SpainApple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in a federal court in California, accusing the AI company of building its emerging hardware business on stolen trade secrets. The lawsuit specifically names two former Apple employees, Tang Yew Tan and Chang Liu, who allegedly took confidential information from Apple to benefit OpenAI. Tan, a former vice president of product design at Apple, now leads hardware development at OpenAI after joining the company through his startup io, which was acquired by OpenAI last year. Liu, an electrical engineer who worked on sensitive iPhone projects before leaving for OpenAI, reportedly accessed internal files using a server authentication flaw and shared confidential documents with a colleague while trying to recruit her to OpenAI. Apple claims that OpenAI has institutionalized these practices, including using Apple project codenames during job interviews and asking candidates to bring prototypes from Apple offices.
Bias read (Center): The article presents the legal dispute between Apple and OpenAI as a factual account of alleged corporate espionage, without overtly favoring either side. It includes direct quotes from the lawsuit and details of the accusations without editorializing or emphasizing one perspective over another. The
