[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-apple-says-ex-employee-fed-it-stolen-chip-data-at-openai":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},5940,"apple-says-ex-employee-fed-it-stolen-chip-data-at-openai","Apple Says Ex-Employee Fed It Stolen Chip Data at OpenAI","New forensic evidence claims an ex-Apple engineer used a stolen schematic at OpenAI and moved to destroy evidence once he learned Apple was investigating.","Apple has filed new evidence in its lawsuit against a former engineer, accusing him of using a stolen circuit schematic at OpenAI and training an AI agent to run it through simulation software.\n\nApple sued former employees Chang Liu and Tang Tan in July for trade secret theft, then recovered a MacBook Liu had kept after leaving the company. Forensic analysis of that laptop, Apple says in the new filing, shows Liu downloaded a confidential Apple circuit schematic two months after he left and ran it through the electrical engineering tool LTspice. Liu also messaged colleagues about training an AI agent to handle the simulation work, writing that in one hour it had \"learned how to run LTspice, look at result, tune compensation parameter.\" Apple further alleges that when Liu learned of an internal investigation into him, he asked an OpenAI colleague to help destroy evidence, and that she agreed.\n\nThis isn't just a personnel dispute. If the claims hold up, they show how easily hardware expertise can cross the line between a device maker and an AI lab competing for the same engineering know-how. Apple is leaning on the AI agent detail specifically to argue OpenAI is actively using its property, not merely storing it, which is the gap between a routine trade secrets case and one that could reach into a product.\n\nOpenAI insists it has no interest in Apple's secrets. Whether that holds up once a judge reviews Liu's own messages is, for now, still an open question.","[\"apple\",\"openai\",\"trade-secret-lawsuit\",\"ai-agents\"]","2026-08-31T20:22:40.000Z","2026-08-31T21:42:24.247Z","2026-08-31T21:42:36.164Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The closing line ('right up until the forensic report lands') implies OpenAI's denial is already disproven, but this is still an unproven allegation in an active lawsuit — rewrite to keep skepticism dry without asserting guilt as fact.","resolved","security",[32,33,34,35],"apple","openai","trade-secret-lawsuit","ai-agents",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"MacRumors","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.macrumors.com\u002F2026\u002F08\u002F31\u002Fapple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secret-theft-evidence\u002F",0,{"sections":42},[43,48,52,57,62,67,72,77,82,87,92,97,102,107],{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"AI","ai",3360,"2026-09-01T20:00:00.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":30,"count":50,"latest_published_at":51},"Security",517,"2026-09-01T21:20:00.000Z",{"name":53,"slug":54,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Policy","policy",260,"2026-09-01T18:19:26.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":59,"count":60,"latest_published_at":61},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":63,"slug":64,"count":65,"latest_published_at":66},"Hardware","hardware",151,"2026-09-01T14:42:22.000Z",{"name":68,"slug":69,"count":70,"latest_published_at":71},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",95,"2026-08-18T16:05:00.000Z",{"name":73,"slug":74,"count":75,"latest_published_at":76},"Science","science",91,"2026-08-20T10:01:48.000Z",{"name":78,"slug":79,"count":80,"latest_published_at":81},"Software","software",73,"2026-08-18T07:51:50.000Z",{"name":83,"slug":84,"count":85,"latest_published_at":86},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",69,"2026-08-18T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":88,"slug":89,"count":90,"latest_published_at":91},"Startups","startups",52,"2026-08-25T18:55:12.000Z",{"name":93,"slug":94,"count":95,"latest_published_at":96},"Gaming","gaming",41,"2026-07-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":98,"slug":99,"count":100,"latest_published_at":101},"General","general",34,"2026-09-01T13:28:43.000Z",{"name":103,"slug":104,"count":105,"latest_published_at":106},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":108,"slug":109,"count":110,"latest_published_at":111},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]