xAI Loses Bid To Add Ex-OpenAI Researcher

A U.S. court this week denied xAI’s request to designate Jan Leike, a former OpenAI head of alignment, as a custodian for discovery in xAI’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI. The judge found Leike’s documents unrelated and disproportionate to the case, while OpenAI separately accuses xAI of using ephemeral messaging to destroy evidence, complicating discovery.