OpenAI tells the court Apple’s trade-secret case is “a mess of Apple’s own making”
OpenAI has told a federal court that Apple created the conditions it is now describing as theft. “This dispute is a mess of Apple’s own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else,” the company said in a filing lodged late Monday in the US District Court in San Jose, according to Reuters.
The filing responds to the lawsuit Apple brought in July, which accused departing employees of taking hardware designs to OpenAI, including prototypes that were allegedly shown during job interviews. OpenAI denies that it took any Apple trade secrets.
The original complaint was unusually detailed for a trade-secret case, describing prototypes that Apple said were produced during what it characterised as show-and-tell interviews.
Those allegations make for a striking story, although proving that information was actually misappropriated is a different matter.
OpenAI’s defence focuses less on what individual employees may have done and more on how...
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