Allegation that former employee of OpenAI took confidential documents of unreleased device to Apple

According to The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI included the claim in the file it submitted within the scope of the ongoing lawsuit with Apple.

In the filing, OpenAI claimed that its former employee took more than 100 confidential documents to Apple, such as engineering and manufacturing data, supplier information and internal project documents related to the device that was under development and not yet released.

OpenAI claimed that the former employee sent the documents to his account on June 2, his last day at the company, before returning to Apple, where he had previously worked.

OpenAI also argued in the filing that the former employee presented the company's product plans to Apple's senior executives and that this information may have helped Apple advance its plans for AI-enabled products, including smart home devices, which it announced on Tuesday.

Apple, on the other hand, denied the accusations and claimed that OpenAI did not provide any evidence to support its claims and that they were intended to distract attention from another ongoing case between the two companies.

Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly "stealing its trade secrets"

US technology giant Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in July, claiming that they "stole the company's trade secrets and confidential information" in order to develop new consumer hardware.

While Apple argued that OpenAI's hardware strategy was "based entirely on stolen trade secrets" and "is illegal," it also blamed its former employees Tang Yew Tan and Chang Liu, who joined OpenAI.

In the case file, it was claimed that Tang Yew Tan asked candidates who were currently working at Apple and applied for a job at OpenAI to bring Apple's confidential hardware parts to the interviews, and that Chang Liu infiltrated the Apple network through his former colleague's computer and downloaded dozens of confidential hardware files belonging to unreleased products.

In the file, it was claimed that OpenAI gave special tactics to employees who were in the process of leaving Apple to extend their access to the company's systems, and also asked hardware companies to apply the special metal coating technique invented by Apple and misled these companies by making them believe that "Apple had permission".

In the file, Apple demanded the immediate cessation of use of trade secrets, the return of all confidential and proprietary materials, and the payment of financial compensation for the damage suffered.