Apple has filed a motion demanding expedited discovery in its trade secrets litigation against OpenAI.
The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI and some former Apple employees now at the AI firm deliberately worked to exfiltrate valuable trade secrets from Apple. The initial allegations describe a series of serious attempts to grab this information, including one claim that OpenAI attempted to get a partner manufacturer to demonstrate proprietary Apple manufacturing process technology. Apple argues that this information is not free, belongs to Apple, and reflects decades of effort in building the tech.
OpenAI’s counter arguments so far have been easy to paraphrase; it’s claimed that if Apple hadn’t wanted its secrets to slip, it would have put more security in place to protect them.
The company has also said it is making something completely new, so it doesn’t need Apple’s secrets anyway. But that doesn’t seem to add up against the evidence Apple has provided so far, though I’m neither judge nor lawyer; the case will be decided in the court, not here.
A familiar defense
