OpenAI Blasts 'Careless' Apple Lawsuit In Fiery Public Response
High-stakes Silicon Valley lawsuits are usually dry, legally cautious affairs fought through polite corporate PR statements, but OpenAI just threw out the rulebook with a scorching, highly irregular blog post that essentially accuses Apple of sloppy legal work, administrative incompetence, and an "oddly personal" grudge against its former employees.
To understand why this feud is exploding in public, you have to look at what triggered Apple's lawsuit in the first place. Last month, Apple sued OpenAI, the AI firm's recently acquired consumer hardware arm io Products, and two former Apple veterans: former iPhone engineer Chang Liu and former hardware VP Tang Tan. Apple's narrative was classic corporate cloak-and-dagger; the fruit company claimed departing engineers were raiding Apple's proprietary trade secrets and unreleased hardware designs to help OpenAI build a competing consumer AI device. Apple even asked a federal judge for a rapid preliminary injunction to freeze OpenAI in its...
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