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Good morning. Apple's trade-secrets fight with OpenAI just got a lot more serious. In a new court filing, Apple says a former engineer named Chang Liu carried a confidential circuit schematic with him when he left for OpenAI, and that Liu enlisted a colleague to help destroy evidence once he learned Apple was investigating him. The claims surfaced after Liu's lawyers handed over his old Apple work laptop this month, and Apple says OpenAI knew about his access to its internal data the whole time. This isn't just another Silicon Valley personnel dispute — it's a hardware company accusing the world's most prominent AI lab of absorbing its proprietary engineering work, with allegations of evidence tampering attached. Litigation over what AI companies borrow, and from whom, is becoming one of the industry's defining fault lines. Below: today's five recent stories across markets, AI, policy, and security. | |||||
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