OpenAI alleges an ex-employee now at Apple sent more than 100 files on an unreleased device to a personal account. Apple, which sued OpenAI in July, says it found no evidence, so each company now faces untested allegations from the other.
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Judge Edward Davila said at a Wednesday hearing that he is "highly likely" to grant Apple an injunction against OpenAI, Bloomberg reported. The order Apple wants covers use of confidential information. For teams that hire from rivals, the exposure is the paper trail behind each hire.
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Judge Edward Davila ordered OpenAI to produce interview records for Apple candidates and approved three depositions in Apple's trade secrets suit. OpenAI has five days for material already collected and 14 for the rest, TechCrunch reported.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers Altman says an internal system he would call AGI arrives by the end of 2026. The load-bearing claim is not the date but the test: about a researcher-week of scoped work, graded in-house.
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Forensics on an Apple-issued MacBook that Chang Liu kept using after January let Apple argue destruction of evidence rather than definition of secrets, days before a judge weighs blocking OpenAI's hardware work.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers The Wall Street Journal puts the price above $300 million for software that replaces a phone's tuned camera pipeline with one network trained per module, already shipping in Honor's 600 series. OpenAI's optics decisions now come first.
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The reported price for Glass Imaging is more than $300 million against a roughly $100 million valuation a year ago and $29.3 million of disclosed venture money in, and OpenAI has not said what the technology is for.
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Apple asks a judge to open OpenAI's accounts before the October 1 injunction hearing
Apple wants OpenAI's internal communications, the accounts that held allegedly confidential material and the employees who touched it, all before a hearing on an injunction against a device OpenAI has yet to release.
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