What Apple accuses OpenAI of in explosive trade secret lawsuit? A laptop ‘not returned’, secret interviews, & more

Apple has filed trade secrets lawsuit against Sam Altman’s OpenAI, alleging the ChatGPT maker stole trade secrets. In a filing, Apple claimed that employees who went to OpenAI had access to its systems after leaving. Apple has also argued that OpenAI’s hardware business is “rotten to its core” and built on stolen secrets.

Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, filed on Friday (10 July) in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, sets out what Apple describes as “a coordinated pattern of misconduct at an institutional level” stretching from junior technical staff to OpenAI’s most senior hardware executive.