Apple targets former employees in battle with Sam Altman's OpenAI

Apple has taken aggressive new legal actions against Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Just days after launching a trade secrets lawsuit, the iPhone maker has targeted dozens of its own former employees (now working for the ChatGPT maker) with stern personal legal warnings. Citing sources familiar with the situation, The Financial Times reported that Apple’s legal team has hit roughly 40 former employees with formal letters, issuing a directive to preserve all internal documents, notes and electronic communications, while demanding face-to-face meetings with Apple’s corporate lawyers. Apple’s legal offensive began when it filed a federal lawsuit accusing OpenAI of orchestrating a coordinated campaign to steal secret hardware designs, engineering processes and manufacturing blueprints to jumpstart its own device business.