New Delhi, June 16 -- Elon Musk has now lost to OpenAI twice in a month. The second defeat, handed down on Monday, threw out his AI company's claim that the rival stole the secrets behind its Grok chatbot, and the judge did it in a way that leaves xAI no room to try the same argument again.

Xuechen Li, a former senior engineer at xAI whom OpenAI later tried to hire, the South China Morning Post reported. xAI argued that in courting Li, OpenAI was really fishing for the confidential work behind Grok.

The theory was specific. xAI's amended complaint centred on a presentation Li gave while OpenAI was recruiting him, and claimed the company wanted the secrets tied to the July 2025 release of Grok 4 because it believed its own forthcoming Ch...