must be a trait with you folks.
Wasn't Mecha-Hitler the problem? (Score:4, Interesting)
I think xAI was no longer considered after Grok went full racist on X?
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The problem is that AI did it by itself.
The Grok model is even open weight. The problem is not the model, but the system instructions. In the past users even had chats where it was basically apologizing like "It is immoral to spread fake news, but I am instructed to insist on ..." for some prompts. There are also leaked system prompts containing it should not say something negative about Musk. They probably did not instruct it to be Mecha Hitler, but I guess they gave it a right-leaning bias and it overacte
Seriously? (Score:3)
His argument is that the AI that called itself "Mecha-Hitler" is unfairly not given the #1 spot in the rankings? Good luck with that.
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Yeah, I suspect this is going to end badly for him because Apple will probably release the actual numbers for the apps in question.
It's even funnier because Hank Green released an app that dethroned ChatGPT for a week or two because he released screen shots showing his app and ChatGPT is #1 while his app climbs the rankings. And you see the xAI app briefly hitting #3.
Deep Seek also dethroned ChatGPT when it was the big new thing as well.
I think Apple would simply release the numbers and then we might actual
Courts are a refuge for products that suck (Score:2)
If you can't beat them in the marketplace, then maybe your product isn't that good. I do not know a single person who wants their AI to be trained to call itself "Mecha Hitler" and is actively being trained to be used to fuel right-wing Christo-fascist Nazi ideology. Fuck Musk -- he's a giant asshole.
Wait (Score:2)