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Apple fails to stem data exfiltration, as OpenAI poaches hundreds

Apple accused OpenAI of intellectual property theft through poached employees and a coordinated pattern of institutional misconduct, but its lawsuit also revealed security lapses at Apple as OpenAI poached hundreds of staff, and that Apple uses third-party hosting for sensitive data.

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Apple fails to stem data exfiltration, as OpenAI poaches hundreds
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Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of intellectual property theft through the actions of poached employees as well as "a coordinated pattern of misconduct at an institutional level."

But its lawsuit also described what appears to be a pattern of security lapses at Apple, even as a competitor poached hundreds of its staff.

And we learnt that Apple uses third-party hosting for some of its most sensitive data.

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