Court orders OpenAI to hand Apple, on an expedited basis, documents on hiring former Apple employees
Prepared by Sintelligent with the help of SI. Published in SI: . Updated: .
The dispute between Apple and OpenAI over the movement of specialists for a future SI device has reached compelled disclosure of documents; there is no ruling on the merits.
Judge Edward Davila allowed Apple to obtain the materials from OpenAI's interviews with former Apple employees who applied to its consumer hardware and robotics groups: checklists, guides, scripts, technical presentations and records of whether Apple technologies came up in the interviews. OpenAI has five days to turn over documents it has already collected and 14 days for the rest. The court also allowed access to private LINE messages between people involved in the case, including OpenAI employees Chang Liu and Alyssa Peng, and depositions of Liu, Peng and OpenAI's chief hardware officer Tang Yew Tan. The judge denied Apple's request for expedited access to OpenAI's research on subjects such as metal finishes and power management. Apple filed the trade secrets suit in July: it alleges that former employees downloaded confidential materials and coached candidates on what to bring to interviews; OpenAI's position on the suit is not given in the text that was read.
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