Apple Sues OpenAI, Claims Former Employees Stole Trade Secrets
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Apple sued OpenAI and two former employees, alleging theft of hardware trade secrets. The complaint claims former Apple employees accessed confidential files, shared supplier information, and used internal information at OpenAI. The lawsuit follows OpenAI’s $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive’s hardware startup io Products. Apple has sued OpenAI and two former employees, accusing the ChatGPT maker of using stolen trade secrets for its consumer hardware efforts. The complaint , filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, names former Apple senior system electrical engineer Chang Liu and former iPhone and Apple Watch design executive Tang Yew Tan, along with OpenAI Foundation, OpenAI Group PBC, and io Products. Apple alleges Liu, who left the company in January after eight years, failed to return a company laptop and later accessed Apple’s internal systems through an authentication bug. “While employed by OpenAI, Mr. Liu also exploited a rare, previously unknown authentication bug to access Apple’s shared network folders,” Apple’s attorneys said in the complaint. “Upon discovering that he had this unauthorized access to Apple’s systems, Mr. Liu did not report it, return his stolen Apple-issued work laptop, or delete the program that allowed the access.”
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