Apple filed a lawsuit in July against OpenAI, its hardware company io Products, and two former Apple employees, Chang Liu and Tang Yew Tan, alleging the misappropriation of trade secrets. ^[1] Apple alleged in a U.S. federal court filing that a defendant in its trade secret case against OpenAI accessed a power converter circuit schematic while working at OpenAI. ^[2] Apple alleged that a defendant in its trade secret case trained an AI agent using proprietary Apple information, according to the legal filing. ^[3] Apple sued OpenAI on July 10 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing OpenAI of trade secret theft regarding unreleased consumer hardware. ^[4] Apple alleges that initial forensic analysis of Chang Liu's returned MacBook revealed the use of a downloaded confidential Apple circuit schematic and an internal engineering application tool. ^[5] Apple claims that Liu sent instructions to another OpenAI employee to destroy evidence after discovering an internal investigation, and that the employee confirmed compliance. ^[6]