--- title: The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit... description: Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains a series of striking allegations detailing a coordinated effort to extract confidential information from... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-wildest-allegations-in-apple-s-trade-secrets-lawsuit-against-openai-rjwb5lhew twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI | daily.dev og:description: Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains a series of striking allegations detailing a coordinated effort to extract confidential information from... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-wildest-allegations-in-apple-s-trade-secrets-lawsuit-against-openai-rjwb5lhew og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RjWB5lHew.png og:image:alt: The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI 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. # The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains a series of striking allegations detailing a coordinated effort to extract confidential information from current and former Apple employees. Key claims include an ex-Apple engineer joking about exploiting an authentication bug to access Apple's network storage, OpenAI's Chief Hardware Officer directing job candidates to bring actual Apple parts and prototypes to interviews, OpenAI coaching departing Apple employees on how to evade Apple's security walkout procedures, and the io design firm (acquired by OpenAI for $6.5B) allegedly using Apple's proprietary metal-finishing techniques. The complaint also notes over 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI, and Apple suggests the documented misconduct is only the tip of the iceberg ahead of discovery. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [OpenAI Is Being Sued… Again. 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