{"slug": "openai-apple-is-getting-this-wrong", "title": "OpenAI: “Apple is getting this wrong” ↦", "summary": "OpenAI responded to Apple's request for a preliminary injunction in a trade secrets lawsuit, calling the request based on false information and unnecessary, stating it does not have or want Apple's trade secrets. The response, posted on OpenAI's site, includes transcripts of messages and emails to support its case, but The Verge's Jess Wetherbed called it a public opinion play, noting that if OpenAI had evidence, the proper response would be to meet in court.", "body_md": "### by Dan Moren\n\n[OpenAI: “Apple is getting this wrong”](https://openai.com/index/apple-is-getting-this-wrong/)\n\nFrom [an un-bylined post](https://openai.com/index/apple-is-getting-this-wrong/) on OpenAI’s site:\n\nApple’s request for a preliminary injunction is both based on false information and completely unnecessary because we do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets. We’re much more interested in building innovative products and technologies that push the frontier.\n\nThe post itself includes numerous transcripts of message conversations 1 and emails that supposedly bolster OpenAI’s case that it studiously avoided using Apple information.\n\nThis is, as [The Verge’s Jess Wetherbed notes](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/974914/openai-blog-response-apple-lawsuit-messages), a pure public opinion play. Because if they have evidence, the only correct answer is “we’ll see you in court.”\n\nWhat kept running through my head while reading this was the old legal chestnut: “If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.”\n\n-\nI can’t call them screenshots because even though they superficially resembles Messages, they are subtly off—the font, for example, is not correct.\n~~I’m not sure if it’s a screenshot of a third-party app that~~As my pal Lex Friedman points out, it’s all done in HTML, so clearly just a re-creation.*looks*like Messages, or a wholesale re-creation of the conversations in a Messages-like format. My hunch is the latter, but I don’t know.[↩](#fnref-40982-messages)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-apple-is-getting-this-wrong", "canonical_source": "https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/08/openai-apple-is-getting-this-wrong/", "published_at": "2026-08-04 13:21:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-04 16:40:54.647109+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Apple", "The Verge", "Jess Wetherbed", "Dan Moren", "Lex Friedman"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-apple-is-getting-this-wrong", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-apple-is-getting-this-wrong.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-apple-is-getting-this-wrong.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-apple-is-getting-this-wrong.jsonld"}}