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OpenAI Claims Former Employee Smuggled 100+ Secret Files to Apple — Yes, That Apple
OpenAI has accused a former employee of transferring over 100 confidential files about unreleased hardware — including device images, engineering data, and supplier information — to personal accounts before returning to Apple, and allegedly presenting OpenAI's product plans to Apple senior leadership. OpenAI claims this information may now be influencing Apple's upcoming AI hardware products, though Apple denies finding any evidence to support these allegations. The dispute carries notable irony, as Apple itself sued OpenAI just months earlier over former employees allegedly taking its own trade secrets to the ChatGPT maker.
OpenAI Calls Apple's Trade Secrets Lawsuit 'Oddly Personal' as Legal Fight Turns Ugly
OpenAI has fired back at Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, calling it "careless, aggressive and oddly personal" and denying that it possesses or wants any of Apple's confidential information. The dispute stems from Apple's claim that OpenAI stole hardware designs and that over 400 former Apple employees now work at the AI company, with two individuals specifically accused of accessing or seeking out proprietary information. The conflict reflects growing rivalry between the two firms as OpenAI moves into consumer hardware and Apple pursues its own AI ambitions.