A two-year-old warning from tech billionaire Elon Musk has resurfaced online following the news that Apple has officially sued its artificial intelligence (AI) partner, OpenAI, for trade secret theft. Apple filed a lawsuit on Friday, July 10, in the Northern District of California, accusing the ChatGPT creator of running a coordinated espionage campaign to systematically steal secret hardware designs, physical prototypes and supplier data.

Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing trade secrets as it seeks to build its own hardware for ChatGPT, a major rupture in a partnership between the iPhone maker and the…

The two companies entered into a high-profile partnership in 2024 when ChatGPT was integrated into the iPhone's operating system.