Apple Accuses Ex-Engineer Chang Liu of Destroying Evidence, Using AI on Secret Schematics
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Updated · Computerworld · Sep 1
Apple Accuses Ex-Engineer Chang Liu of Destroying Evidence, Using AI on Secret Schematics
3 articles · Updated · Computerworld · Sep 1
Summary
Apple says former engineer Chang Liu not only took confidential circuit board schematics to OpenAI but also built an AI agent to run simulations from them, escalating its trade-secret case.
Forensic evidence is central to Apple’s push for expedited discovery, which it says is needed because trade secrets fed into AI systems may be irreversibly used; OpenAI calls the claims meritless.
Oct. 1 is the next key court date, when Judge Edward J. Davila is set to weigh Apple’s new evidence against OpenAI’s denials and decide whether to grant faster access to more devices and records.
More than 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI, and the dispute is also sharpening scrutiny of whether Apple’s post-Jony Ive design organization became vulnerable to defections and leaks.