Accused X.AI Code Thief Faces Civil Order, Criminal Probe (1)

An AI engineer accused of stealing the “entire code base” for Elon Musk’s X.AI’s expressed concern at a Tuesday hearing that parts of a restraining order a judge would issue later in the day could implicate his Fifth Amendment rights in a potential criminal case.

Counsel for Xuechen Li conceded early during the Tuesday hearing at the US District Court for the Northern District of California that a temporary restraining order would be issued. But he expressed concern that some aspects of an order could create constitutional self-incrimination concerns, while others could require him to have access electronics seized by ...