OpenAI asked a federal judge on August 5 to dismiss Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, arguing Apple never identified any specific secret and only described broad product categories. The 31-page motion also calls the case pretextual cover for Apple's talent losses and AI failures.
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OpenAI just asked a federal judge to throw out Apple's trade secrets lawsuit. The argument isn't that nothing was taken. It's that Apple never said what was taken. Apple described categories. Hardware designs. Manufacturing processes. Supply chain strategy. Those aren't secrets, they're departments. And here's what most coverage is missing. A judge in that same courthouse already tossed this exact theory against OpenAI, twice, when xAI tried it. Apple has better facts than xAI did. But better facts about two engineers still have to reach the company. That's the gap the whole case turns on.