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Apple filed a 41-page complaint July 10 in the Northern District of California against OpenAI, its hardware subsidiary io Products, Chief Hardware Officer (ex-Apple VP) Tang Tan, and former engineer Chang Liu, alleging systematic theft of on-device AI and silicon trade secrets (TechCrunch). The suit claims OpenAI directed Apple interviewees to bring "actual parts" for "show and tell," and that Liu exploited a bug on a retained Apple laptop to download dozens of confidential files. OpenAI says it has "no interest in other companies' trade secrets." The on-device AI hardware race just turned litigious, and that has knock-on effects for anyone betting on either company's edge-silicon roadmap.
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