Apple says its secrets walked out the door. OpenAI says Apple held the door open.
The fight over the next device is happening in a courtroom before either company will say what the device is.
"Apple asked a U.S. judge for a preliminary injunction to bar OpenAI and two former employees from using its alleged trade secrets, naming 11 more ex-employees; OpenAI called the suit 'careless, aggressive, and oddly personal'" [SOURCE ↗]
THE ACCUSATION. Apple wants a federal judge to freeze OpenAI out of its trade secrets. Two ex-employees named. Eleven more flagged. One allegedly took screenshots of an unannounced product's files right before an OpenAI interview, which is not what innocence usually looks like.
THE COMEBACK. OpenAI's response calls the suit 'careless, aggressive and oddly personal', then lands the counterpunch: Apple's own staff asked the departed engineer to retrieve files, and Apple blamed him for the hole in its own offboarding.
THE NUMBER THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING. over 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI, per the complaint itself. Hire that many people from one company and the courtroom books itself.
WHAT NOBODY HAS PROVEN. that a single Apple file touched the io device. Or what the io device even is. Two of the richest companies on Earth are in federal court over a product neither will describe.
On August 4, 2026, Apple asked a U.S. federal judge for a preliminary injunction to bar OpenAI and two former Apple employees from using its alleged trade secrets, and flagged 11 more ex-employees who may have taken confidential data. OpenAI's response called the suit "careless, aggressive, and oddl
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