WSJ Tech News Briefing · Tuesday, September 1, 2026
OpenAI has responded to Apple's trade secret theft lawsuit, calling it baseless in a late-night filing. The AI company claims Apple's suit aims to hinder its recruitment of new employees and its development of competing technology, suggesting many accusations stem from poor offboarding procedures at Apple.
“In a late-night filing, Open AI asserted that Apple failed a baseless lawsuit in an attempt to hamper its ability to recruit new employees and ultimately stalled its effort to develop competing technology.”
“According to Open AI, many of the accusations boiled down to poor offboarding procedures inside the iPhone maker.”
“Apple's suit, filed in July, accuses two former employees, including Open AI's chief hardware officer Tang Tang, of obtaining Apple's confidential information by various means.”