Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple units from his enterprise premises

Elon Musk has threatened to ban Apple devices from all his companies if the tech giant goes ahead with its plans to integrate AI into its iPhones.

Apple announced that it was bringing artificial intelligence to its devices at its annual developers’ conference in California earlier this week.

But Musk, owner of SpaceX and Tesla, responded by saying employees and visitors to his business sites would ‘have to check their Apple devices at the door’.

Mr Musk has a fractious relationship with OpenAI. A founder of the company in 2015, he left the business a few years later

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, speaks at the Microsoft Build event in Seattle

He added: ‘Apple devices will be banned. That is an unacceptable security violation.’

Apple’s voice assistant, Siri, will be integrated with ChatGPT, the AI-driven software developed by the OpenAI firm.

Mr Musk has a fractious relationship with OpenAI. A founder of the company in 2015, he left the business a few years later – and recently launched legal action against the firm, calling it a ‘danger to humanity’ and claiming it is failing to follow its founding principles.