OpenAI accuses former employee of leaking unreleased device files to Apple
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- A former OpenAI employee who joined Apple AAPL allegedly transferred more than 100 files related to an unreleased product to a personal account before presenting the product to Apple’s senior leadership, according to a new court filing in the legal dispute between the two companies.
- In the filing in US federal court in San Jose, California, OpenAI alleged the presentation happened months ago and that Apple is now making AI products of its own, citing the release of Apple's HomeView product this week, according to Reuters.
- "OpenAI is very concerned that its trade secret and confidential information is now circulating inside Apple, where Apple engineers can shape Apple’s upcoming products based on OpenAI’s confidential and innovative work," OpenAI said in its filing, according to the report.
- Apple said it has policies and procedures in place to ensure new employees do not use confidential information from previous employers, and it has found no evidence to support OpenAI's allegations.
- The document, filed on Tuesday, is part of an ongoing trade secret dispute filed by Apple earlier this year in which it alleged employees of the iPhone maker left and took confidential information to OpenAI's hardware division. OpenAI has denied those allegations.
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