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OpenAI counters Apple lawsuit with public blog post

OpenAI published a blog post challenging Apple's trade secret theft allegations, sharing communications to dispute the case.

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OpenAI has responded to Apple's lawsuit by publishing a public blog post titled "Apple is getting this wrong," in which the ChatGPT-maker shared iMessage and email exchanges to counter allegations central to the legal dispute.

Apple filed the lawsuit last month, accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets. The case centers on two former Apple employees who have since joined OpenAI: Chang Liu, a former iPhone engineer now working on OpenAI's technical team, and Tang Tan, who spent 25 years at Apple overseeing iPhone and Apple Watch design before becoming OpenAI's chief hardware officer. Apple alleges the pair took confidential information when they departed.

In its blog post, OpenAI characterized Apple's lawsuit as "careless, aggressive, and oddly personal." The company used cherry-picked communications to challenge contradictions it identified in Apple's allegations.

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