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This episode discusses OpenAI's hardware ambitions and the lawsuit filed by Apple against the company over alleged trade secret violations.

This week's episode of The MacRumors Show covers OpenAI's move into hardware and the trade secret lawsuit Apple filed against the company earlier this month. Apple sued OpenAI in the Northern District of California on July 10, alleging a months-long scheme to obtain confidential information about unreleased products. The complaint centers on OpenAI chief hardware officer Tang Tan, a 24-year Apple veteran who previously led iPhone product design, and former Apple electrical engineer Chang Liu. Apple claims Tan coached recruits on evading its exit-interview security procedures and told at least one employee to bring hardware components to an interview, and that OpenAI persuaded a supplier to apply a proprietary metal-finishing technique to an OpenAI device by falsely stating it had Apple's permission. The filing describes OpenAI's hardware business as "rotten to its core." The suit follows a souring of the 2024 partnership that brought ChatGPT to Siri , with OpenAI itself weighing legal options against Apple in May. More than 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI, including Vision Products Group leader Paul Meade , and former design chief Jony Ive leads design on the…

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Host: The MacRumors Show

Topics covered

• OpenAI
• Apple
• lawsuit
• hardware
• iPhone
• confidential information

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Organizations: OpenAI, Apple

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