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“I Am Not Afraid of Apple”: The Feud Turns Into Guidance — and a Proof Ships With Evidence

MONDAY, JULY 13, 2026 — LEADER VOICE EDITION Section 1 — The Temperature The Musk–Altman feud rolled through the weekend and into Monday, and it has stopped being theater — it is now a live variable in two IPO stories. After Apple's Friday lawsuit, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla (TSLA — Google · Fidelity) and SpaceX (SPCX — Google · Fidelity), escalated Sunday at dawn: "After stealing an open source AI charity, you then stole all of Apple's phone technology!" — bundled with a taunt that his orbital data centers start flying next year, "if your parole officer approves" (IBTimes). Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (private; IPO reportedly filed), answered the pile-on with studied calm: "i am not afraid of...

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