Call it the ultimate science fair competition, but this one’s in a UFC octagon.

The smartest and most competitive people in the world – including Elon Musk and Sam Altman – are competing in a gloves-off battle for AI supremacy.

Legal threats, employee poaching, social-media mudslinging and shake ups by a dark-horse contender from the other side of the Earth are not off limits in this match.

Collateral damage comes with the territory. In the latest salvo this week, Musk threatened to sue Apple for antitrust violations over alleged favoritism toward Sam Altman’s OpenAI, which it has a partnership with. Altman and Apple both denied this.

Altman shot back with an accusation of his own, alleging Musk “manipulate[s] X to benefit himself and his own companies and harm his competitors and

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