OpenAI Publicly Rebuts Apple's Trade Secrets Lawsuit With Internal Messages

Executive Briefing

• Apple filed for a preliminary injunction to bar OpenAI and two ex-employees from using alleged confidential information.
• OpenAI published a blog post calling Apple's lawsuit 'careless, aggressive and oddly personal,' denying all wrongdoing.
• Released iMessage exchanges show Apple employees asking former engineer Chang Liu for internal file access after his departure.
• OpenAI revealed Apple's counsel emailed the wrong person for five months before filing suit, publishing the apology email.
• Former Apple design executive Tang Tan, who co-founded io Products with Jony Ive, is also named in the lawsuit.