The Vergecast · Monday, July 13, 2026
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a "pattern of theft of Apple trade secrets" by former Apple employees now working at the AI company. The lawsuit names OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman, and its former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. Apple claims that OpenAI built a system for these employees to bring confidential information with them.
“Apparently, more than 400 ex-Apple people now work at OpenAI, and Apple's allegation is that OpenAI basically built a system for those people to bring confidential information with them.”
“This is a big accusation and presumably just the beginning of a very long legal process.”
“ChatGPT was part of Siri. It's now very hard to imagine that happening ever again.”