Apple has escalated its ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI by asking a federal judge for a preliminary injunction. Apple originally filed its lawsuit on July 10, alleging that former staff members funneled proprietary hardware designs and trade secrets to OpenAI. “Apple will be irreparably harmed absent a preliminary injunction,” the tech giant wrote in its court filing. Hours after Apple filed its court motion, OpenAI responded with a detailed public rebuttal titled “Apple is getting this wrong.” According to OpenAI, the messages show Apple employees asking Liu for help finding technical files after he had already left Apple on January 22.