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A legal battle between Apple and OpenAI over the ChatGPT-maker’s secretive device project escalated this week when the artificial intelligence (AI) developer called the iPhone-maker’s allegations “baseless” and asked for the lawsuit’s dismissal.
Apple sued OpenAI last month in San Jose, California, accusing the AI company of orchestrating a campaign to steal the iPhone maker’s trade secrets via former employees as it tries to develop its own consumer hardware device.
In a new court document filed Monday, Apple described OpenAI’s actions as “repeated instances of deliberate theft.”
“OpenAI should not be permitted to use Apple’s secrets to gain an unjust head start in its hardware ambitions,” the iPhone-maker says.
