11 employees sold trade secrets to OpenAI, Apple alleges in court

The ongoing legal battle between Apple and OpenAI escalated dramatically following a new filing by Apple in a California federal court. Apple expanded on its trade secret theft allegations by claiming that even more former employees may have transferred confidential hardware data to OpenAI before jumping ship, based on an internal investigation revealed.

The original complaint, filed on July 10, accused OpenAI, its hardware arm iO Products, and two former senior Apple employees – former Vice President of Hardware Engineering Tang Yew Tan and senior system electrical engineer Chang Liu – of conspiring to leak confidential hardware technology.