India, July 11 -- Apple Inc. (AAPL) announced that it filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against two former senior employees, Chang Liu and Tang Yew Tan, along with OpenAI Foundation, OpenAI Group PBC, and io Products LLC. The complaint alleges trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract.
Apple claims that Liu, a former Senior System Electrical Engineer, and Tan, a former Vice President of Product Design for iPhone and Apple Watch, took confidential information to benefit OpenAI's hardware ambitions. According to the filing, Liu retained an Apple-issued laptop, exploited a network bug to access Apple's systems, and downloaded confidential files related to unreleased products. Tan, no...