Apple sues OpenAI, alleging former employees stole trade secrets for AI hardware development

Apple has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI and two former employees, alleging a coordinated, undercover operation to steal closely guarded trade secrets. The legal action claims that proprietary engineering designs and unreleased project details regarding AI hardware development were siphoned off. This lawsuit targets the effort to misappropriate sensitive intellectual property, asserting that the defendants engaged in a systematic theft of confidential information to benefit OpenAI's development of artificial intelligence hardware technologies.