Apple sues OpenAI alleging trade secret theft
The OpenAI-Apple lawsuit is so funny, it’s just exhibit after exhibit of a guy saying “hey guys i have access to this laptop of trade secrets, where do you want them” and ”yeah I’m not meant to have this for sure!”
Jared Cram56The collapse of the AI industry being triggered by its code having been built on the theft of intellectual property is the kind of heavy handed plot twist critics would mock.
äl̤ëẍ40» Tan emailed himself information about Apple's suppliers « How did this guy make it to VP without ever learning the golden rule, "Never send an email you're not comfortable reading out loud in a courtroom"
Chris Washington25OpenAI lawyer: "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Do you actually think OpenAI would resort to stealing to improve their product?"
Luísa20Bros like "man we stole everything on the internet what are we supposed to steal now"
Phil Nelson14It is one of those times I feel ancient. Even in the 90s these guys woulda been run out of town on a rail
Andris Kasparovics3These are not smart people despite their pedigree.
OpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan allegedly helped coach recruits on how to evade Apple’s data security protocols and directed them to bring confidential Apple parts to job interviews at OpenAI. www.wired.com/story/apple-...
RepugnantCon 47All Altman does is steal
Grae Hall40they're all just such massive grifting pieces of shit, and they've got an utterly insane overvaluation that can break the world's economy when the bubble pops
bc13347889.bsky.social11Sam Altman is simply a conman. OpenAI was built on lies and theft from the ground up.
kim9"The iPhone-maker claims OpenAI encouraged poached Apple employees to bring over confidential presentations, secret prototypes, and key supplier details."
fms2000.bsky.social6If this is true than this just shows just how dumb OpenAI is as they can't even conduct a legitimate industrial espionage campaign. Do people not know how to do that anymore? Where is the CIA? They would supposedly know how to steal secrets.
JR Tomlin (she/her)5OpenAI has always been based on theft and nothing but theft, and it is way past time to go after these wankers. If it has to be Apple which has been complicit, well, so be it. It's better than nobody doing it.
charles (young QB agnostic) mcdonald73risking my freedom, finances and long term reputation for a job interview. fair trade.
Paresh Dave52OpenAI responds: "We have no interest in other companies' trade secrets. We remain focused on building innovative technology that empowers people everywhere." -- Drew Pusateri, OpenAI spokesperson
Ashton Pittman46Well, that seems pretty blatant if true.
kim42So frontier AI companies finally found something they can't blatantly steal: Apple hardware
Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛20Wait, so you're telling me the giant environment destroying rape culture theft machine company did theft machine shit?
Dag.15Sam Altman's going to end up in jail. It won't be this year or next, but the man is a federal prisoner waiting to happen one day.
Corbin Smith7hey if you really want this job im gonna need you to do corporate espionage against a company with a higher marker cap than the Catholic Church. dont worry it'll be fine
dani dee⁷ @ writing trash women6Time to remake hit 2001 movie Antitrust starring Ryan Phillippe, probably
earend 🐻 defence situation5I know ai sucks and everyone hates it but what if they pivoted to making the worst phone of all time? Would that help?
burdsandwurds3new headline a year out from now: ftc gives apple the go ahead to acquire openai as part of a court settlement new headline two years out from now: apple shutters openai division as financial losses from ai continue to grow
This is going to be a hell of a lawsuit. Who do we root for: the terrible company or the other terrible company? Apple sued OpenAI for systematically stealing trade secrets to build competing consumer hardware in a scheme carried out at every level of the company. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/10/a...
LannaMick12I honestly think that AI is going to destroy itself, and it can't happen soon enough.....
Lainey9Hopefully it'll be like the old dinosaur movies, where they both fall off a cliff while fighting.
Blue Woman Voting 📎6I also read that the Open AI guy is a pathetic people pleaser, and I think Tim has him tied for that too.
Philo of Alexan4Perhaps the wisdom of the elves can guide us
FUCK DONALD TRUMP4OpenAI 1000x worse. Fuck them.
Spiked Doormat4Whoever wins, we all lose.
Suits btw big corps often don't have clear good guys and bad guys. But what's alleged here certainly sounds v on brand for what i understnad of the internal culture of OpenAI www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
Garrett Bliss 🇺🇦6Theft of other people’s work is one of their core competencies.
PhoenixDogLover3I, for one, am shocked an AI company would steal the intellectual property of others.
Nevertheless, She Persisted2In fairness, this is OpenAI’s entire business model
thepissedoldlady.bsky.social1Appreciate the gift article but I will not be giving the NYT my email address.
BREAKING: Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft, accusing the artificial intelligence startup and its hardware chief of engaging in a coordinated campaign to steal information about upcoming products
Brian Hill14Non-paywalled from CNBC www.cnbc.com/2026/07/10/a... I think OpenAI is screwed on this one. They were pretty blatant.
James Bottomley1I don't give a fig what happens to Apple, but this is a case worth following, AI's basic model is industrial scale theft.
Queen Bree of the Mount Things1So let me get this straight. A corporation has a right to privacy, but flock cameras everywhere, spying on people is just fine
Ranking Z1We should settle these disputes with duels between CEOs
Greg Pak117let them fight gif and such
Nitish Pahwa61congrats to Sam Altman for discovering the concept of intellectual property
Marielza22Who would have thought that OpenAI would steal information?.... 🙄
Jon Kimball3If OpenAI is stealing Apple products they’re worse off than I thought.
Michael Scally2Shame there isn't a way to combine the "Godzilla Let Them Fight" and "Magnitude From Community" GIFs... #FizzVsGaming #FizzVsComics
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft. Specifically, Apple alleges that its former employees have stolen trade secrets “for the benefit of OpenAI.” 9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/a...
percent200pl.bsky.social2Oh good. Start eating each other rather than us.
Michelle.Marie1Let the rich people fight. They might be their own demise.
🇺🇦 🏳️🌈1Bummer for them - maybe if Tim Cook had any scruples I would care.
Steed & Peel 231Perhaps Tim Cook should have spent more focus on this than giving Trump gifts?
colinscott13.bsky.social1The business foundation of all the AI companies is theft.
APPLE SUES OPENAI ALLEGING MISAPPROPRIATION OF TRADE SECRETS, COURT RECORDS SHOW
*APPLE SUES OPENAI FOR TRADE SECRET THEFT IN BLOCKBUSTER CASE *APPLE SAYS ITS EMPLOYEES WERE ENCOURAGED TO SHARE INFORMATION
Dave Lee19Apple in suit: "OpenAI’s nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations, rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misappropriated trade secrets." via @markgurman.bsky.social
Vibecession Forever16Seems bad for our top lad Sam.
iphawk5Funny Apple suing for IP theft. They have been doing it for 20+ years crushing small innovators.
Jacquie5Oh … that’s going to be a problem
Brandi in Occupied Minnesota3Thinking about how hard it is to prove these cases usually and how openai is probably using chatgpt for internal note taking and recording of meetings and how none of that is privileged. AI is going to blow the doors off Discovery.
Leon English2Here's the complaint, if anyone wants to read it (I don't). www.courtlistener.com/docket/73602...
Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺2Of course end users are never ‘encouraged’ to share information .. or are never told about some key defaults .. yeah ok Apple
