The biggest bombshells from Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI

[usonian]

INTERESTING!
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft-2026-7

Sampler:

OpenAI allegedly exploited an Apple security bug
According to the complaint, Apple's investigation began after former employee Chang Liu left for OpenAI in January. Apple alleges Liu failed to return a company laptop and later discovered he could still access Apple's internal systems because of what the company describes as an authentication bug. (and sleazily downloaded files .... )

Apple says OpenAI turned interviews into intelligence-gathering sessions
The lawsuit claims that Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan, a former Apple vice president who spent 24 years at the company, asked Apple job candidates to bring physical components for "show and tell" sessions during interviews. OpenAI employees would also ask candidates for prototypes and information about vendors, the complaint alleges.

Apple says the misconduct went all the way to OpenAI leadership
"This much is clear, however: at every level, from members of its Technical Staff to its Chief Hardware Officer, and in coordination with business partners, OpenAI has been stealing Apple's trade secrets and confidential information," the complaint continued. "As a natural result, OpenAI's nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations, rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misappropriated trade secrets."

Who, me?

[dalton99a]

1. Altman wants to be the world's next trillionaire without making any physical product.

[LudwigPastorius]

2. You mean to tell me that a company whose products are built on the theft of the intellectual property of millions of...

artists and authors is engaged in stealing trade secrets from another company?