OpenAI: Here's What Apple's Trade Secret Theft Lawsuit Gets Wrong
OpenAI is responding to an Apple lawsuit that accuses it of trade secret theft by taking the legal battle to the court of public opinion.“Apple is getting this wrong,” OpenAI says in a blog post. “This careless, aggressive, and oddly personal lawsuit sadly doesn’t live up to [Apple’s] reputation."Apple claims that two former employees, Tang Yew Tan and Chang Liu, conspired to steal Apple's trade secrets when jumping ship to build hardware products for OpenAI. Liu allegedly exploited a bug to access Apple’s shared network folders and failed to return a corporate laptop.
- ▪OpenAI is responding to an Apple lawsuit that accuses it of trade secret theft by taking the legal battle to the court of public opinion.“Apple is getting this wrong,” OpenAI says in a blog post.
- ▪“This careless, aggressive, and oddly personal lawsuit sadly doesn’t live up to [Apple’s] reputation."Apple claims that two former employees, Tang Yew Tan and Chang Liu, conspired to steal Apple's trade secrets when jumping ship to build ha
- ▪Liu allegedly exploited a bug to access Apple’s shared network folders and failed to return a corporate laptop.
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- ▪ OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal" — Ars Technica
- ▪ OpenAI Posts Public Rebuttal to Apple's Trade Secrets Lawsuit - MacRumors — Google News
- ▪ OpenAI Posts Public Rebuttal to Apple's Trade Secrets Lawsuit — MacRumors
- ▪ OpenAI says Apple 'is getting this wrong' after trade secret lawsuit — Engadget
- ▪ Apple is getting this wrong — OpenAI
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OpenAI is responding to an Apple lawsuit that accuses it of trade secret theft by taking the legal battle to the court of public opinion.“Apple is getting this wrong,” OpenAI says in a blog post. “This careless, aggressive, and oddly personal lawsuit sadly doesn’t live up to [Apple’s] reputation."Apple claims that two former employees, Tang Yew Tan and Chang Liu, conspired to steal Apple's trade secrets when jumping ship to build hardware products for OpenAI. Liu allegedly exploited a bug to access Apple’s shared network folders and failed to return a corporate laptop.
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