United States District Judge Mark Pittman has rejected xAI’s attempt to keep Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX emails out of discovery in the lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI. Here are the details.
Musk to turn over more material for discovery
Last month, the legal teams of Apple, OpenAI, X, and xAI had a hearing before United States Magistrate Judge Hal R. Ray, Jr., to address several disagreements regarding the discovery process in the lawsuit Elon Musk filed against Apple and OpenAI.
The lawsuit stemmed from Musk’s dissatisfaction with Grok’s rankings in the App Store, which he claimed were the result of an anticompetitive collusion between Apple and OpenAI due to their partnership to have ChatGPT power parts of Siri and Apple Intelligence.
In the hearing, Judge Ray accepted X and xAI’s request to include Craig Federighi as a custodian, and also accepted X and xAI’s request to compel Apple to turn over documents regarding its recent agreement with Google to have Gemini power the new Siri.
