NBC News reports that talks between Apple and OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft broke down after an outside lawyer for Apple mistakenly emailed the wrong OpenAI employee and confused their interactions. Here are the details.
Report says Apple’s outside counsel mixed up two email recipients
Last Friday, Apple filed a trade secrets theft lawsuit against OpenIA io Products, and two former employees: Chang Liu and Tang Tan.
In the lawsuit, Apple accuses its former employees of stealing confidential hardware information to advance OpenAI’s consumer-device ambitions.
Apple also alleges that OpenAI failed to respond when the company first raised the issue directly in February:
