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This article centers on a high-stakes legal dispute involving alleged trade secret theft and the misuse of specific Apple engineering data for OpenAI's development. The core subject matter is the intersection of proprietary technology protection, intellectual property litigation, and the operational security of AI model training using stolen hardware schematics.
Apple shares ‘shocking evidence’ against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI

Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation.
In its lawsuit against OpenAI, Apple filed what it calls “shocking evidence” to bolster its allegations that former employees stole trade secrets for OpenAI’s benefit. These new details emerged after the legal counsel for former Apple employee Chang Liu — who now works at OpenAI — handed over Liu’s old…
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