Odaily Planet Daily reports: OpenAI has issued a statement responding to Apple’s prior trade secret lawsuit, calling Apple’s allegations "reckless, aggressive, and factually incorrect," and has released email records as evidence. OpenAI stated that Apple’s claim of having contacted the company in February without receiving a response is inaccurate—actually, Apple’s external counsel mistakenly sent the email to the wrong person due to a name confusion; Apple has also acknowledged that it did not communicate with OpenAI’s general counsel regarding this matter.
Apple previously accused OpenAI of obtaining confidential information through former Apple employees Chang Liu and Tang Tan. OpenAI denied the allegations, stating that Apple employees continued to reach out to Liu for documents and technical questions after his departure, due to Apple's failure to promptly revoke his system access.
Previously, Apple accused former engineer Chang Liu of exploiting a system vulnerability after his departure to access the internal cloud storage and download dozens of confidential files to assist OpenAI in hardware development. (Business Insider)