By Rishabh Jaiswal and Shubham Kalia <\/p>\n
Aug 5 (Reuters) – OpenAI asked a U.S. judge on Wednesday to dismiss Apple’s lawsuit that accused the ChatGPT \u200cmaker and two former Apple employees of trade-secret theft to help \u200cit expand into consumer hardware, saying it was building something “entirely new.” <\/p>\n
“OpenAI has no use, need or desire \u200bfor Apple’s trade secrets. OpenAI is building something entirely new and different from anything at Apple,” lawyers for OpenAI wrote in the motion to dismiss filed on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
Apple did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on OpenAI’s motion. <\/p>\n
Apple \u200chad alleged in its complaint \u2060in July that OpenAI systematically obtained and exploited Apple’s confidential information through former employees, recruiting practices and supplier relationships to accelerate \u2060its consumer hardware ambitions. <\/p>\n
The lawsuit between the two tech companies set up a battle over who will control future AI devices that may not use traditional apps or operating \u200bsystems \u2014 \u200bdevices which, if successful, would direct consumer \u200battention away from Apple’s best-selling iPhone. \u200cAnalysts believe OpenAI is working on a phone or other device of its own. <\/p>\n
“Apple’s complaint fails to sufficiently describe the information for which it claims trade secret protection; its generalized product development categories are not sufficient to survive a motion to dismiss,” OpenAI said in the filing. <\/p>\n
The company argued that the iPhone maker \u200calso failed to demonstrate it owned “a protectable trade \u200bsecret” or to “plausibly allege misappropriation” by any of \u200bthe defendants. <\/p>\n
“Apple should not be \u200bpermitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up \u200cfor its shortcomings in the market \u200bfor talent and retaining \u200bits employees, and its failures to integrate AI into its products,” the motion said. <\/p>\n
The two companies have an existing partnership that allows Apple users \u200bto access ChatGPT results \u200cthrough Siri, while iPhone users can also sign up for ChatGPT memberships \u200bdirectly from the iOS settings menu. <\/p>\n
(Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; \u200bEditing by Lincoln Feast and Louise Heavens) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Rishabh Jaiswal and Shubham Kalia Aug 5 (Reuters) – OpenAI asked a U.S. judge on Wednesday to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[319,53195,157,3919],"class_list":["post-131364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-apple","tag-consumer-hardware","tag-openai","tag-trade-secrets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}