Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with industry reaction and additional details.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) sued OpenAI in federal court in Northern California on Friday, accusing the AI company of taking Apple’s trade secrets to accelerate its own push into consumer devices.
The complaint lands as publishers seek court sanctions against OpenAI in a separate Manhattan case tied to what they allege were misleading statements about tracking copyrighted material inside its systems.
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Apple’s filing, reported by CNBC, frames the dispute as a sharp break from the companies’ 2024 collaboration that brought ChatGPT into the iPhone’s software. That partnership has since cooled after OpenAI moved toward building hardware, including a $6.4 billion purchase of former Apple designer Jony Ive’s startup, IO Products.
