OpenAI Posts Public Rebuttal to Apple's Trade Secrets Lawsuit

Apple has asked a national justice for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI arsenic its commercialized secrets suit escalates, and OpenAI responded hours aboriginal with a elaborate nationalist rebuttal that includes interior messages and ineligible correspondence.


Reuters reports that Apple yesterday filed a question seeking to barroom OpenAI and 2 erstwhile employees, Chang Liu and Tang Tan, from accessing, using, oregon disclosing its alleged confidential information, on with a petition for expedited discovery. "Apple volition beryllium irreparably harmed absent a preliminary injunction," the institution said successful its filing.

Apple primitively sued OpenAI connected July 10, alleging that erstwhile Apple technologist Liu and erstwhile Apple plan enforcement Tan ran a strategy to funnel confidential merchandise accusation to OpenAI's hardware business. OpenAI has repeatedly denied immoderate wrongdoing, saying it has "no involvement successful different companies' commercialized secrets."

Late connected Monday evening, OpenAI published a blog station titled "Apple is getting this wrong," calling the suit "careless, assertive and oddly personal." The institution disputes Apple's relationship of its pre-litigation contact, saying Apple's extracurricular counsel emailed the incorrect idiosyncratic successful February aft confusing 2 Asian past names, and published the underlying email concatenation showing the mix-up, on with an apology from Apple's counsel. OpenAI says it heard thing further astir the circumstantial allegations for 5 months earlier Apple filed suit.

OpenAI published iMessage exchanges it says amusement Apple employees repeatedly asking Liu for assistance locating files and method accusation aft his January 22 departure, including directing a workfellow to AirDrop files from his Apple-linked iCloud account. The aforesaid messages amusement an Apple worker inactive asking Liu astir interior files arsenic precocious arsenic March 5, with different subordinate successful the thread calling the speech "highly irregular."

OpenAI besides defended Tan, who spent 24 years astatine Apple earlier joining io Products, the hardware startup helium co-founded with Jony Ive, which merged with OpenAI successful July 2025. "Tang has ever been wide with the squad that we bash not want, and indispensable not use, immoderate confidential accusation from different companies," OpenAI said.

Apple's ailment claims more than 400 erstwhile Apple employees present enactment astatine OpenAI. A proceeding connected Apple's injunction petition has not yet been scheduled.
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