OpenAI responds to Apple’s lawsuit accusing ChatGPT-maker of stealing iPhone-makers' trade secrets; says: We have no interest in ...
OpenAI denies Apple’s allegations of trade‑secret theft, insisting it has no interest in other companies’ confidential information.Summary
Apple filed a lawsuit on July 10 in the Northern District of California, accusing OpenAI of orchestrating a "pattern of theft" that targeted Apple employees and used recruitment interviews to harvest confidential hardware designs, prototypes, and supplier information. The suit claims that OpenAI leveraged former Apple staff—such as Tang Tan, former VP of product design, and Chang Liu, a former iPhone hardware engineer—to bypass security and obtain proprietary data, which the company allegedly used to advance its own secret consumer‑hardware projects. In response, OpenAI’s Director of Strategic Communications, Drew Pusateri, posted on X that the company "has no interest in other companies' trade secrets" and is focused on building innovative technology for people worldwide. The dispute follows a period of close collaboration between the two firms, highlighted at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference where Apple’s software head praised OpenAI as a pioneer in AI. The lawsuit also names a third AI startup, io Products Inc., and notes that a top executive from Apple’s smart glasses project recently joined OpenAI, underscoring concerns about talent drain and intellectual‑property leakage.
(Source：The Times Of India)