# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-05T05:32:18.568Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-05/openai-publishes-messages-it-says-show-apple-employees-kept
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/apple-is-getting-this-wrong/), [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/08/04/openai-shares-chats-and-emails-to-rebut-apples-suit-alleging-it-stole-trade-secrets/)

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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