🇺🇸BREAKING: Apple filed suit against OpenAI today, and the story underneath it is stranger than the headline suggests. This isn't about ChatGPT or Siri. It's about a hardware device nobody outside these two companies has actually seen yet.

At the center of it sits a man named Tang Tan. He used to build iPhones at Apple. Now he runs hardware at OpenAI. Apple claims he used his old insider knowledge, the actual project codenames from his years inside the company, to pull information out of Apple employees who were interviewing for jobs at OpenAI. Some were even told to bring real Apple parts along with them, for what the lawsuit describes as a show and tell.
A second engineer, Chang Liu, left Apple and allegedly kept his company laptop. Apple says he used it to download confidential files before he ever handed in his resignation properly.
None of this happened in secret for long. Apple says it reached out to OpenAI back in February with these concerns. Nobody responded. So today, they went to court instead.
Over four hundred former Apple employees now work at OpenAI. That number alone tells you why a fight like this was probably always coming.