This past July, Apple sued OpenAI with a litany of sensational claims. Apple's lawsuit also alleges that a former Apple employee who later joined OpenAI used his Apple-issued laptop to access sensitive information even after leaving the company. One of Apple's initial claims said that it contacted OpenAI in February of 2026 about its concerns regarding OpenAI using confidential Apple information, and OpenAI failed to respond. OpenAI claims that Apple's legal team contacted the wrong person "after confusing two Asian last names." So from OpenAI's perspective, they had absolutely no idea that Apple had concerns about trade secret theft until the day the lawsuit was filed.