Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices, including the iPhone, from the companies he founded on Monday, over concerns about whether the iPhone maker’s new partnership with OpenAI will protect users’ personal data.
“If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS (operating system) level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies.” Musk wrote in post on X on Monday. “That is an unacceptable security violation.” Among the companies Musk runs or co-founded are electric car maker Tesla, rocket producer SpaceX, space tunnelling startup, the Boring Company, and X, formerly known as Twitter, which he had acquired in 2022.
Musk went on to say that visitors to his companies will have to “check their Apple devices at the door, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage,” in reference to an enclosure that shields anything placed inside it from electromagnetic fields.
Apple didn’t immediately…
