BREAKING: Apple sued OpenAI and hardware chief Tang Tan, alleging trade-secret theft to build its consumer AI device.


The complaint says Tan directed candidates still at Apple to bring "actual parts" to interviews, and counts over 400 former Apple employees now at OpenAI.
Apple's filing Friday in the Northern District of California, also naming engineer Chang Liu and io Products. It seeks an injunction and damages, says a February letter to OpenAI went unanswered, and OpenAI has not yet commented.
The companies remain partners, with ChatGPT integrated into Apple Intelligence since 2024, and OpenAI's first device is slated for the first half of this year.
The filing calls OpenAI's hardware business "rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misappropriated trade secrets."
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