--- title: OpenAI is being sued for stealing, again… | daily.dev description: Apple has filed a 41-page lawsuit against OpenAI alleging trade secret theft tied to OpenAI's hardware ambitions. The suit names OpenAI's hardware chief Tang... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-is-being-sued-for-stealing-again--v8972vvh9 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI is being sued for stealing, again… | daily.dev og:description: Apple has filed a 41-page lawsuit against OpenAI alleging trade secret theft tied to OpenAI's hardware ambitions. The suit names OpenAI's hardware chief Tang... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-is-being-sued-for-stealing-again--v8972vvh9 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/v8972vvh9.png og:image:alt: OpenAI is being sued for stealing, again… og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenAI is being sued for stealing, again… **[Fireship](https://daily.dev/sources/fireship)** · 4 min read · 35 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary Apple has filed a 41-page lawsuit against OpenAI alleging trade secret theft tied to OpenAI's hardware ambitions. The suit names OpenAI's hardware chief Tang Tan, a former Apple VP, and details alleged misconduct including instructing recruits to bring stolen prototypes to interviews, circulating guides to avoid security escorts on resignation, and a senior engineer who exploited an authentication bug to access Apple's network storage after accepting a job at OpenAI — communicating about it on unencrypted channels from an Apple-issued laptop. The backdrop is OpenAI's $6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's startup IO and the poaching of over 400 Apple employees as OpenAI pursues a hardware device intended to compete with the iPhone. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@daniel8000** · 2 upvotes > Epstein class internal war ;} **@hardik15** · 0 upvotes > I think for this reason only they poach the top executives and employees for other top companies. > > To get the knowledge, experience and learning they have about competitors products. **@devfredx** · 0 upvotes > @fireship is here too? Hehe I'm reading this with his voice in my head 😭😂 --- Tags: [#apple](https://daily.dev/tags/apple), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#gpu](https://daily.dev/tags/gpu) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-is-being-sued-for-stealing-again--v8972vvh9) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"OpenAI is being sued for stealing, again…","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-is-being-sued-for-stealing-again--v8972vvh9","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-is-being-sued-for-stealing-again--v8972vvh9"},"datePublished":"2026-07-17T17:57:46.070Z","dateModified":"2026-07-18T06:17:29.243Z","description":"Apple has filed a 41-page lawsuit against OpenAI alleging trade secret theft tied to OpenAI's hardware ambitions. 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