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Apple sues OpenAI, its employees claiming theft of trade secrets
Image caption, Apple CEO Tim cook is leaving the role later this year. Apple has accused OpenAI of gaining access to valuable inside information through the hiring of its former employees. In a federal lawsuit filed on Friday, Apple sued the artificial intelligence (AI) company, two of its employees, as well as io Products, claiming it has engaged in a pattern of theft of Apple's confidential product development and related work. At least two long-time Apple workers who left the company to join OpenAI allegedly took part in this pattern by, in part, emailing themselves internal Apple information. Drew Pusateri, a spokesman for OpenAI, told the BBC: We have no interest in other companies' trade secrets.
Apple sues OpenAI, alleging artificial intelligence company stole trade secrets
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday alleging the artificial intelligence firm stole company trade secrets in a move to create its own hardware device. The suit claims OpenAI poached Apple employees, coaxing them to hand over confidential material, product designs and other tightly held information. "Recently, significant evidence has emerged suggesting individuals employed by OpenAI wrongfully took Apple's secret and confidential information regarding our unreleased technologies, processes, and products," an Apple spokesperson said in an email. Drew Pusateri, a spokesperson for OpenAI, said the company was reviewing the court filing. "We have no interest in other companies' trade secrets," he added.
Canada's Bill C-36 tackles AI privacy. Is it enough?
Canada's Bill C-36 tackles AI privacy. In an era of artificial intelligence, deepfakes and data-driven decision-making, Canada is moving to revise its privacy laws through Bill C-36, the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act. Announced in June, Bill C-36 is Canada's first major overhaul of private-sector privacy legislation in more than 25 years. The bill explicitly recognises privacy as a fundamental right and also aims to give children's personal information stronger protections, enhance deletion rights and require greater transparency where automated systems make significant decisions about people. The 18-year-old shooting suspect allegedly used ChatGPT before the attack. The victims' families are now suing OpenAI, stating the company's AI safety team identified violent prompts but did not alert law enforcement.
Apple calls OpenAI's hardware business 'rotten to its core' in trade secret theft lawsuit
Apple calls OpenAI's hardware business'rotten to its core' in trade secret theft lawsuit Apple calls OpenAI's hardware business'rotten to its core' in trade secret theft lawsuit The lawsuit also names io Products, the hardware company led by Jony Ive. Apple is suing OpenAI and two of its former employees who currently work at the AI company, for theft of its trade secrets. In a lawsuit filed in federal court Friday, Apple alleges extensive misconduct by the company it once partnered with, describing its hardware business as rotten to its core. The lawsuit also names io Products, the Jony Ive-led hardware startup acquired by OpenAI last year, as complicit in the trade secret theft. It doesn't mention Ive by name, but described the organization as complicit in a coordinated pattern of misconduct at an institutional level within OpenAI.
This Should Have Been the Grant Wahl World Cup
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IndyCar and iRacing Studios spill details on series' first video game in twenty years
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Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets
The iPhone-maker claims OpenAI encouraged poached Apple employees to bring over confidential presentations, secret prototypes, and key supplier details. Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its hardware chief on Friday for allegedly stealing the iPhone-maker's trade secrets, including unreleased parts and prototypes, confidential designs, and documents about stealth projects. The lawsuit accuses OpenAI chief hardware officer Tang Tan, who spent 24 years at Apple and oversaw iPhone product design, and his colleagues at the AI company of encouraging people departing or considering leaving Apple to bring with them proprietary and unreleased technology. Tan allegedly helped coach recruits on how to evade Apple's data security protocols and directed them to bring confidential Apple parts to job interviews at OpenAI. "OpenAI's nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations, rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misappropriated trade secrets," Apple says in the lawsuit, which was filed in US district court in San Jose.
OpenAI's browser isn't dead, it just moved to the ChatGPT app
I know a lot of people want to celebrate any stumble OpenAI makes, and rightfully so, but the imminent death of its Atlas browser isn't a sign of a company retreating from a competitive market. If you didn't catch the news yesterday, OpenAI announced, as part of the release of ChatGPT Work, that it would deprecate Atlas on August 9 . Coverage of the news treated it like OpenAI was giving up on the browser space entirely, with headlines like The ChatGPT browser is already dead and OpenAI is shutting down the ChatGPT Atlas browser only months after its release making the rounds. Naturally, people on social media followed suit. For instance, one Bluesky user Pavel took it as an opportunity to round up a number of other dead OpenAI initiatives.