OpenAI beats xAI trade secret suit as US judge calls amending claims 'futile'
By Mike Swift ( June 15, 2026, 19:59 GMT | Insight) -- A federal judge in San Francisco dismissed without leave to amend xAI’s trade-secret misappropriation suit against OpenAI. US District Judge Rita Lin dismissed xAI's trade secret claims against OpenAI for a second time and said that because xAI's claims lacked substantial enough connection to OpenAI, further amendment would be "futile."OpenAI won final dismissal Monday of trade-secret misappropriation claims filed by xAI, with a federal judge in San Francisco saying the artificial intelligence company owned by Elon Musk failed to cure a critical defect in a prior set of claims that the judge dismissed earlier this year....
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