Apple to OpenAI: Go to your room

Apple’s latest filing in its ongoing fight with OpenAI makes it sound as if Apple legal is so frustrated at the arguments the AI firm is making that it’s begun swatting them away like a parent might dismiss a child. Apple v. OpenAI: The story so far If you’ve not been keeping up with tech’s latest legal soap opera, here’s the overview of what’s true: Apple filed a suit against OpenAI in which it accused the company of scheming to get confidential product information out of former Apple employees hoping to get jobs at generative AI (genAI) bigwig. Apple’s filing includes plenty of evidence designed to show a pattern of deliberately targeted exfiltration. Apple followed this up with additional letters requiring that around 40 OpenAI employees preserve documents and communications relevant to the trade secrets lawsuit. Following an open letter that failed to shift public opinion, OpenAI responded with its own motion; it argues that Apple had not defined what it sees as protectable trade secrets. It also suggested that it was Apple’s fault any secrets slipped out because it made it too easy to get to them. (I call this the “Cookie Jar” defense, as it basically says no cookies would ha…