Apple Sues OpenAI for Stealing Trade Secrets to Build AI Hardware

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

Apple has filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of orchestrating a scheme to steal confidential trade secrets for its new AI hardware device. The complaint alleges that former Apple employees Tang Tan and Chang Liu directed current staff to leak unreleased designs, manufacturing processes, and supplier details. Apple claims OpenAI leadership fostered a culture of theft, using stolen information to trick suppliers and bypass security protocols, ultimately seeking an injunction and damages to protect its innovations.

"OpenAI's nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations, rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misappropriated trade secrets."