{"id":1022157,"date":"2026-07-18T12:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T06:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022157"},"modified":"2026-07-18T13:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:10:50","slug":"why-has-apple-sent-preservation-letters-to-openai-employees-all-we-know-about-trade-secret-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/18\/why-has-apple-sent-preservation-letters-to-openai-employees-all-we-know-about-trade-secret-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Why has Apple sent preservation letters to OpenAI employees? All we know about trade-secret lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s legal team has dispatched preservation letters to approximately 40 former employees currently employed at OpenAI, instructing them to retain documents and communications related to their tenure at Apple and their subsequent departure, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>This action, as per the Financial Times, comes roughly a week after Apple initiated its trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI, io Products, and two identified former Apple engineers, Chang Liu and Tang Tan, for stealing secret hardware plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s legal team has dispatched preservation letters to approximately 40 former employees currently employed at OpenAI, instructing them to retain documents and communications related to their tenure at Apple and their subsequent departure, according to a new report. This action, as per the Financial Times, comes roughly a week after Apple initiated its trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI, io Products, and two identified former Apple engineers, Chang Liu and Tang Tan, for stealing secret hardware plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022157","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022158,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022157\/revisions\/1022158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}