The AI race isn’t just being fought with chips, code, and billion-dollar data centers anymore. Sometimes it’s fought 280 characters at a time.
On July 11, Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX (SPCX) CEO Elon Musk resurrected one of his favorite nicknames for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, calling him “Scam Altman” on X, formerly Twitter, just one day after Apple (AAPL) sued OpenAI over alleged theft of hardware trade secrets. Altman didn’t let the jab sit for long, firing back with a shot aimed squarely at one of the biggest pillars supporting SpaceX’s investment story.