OpenAI Countersues Apple Over Trade Secret Lawsuit: Using Lawsuits to Hinder AI Hardware Competition, Vulnerabilities in Its Own Information Management

TechFlow news, August 6, according to TechCrunch, OpenAI is fighting back against Apple's lawsuit regarding trade secret leaks, claiming that Apple's own information security management and employee departure processes have vulnerabilities, making it unable to prove that the relevant information belongs to protected trade secrets.

Apple previously accused OpenAI of obtaining hardware-related secrets through former employees who joined OpenAI from Apple, and requested the court to expedite the evidence investigation. OpenAI stated in the latest submitted legal documents that Apple allowed employees to use personal iCloud accounts to handle work materials and did not timely revoke access permissions after employees departed. OpenAI claimed that Apple did not clearly specify the concrete trade secrets that were stolen, but only referred generally to information such as product development processes, supply chains, and testing.

OpenAI believes that Apple's lawsuit is primarily intended to restrict its development in the AI hardware field, and denies that the company needs or uses Apple trade secrets. The focus of the dispute between both parties centers on employee mobility, intellectual property protection, and the AI hardware competition field.