# OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is ‘rotten to its core’

https://mins.news/en/item/14966

- The Verge, 2026-08-06 09:33 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.theverge.com/tech/976042/openai-apple-trade-secrets-lawsuit-dismissal-request

> OpenAI is asking a federal judge to dismiss Apple’s major lawsuit against the ChatGPT maker. Apple accuses OpenAI of stealing trade secrets. In a motion filed to throw out the complaint, OpenAI calls the allegations meritless. The company also says Apple has wrongly characterized its employees’ conduct as theft and misrepresented generic product-development information.

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