Apple sues OpenAI for trade secret theft
Summary
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the AI company of stealing secret information from Apple employees. The lawsuit claims OpenAI workers accessed and took confidential details about Apple’s unreleased products and technologies.Key Facts
- Apple says OpenAI deliberately took its confidential secrets through current and former Apple employees.
- Chang Liu, a former Apple engineer now at OpenAI, kept an Apple laptop and accessed Apple’s cloud storage after leaving.
- Liu reportedly admitted to finding a way to access Apple’s files and downloaded many secret documents while working at OpenAI.
- Tang Tan, another Apple veteran now OpenAI’s chief hardware officer, allegedly encouraged OpenAI recruits from Apple to bring real Apple device parts and helped dodge Apple’s security checks.
- OpenAI acquired io Products, a hardware company co-founded by Apple’s former design chief Jony Ive, who works with OpenAI now.
- Apple claims OpenAI misled a trusted Apple partner to reveal a secret metal-finishing process for developing OpenAI’s hardware.
- Over 400 former Apple employees are now working at OpenAI.
- Apple wants the court to stop OpenAI from using or sharing Apple’s trade secrets, recover Apple materials, and get damages for the theft.
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