OpenAI seeks dismissal of Apple's trade-secrets suit, calls it pretextual

A federal judge should dismiss Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit, OpenAI said Wednesday. The company says the case is a cover-up for its inability to retain engineers and ship AI.

The motion to dismiss claims that OpenAI and two former Apple employees took confidential information and tried to steal trade secrets while recruiting interviews. The 31-page filing uses variations of the word “fail” about 50 times and frames the dispute as Apple lashing out over its problems.

OpenAI’s motion leans on the word “fail”

“Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its shortcomings in the market for talent and retaining its employees, and its failures to integrate AI into its products,” the motion says.

The central claim in the lawsuit filed by OpenAI is that Apple created the mess. Apple told staff to use their personal iCloud accounts to route work, blurring the line between corporate and personal data and leaving departing employees with access they never asked for, says OpenAI.

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