OpenAI’s Feud With xAI Carries On as Apple Secrets Fight Revs Up
THE SO WHAT
High-stakes trade secret fights between major labs are turning model development into a legal as well as technical risk surface. If you’re training or fine-tuning at scale, tighten provenance, access controls, and documentation now—discovery in someone else’s lawsuit is a bad place to realize your IP hygiene is weak.
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