OpenAI Is Trying to Shame Apple Into Backing Down From Its Lawsuit
The tech industry reeled last month when Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets as the startup builds its nascent AI hardware business. “Apple is one of the greatest companies of all time, and built a reputation for obsessing over the smallest details,” the post reads. “This careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit sadly doesn’t live up to that reputation.” The lawsuit accuses Chang Liu, a former Apple staff member who left the company in January to join OpenAI, of using a former colleague’s company-owned laptop to download technical documents, among other infractions.
- ▪The tech industry reeled last month when Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets as the startup builds its nascent AI hardware business.
- ▪“Apple is one of the greatest companies of all time, and built a reputation for obsessing over the smallest details,” the post reads.
- ▪“This careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit sadly doesn’t live up to that reputation.” The lawsuit accuses Chang Liu, a former Apple staff member who left the company in January to join OpenAI, of using a former colleague’s compan
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The tech industry reeled last month when Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets as the startup builds its nascent AI hardware business. In a blog post published late Tuesday night, OpenAI dismissed the lawsuit as a baseless witch hunt—and said it has the evidence to prove it.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000794427","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"artificial-intelligence","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"artificial-intelligence","TAGS":"ai,apple,intellectual-property,law,openai","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); The post, titled “Apple is getting this wrong,” has…
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