Apple is hiring OpenAI — and it's furious they stole its staff
openai asked a judge to dismiss apple's trade secret lawsuit, calling the claims 'meritless' and a reaction to apple's failures in ai talent retention.
openai requested a federal judge toss apple's lawsuit alleging the theft of confidential documents for hardware development, claiming apple failed to prove the info was a trade secret or that employees like chang liu stole it rather than helping former colleagues. openai argues the suit is a pretext for apple's inability to retain engineers and integrate ai, seeking to prevent an injunction restricting its use of the information. the outcome will define how aggressively big tech can use litigation to slow competitors' recruiting, with arguments scheduled for october 1.