What smart people are saying about Apple's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets
Apple sued OpenAI on Friday, accusing the AI startup of orchestrating a campaign to steal trade secrets from iPhone maker.
Apple CEO Tim Cook (L) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (R) were both at the Sun Valley conference over the weekend. Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday.Getty ImagesApple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday, accusing it of stealing trade secrets.
The iPhone maker accused OpenAI of poaching its engineers and accessing confidential documents.The tech and business world weighed in over the weekend.The AI talent war may now be worthy of a Hollywood adaptation.
In a new lawsuit that reads like a corporate crime thriller, Apple accused OpenAI of poaching former Apple employees, conducting "show and tell" interviews, and accessing confidential documents to accelerate its consumer hardware push.The complaint centers on OpenAI's hiring of an Apple employee who Apple says kept a company laptop, exploited a security bug to access internal systems after leaving, downloaded confidential files, and helped others leaving for OpenAI to evade Apple's exit checks.The complaint also says OpenAI asked candidates to bring physical components to interviews and used a shared supplier to replicate a proprietary Apple metal-finishing process.
In a brief statement on Friday, OpenAI said it had "no interest" in the secrets of other companies. "We remain focused on building innovative technology that empowers people everywhere," a spokesperson said.The bombshell lawsuit between two of the premier tech companies in the world, which were once partners, has generated a lot of reaction.
Here's what smart people are saying about the latest legal battle in Big Tech.Jean Gan, AI governance leaderJean Gan, director of legal, compliance, and enterprise risk at Savills Singapore Group and a Ph.D.
researcher focused on AI and law, said that protecting trade secrets, particularly in California, is difficult."Look at how Apple pleaded this. California courts have largely rejected the inevitable disclosure doctrine, and the state won't enforce non-competes, so Apple can do nothing about the 400 former
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