June 10 (Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday

he would ban Apple ( AAPL ) devices at his companies if the

iPhone maker integrates OpenAI at the operating system level.

"That is an unacceptable security violation," Musk, who is

the CEO of electric-vehicle maker Tesla and rocket

maker SpaceX and owner of social media company X, said in a post

on X.

"And visitors will have to check their Apple ( AAPL ) devices at the

door, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage," he said.

Apple ( AAPL ) and OpenAI did not immediately respond to Reuters

requests for comments.

Earlier in the day, Apple ( AAPL ) announced a slew of AI features

across its apps and operating platforms and a partnership with

OpenAI to bring the ChatGPT technology to its devices.

Apple ( AAPL ) said it had built AI with privacy "at the core" and it

would use a combination of on-device processing and cloud

computing to power those features.

"It's patently absurd that Apple ( AAPL ) isn't smart enough to make

their own AI, yet is somehow capable of ensuring that OpenAI

will protect your security & privacy!" Musk said on X.

At the beginning of March, Musk had sued OpenAI, which he

co-founded in 2015, and its CEO Sam Altman, saying they

abandoned the startup's original mission to develop AI for the

benefit of humanity and not for profit.

Musk has also founded his own startup, xAI, in a bid to

challenge OpenAI and build an alternative to the viral chatbot

ChatGPT.

xAI was valued at $24 billion in its last funding round,

where it raised $6 billion in series B funding.