{"id":1020408,"date":"2026-07-13T08:49:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T03:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020408"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T03:32:22","slug":"apple-sues-openai-for-theft-over-ai-device-plans-and-alleged-trade-secrets-misuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/13\/apple-sues-openai-for-theft-over-ai-device-plans-and-alleged-trade-secrets-misuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple sues OpenAI for \u2018theft\u2019 over AI device plans and alleged trade secrets misuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging its device ambitions were built on stolen ground. In a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California, the iPhone maker alleges that OpenAI, its chief hardware officer Tang Tan \u2014 a 24-year Apple veteran \u2014 and former Apple engineer Chang Liu have been engaged in a pattern of stealing confidential designs, technical files and supplier data. <\/p>\n<p>Apple has also named io Products, the hardware startup OpenAI acquired last year, as a co-defendant. It\u2019s said that over 400 former Apple staffers now work at OpenAI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging its device ambitions were built on stolen ground. In a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California, the iPhone maker alleges that OpenAI, its chief hardware officer Tang Tan \u2014 a 24-year Apple veteran \u2014 and former Apple engineer Chang Liu have been engaged in a pattern of stealing confidential designs, technical files and supplier data. Apple has also named io Products, the hardware startup OpenAI acquired last year, as a co-defendant. It\u2019s said that over 400 former Apple staffers now work at OpenAI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020419,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020408\/revisions\/1020419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}