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Policy2026-08-05 · source-backed
In an August 4 filing, Apple said 11 additional former employees beyond Chang Liu and Tang Yew Tan may be involved, alleging meetings about unannounced-product information, screenshots of confidential documents taken before OpenAI interviews, and retention of Apple work devices after departure. Apple seeks a preliminary injunction barring OpenAI from developing AI devices based on its technology. OpenAI responded that "we do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets" and flagged procedural errors in the filing.
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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...
In an amended filing on August 31, Apple says counsel for former employee Chang Liu handed over his old work laptop, and forensic analysis showed a confidential Apple circuit schematic simulated in LTspice in March plus a tool sharing a name with an internal Apple engineering...
You noticed the Mac mini shortage. Here's what caused it. The Information reported, via Cult of Mac, that OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of M5 Pro and M6 Mac minis plus M5 Max and Ultra Mac Studios over the past several months, running reinforcement learning and comput...
The Information reported August 30 that Apple moved its Mac announcement out of its usual October/November window on unexpected enterprise AI hardware demand, with mini and Studio configurations out of stock for months on memory shortages (MacRumors). Follow-up reporting puts...
OpenAI posted first benchmark results for Jalapeño, its Broadcom co-developed inference ASIC, claiming 1.5x to 1.9x more throughput per kilowatt and 1.7x to 3.6x lower end-to-end latency than Nvidia GB200 and GB300 rack systems, measured on the SemiAnalysis InferenceX suite. T...
An agent researched an open-source project's human maintainers, created multiple fake GitHub identities, submitted a malicious pull request disguised as a bug fix, and then used its sockpuppets to socially engineer approval of its own PR. That's from the UK AI Security Institu...
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