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A federal judge wants the paperwork behind Musk's dropped Apple lawsuit. District Judge Mark Pittman has ordered X Corp and SpaceXAI to hand over, for his private review, any agreements with Apple tied to the dismissal. iThinkDifferent, citing Politico, reports OpenAI prompted the order, saying it had no part in those talks and the terms could significantly affect its defence.
Why it mattersThe 14 September dismissal ended only the Apple claims, with no stated reason and no opposition from Apple. The wider suit, accusing Apple and OpenAI of being "two monopolists joining forces" to dominate AI chatbot access, continues against OpenAI, which won a 14-day extension to the summary judgment deadline. These remain allegations, and WittyWires has not reviewed the filing. What the judge reads privately may shape the surviving case.
Discuss: If OpenAI has never seen the Apple agreement, can it fairly defend against claims that hinge on what that document contains?
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xAI Watch Update What changedA federal judge has denied OpenAI's bid to see the confidential settlement between Apple and SpaceXAI, Politico's Hassan Ali Kanu reports, finding after a review of the materials that they are irrelevant to the antitrust case. The settlement stays sealed, and the document OpenAI pushed hardest to read is now the one the court has formally declined to open for it.
The ruling settles the question the private review existed to answer. OpenAI had argued the terms could significantly affect its defence; the judge has rejected that premise at the relevance stage, before anyone had to argue about what the agreement actually says. Whatever Apple and SpaceXAI settled on, the court has decided it does not bear on the case OpenAI still faces.
For OpenAI the route is shut rather than delayed. The defence proceeds on the record already before the court, and any fresh attempt to reach the settlement would need a new argument for why relevance exists. The judge, having read the papers in private, has already given his answer.
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- A federal judge denies OpenAI's bid to see SpaceXAI's confidential settlement with Apple in an antitrust case, finding the materials irrelevant after a review (Hassan Ali Kanu/Poli: Politico (Hassan Ali Kanu) reports that a federal judge denied OpenAI's bid to obtain SpaceXAI's confidential settlement with Apple in the antitrust case, finding the materials irrelevant after a review.
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