Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 5, 2026Published at 1:32 AM EDT · New York
OpenAI Publishes Messages It Says Show Apple Employees Kept Asking a Departed Engineer for Help
The response to Apple's trade-secrets suit argues the access problem was Apple's own offboarding, citing a March group chat that the engineer asked to leave.
OpenAI answered Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit with a public post it titled "Apple is getting this wrong". The post calls the suit careless, aggressive and oddly personal, and states that OpenAI neither holds nor wants Apple's confidential h…
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