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Elon Musk’s xAI has filed a federal lawsuit against former engineer Xuechen Li, accusing him of stealing confidential trade secrets before leaving the company to join OpenAI. According to the lawsuit, Li allegedly copied proprietary xAI documents from his work laptop onto a personal device after receiving nearly $7 million in cash and stock liquidation. The stolen materials reportedly include cutting-edge AI research tied to xAI’s Grok model, which the company claims features capabilities superior to ChatGPT and could save competitors billions in R&D.

xAI also alleges that Li took deliberate steps to cover his tracks by deleting browser history, renaming files, and compressing data before uploading it. Just three days after the alleged data transfer, Li resigned from xAI and accepted an offer to join OpenAI, intensifying the ongoing AI talent war among tech giants like Meta, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, where researchers are being recruited with multi-million-dollar deals.

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AI-powered “vibe coding” tools might let anyone prompt their way into building apps, but that doesn’t mean developers are heading for the dinosaur exhibit.

The latest entry from Skylark’s Steven Kleinveld argues that, despite the no-code hype, engineers are sticking around—just leveled up. Think less Terminator, more Iron Man suit for devs. No matter how clever AI prompts get, there’s a gulf between shipping a flashy demo and shipping a product that survives actual users (and investors).

A world run on "vibe-coded" products might be a founder’s fever dream, but unless AI figures out how to debug production fires at 3 a.m., engineers aren’t going obsolete—just more in demand. The biggest beneficiaries? Founders who can still spot the difference between a working prototype and a melting server room.