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The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI
Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring Apple hardware to interviews. Here are the complaint’s most eye-catching claims.
TL;DR
- Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI includes allegations of a coordinated effort to extract confidential information from current and former employees.
- Misconduct is described as "normalized and exemplified by leadership" at OpenAI.
- Apple claims OpenAI's hardware business is "rotten to its core" due to the alleged illegal reliance on stolen trade secrets.
- The complaint suggests the alleged misconduct is "the tip of the iceberg" and discovery will reveal a much larger scale of misappropriation.
- Specific allegations include an employee joking about accessing Apple's network storage from a former colleague's work computer.
- OpenAI allegedly instructed job candidates working at Apple to bring "actual parts" and "CAD/design artifacts" from Apple to interviews.
- OpenAI is accused of coaching departing Apple employees on how to avoid security procedures to prevent detection of trade secret theft.
- Over four hundred former Apple employees are now reportedly working at OpenAI, raising concerns about knowledge of confidential information.
- io, a company founded by former Apple employees and acquired by OpenAI, is also named as a defendant for allegedly using Apple's industrial design techniques.
- Apple claims it attempted to contact OpenAI in February to resolve concerns, but received no response.