{"text":[[{"start":8.6,"text":"OpenAI has accused Apple of trying to stem an employee exodus to the ChatGPT maker with a “baseless and pretextual” trade secrets lawsuit and has asked a US court to dismiss the landmark case."}],[{"start":21.1,"text":"It marks OpenAI’s first legal rebuttal of Apple’s claims that the start-up used former and current Apple employees to steal information about its secret hardware projects, as OpenAI prepares to launch its own AI device."}],[{"start":33.8,"text":"By suing, Apple is trying to “make up for its shortcomings in the market for talent and retaining its employees, and its failures to integrate AI into its products”, OpenAI claimed in a filing to a federal court in California on Wednesday."}],[{"start":46.72,"text":"“But California law and policy not only permit but encourage such employee mobility, which has been credited with powering the tech revolution that has made companies based in this state the envy of the world,” it said."}],[{"start":58.84,"text":"The case offers rare insight into how the relationship between the world’s second-most valuable listed company and Sam Altman’s $852bn AI model developer has unravelled."}],[{"start":69.56,"text":"OpenAI argued that Apple failed to identify specific confidential information that was allegedly stolen and mischaracterised its own deficient “offboarding” procedures, which led to bungled communications with employees who had already left."}],[{"start":82.24,"text":"Apple also wrongly asserted that information regarding its suppliers was proprietary rather than information that could be legally or publicly obtained, said OpenAI."}],[{"start":91.4,"text":"The ChatGPT maker acquired io Products, the studio founded by former Apple design chief Jony Ive, for $6.4bn last year. Along with peers such as Meta, it has aggressively hired from Apple over the past two years as the iPhone maker faces delays in launching its own AI products."}],[{"start":108.32,"text":"Ive is not named as a defendant in the case."}],[{"start":111.48,"text":"“Since io Products’ founding, hundreds of Apple designers and engineers have chosen to leave their jobs at Apple to join OpenAI’s effort to design a new family of devices for the AI era,” said OpenAI in its filing."}],[{"start":123.38,"text":"The company is planning a palm-sized AI gadget without a screen that takes audio and visual cues from the environment, the FT previously reported."}],[{"start":131.72,"text":"Apple’s lawsuit in July came barely two years after the companies partnered to bring new AI features based on ChatGPT to Apple devices."}],[{"start":139.92,"text":"The iPhone maker later partnered with Google in January, using its Gemini models to power “Siri AI” — seen as a snub to OpenAI, though ChatGPT integration still exists on Apple devices."}],[{"start":152,"text":"Two current OpenAI employees formerly at Apple, including its hardware chief Tang Tan, were named in the lawsuit. Apple has since targeted dozens of its former employees now working at OpenAI with legal letters."}],[{"start":164.76,"text":"Apple claimed Tan used job interviews with Apple employees to grill them over secret Apple projects and urged them to bring the company’s prototypes to interviews."}],[{"start":173.64,"text":"OpenAI’s filing on Wednesday argued that Apple failed to identify any specific confidential information gleaned from the company “as opposed to the sort of background any employer might ask about in an interview”, such as their experience with Apple parts or components that are already widely available."}],[{"start":190.44,"text":"Apple had also alleged that electrical engineer Chang Liu pulled secret files from the company before and after he joined OpenAI."}],[{"start":197.68,"text":"OpenAI argued this was “requested and authorised by Apple itself” as Apple had asked Liu to retrieve important information from his account after he was “hastily walked . . . out of the door” when he announced his resignation."}],[{"start":210.04,"text":"OpenAI added that Apple encouraged its employees to use their personal iCloud accounts for work, “intermingling company and personal data, while failing to manage access cleanly across multiple Apple systems when employees departed”."}],[{"start":223.36,"text":"Earlier this week Apple asked the California judge in the case to issue an injunction against OpenAI to stop it from using its allegedly stolen trade secrets and to preserve evidence. A hearing is currently scheduled for October."}],[{"start":236.48,"text":"The judge, Edward Davila, also presided over the high-profile criminal trial of former Theranos chief executive Elizabeth Holmes and business partner Sunny Balwani in 2021 and 2022."}],[{"start":248.72,"text":"Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment."}],[{"start":256.72,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1786010128_3156.mp3"}