OpenAI alleges an ex-employee now at Apple sent more than 100 files on an unreleased device to a personal account. Apple, which sued OpenAI in July, says it found no evidence, so each company now faces untested allegations from the other.
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Judge Edward Davila said at a Wednesday hearing that he is "highly likely" to grant Apple an injunction against OpenAI, Bloomberg reported. The order Apple wants covers use of confidential information. For teams that hire from rivals, the exposure is the paper trail behind each hire.
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Apple wants OpenAI's late-filed testimony kept in the record for its injunction hearing
Apple told the court that OpenAI and io Products stretched an objection capped at five pages into nine pages that reargue its injunction request. Its answer is to keep every disputed filing in the record for the October 14 hearing on slowing OpenAI's hardware work.
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OpenAI frames the conduct as ex-colleagues asking questions and a retained offboarding doc. Apple's response says the complaint is about an authentication bug and weeks of downloads.
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Forensics on an Apple-issued MacBook that Chang Liu kept using after January let Apple argue destruction of evidence rather than definition of secrets, days before a judge weighs blocking OpenAI's hardware work.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers The Wall Street Journal puts the price above $300 million for software that replaces a phone's tuned camera pipeline with one network trained per module, already shipping in Honor's 600 series. OpenAI's optics decisions now come first.
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The reported price for Glass Imaging is more than $300 million against a roughly $100 million valuation a year ago and $29.3 million of disclosed venture money in, and OpenAI has not said what the technology is for.
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Apple disputes what an empty timestamp on a departed engineer's Mac mini proves
In a joint filing made public last week, Apple asked to put its own forensic experts on the images the defendants' experts already read, and for OpenAI's records on metal finishes, power management and battery work.
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OpenAI holds out for $1.5tn after investors approached at $1.2tn
The New York Times reports OpenAI is weighing one more private round at about $1.5tn before it lists, roughly double its last valuation. It points to demand for its Codex coding tool to justify the number.
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Glass Imaging trains a separate neural network for each lens and sensor pairing, so the reported purchase hands OpenAI a bench measurement job on every camera it eventually ships. Neither company has confirmed the deal.
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OpenAI asks the court to end Apple's trade-secret suit on pleading specificity
The defendants want dismissal with prejudice, which means the October 1 hearing turns on whether Apple named its secrets precisely enough, not on whether two former employees did what Apple says they did.
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Apple wants devices imaged in 30 days, and the calendar is the whole argument
Apple's reply in its trade-secret suit asks for forensic imaging and a corporate deposition at the outset, and pulls its document window back to before its engineer resigned.
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