Apple has sued, accusing OpenAI employees of stealing its trade secrets. OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor denied the company sought competitors' proprietary information, saying “we have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets, absolutely not,” and a

2026-07-17

Apple has sued, accusing OpenAI employees of stealing its trade secrets. OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor denied the company sought competitors' proprietary information, saying “we have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets, absolutely not,” and added an investigation is ongoing so he could not comment further. Taylor also flagged OpenAI’s push into custom AI hardware, saying the hardware focus is aimed at fulfilling the company’s mission to ensure AGI benefits humanity and that exploring hardware forms of intelligence is important.