Link to: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-11/openai-engineer-s-lol-moment-set-stage-for-legal-fight-with-apple
Gurman on Tang Tan and Paul Meade
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (paywalled, alas):
Apple was quickly alarmed by OpenAI’s recruiting drive, which
included poaching senior hardware and design leaders and ravaging
several teams across its engineering organizations. The practice
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Most of OpenAI’s Apple recruits came from Ternus’ hardware engineering division, and some designers had backed Tan over Ternus…
Suit claims confidential information acquired through former employees, supplier relationships and recruitment, naming former…
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Apple accuses OpenAI and former Apple Vice President Tang Tan of extensive coordinated data theft and asks whether OpenAI's…
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The lawsuit also targets two ex-employees, Tang Yew Tan, now OpenAI’s chief hardware officer, and engineer Chang Liu.
