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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Apple is still waiting on YouTube revenue data it asked Jon Prosser for over three months ago, a joint filing in its iOS 26 leak lawsuit says. Both defendants are resisting more discovery, so the 15-month-old case is still gathering evidence about a redesign Apple has already shipped.
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Apple wants OpenAI's late-filed testimony kept in the record for its injunction hearing
Apple told the court that OpenAI and io Products stretched an objection capped at five pages into nine pages that reargue its injunction request. Its answer is to keep every disputed filing in the record for the October 14 hearing on slowing OpenAI's hardware work.
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Bricks & Minifigs cites Google Drive logs to unmask whoever runs The BAM Map
Bricks & Minifigs sued the anonymous operators of The BAM Map after filing two copyright takedowns over internal documents the site published. Its complaint swaps copyright for trade-secret and contract claims that point at someone inside BAM's own franchise network.
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OpenAI frames the conduct as ex-colleagues asking questions and a retained offboarding doc. Apple's response says the complaint is about an authentication bug and weeks of downloads.
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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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Apple disputes what an empty timestamp on a departed engineer's Mac mini proves
In a joint filing made public last week, Apple asked to put its own forensic experts on the images the defendants' experts already read, and for OpenAI's records on metal finishes, power management and battery work.
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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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Citizens pleads racketeering over 30-plus mortgage staff who left for SoFi
Citizens brings a civil RICO count over SoFi's hiring of more than 30 of its mortgage employees across nine states, and asks a Connecticut federal court to bar use of the client data and pricing models it says left with them.
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Huawei's 750,000 Ascend chips add up to under a twenty-fifth of Nvidia's 2026 compute
Prosecutors opened in Brooklyn calling Huawei a criminal enterprise, but Epoch AI's numbers put the ceiling on China's AI-chip stack in high-bandwidth memory, which could hold Huawei near 1% of Nvidia's output through 2028.
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OpenAI turns Apple's BYOD habits into its trade-secret defense
Apple's July suit says departing engineers carried hardware designs to OpenAI. OpenAI's answer is that Apple's own habit of pushing work into personal iCloud accounts blurred the boundary it now has to prove was crossed.
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OpenAI asks the court to end Apple's trade-secret suit on pleading specificity
The defendants want dismissal with prejudice, which means the October 1 hearing turns on whether Apple named its secrets precisely enough, not on whether two former employees did what Apple says they did.
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Apple wants devices imaged in 30 days, and the calendar is the whole argument
Apple's reply in its trade-secret suit asks for forensic imaging and a corporate deposition at the outset, and pulls its document window back to before its engineer resigned.
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Archer pays for Wisk in its own stock, and Boeing walks away with 16.5%
Archer Aviation bought its former courtroom adversary plus a software unit and a drone maker. The consideration was equity, and the acquired assets sell things today.
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