A federal judge on Tuesday denied Elon Musk's bid to dismiss OpenAI's claims of a "years-long harassment campaign" by the Tesla CEO against the company he co-founded in 2015 and later abandoned before ChatGPT became a global phenomenon.

What began as a threat to sue Apple over alleged OpenAI favoritism quickly devolved into a juvenile social media back-and-forth between two of the world's most powerful AI execs.