Apple alleges OpenAI employee accessed circuit plans after joining startup

SAN FRANCISCO, ‌Aug 31 (Reuters) - ​Apple ​on Monday alleged that a defendant in its ‌trade secret case against ChatGPT creator ⁠OpenAI accessed a power converter circuit ‌schematic while at ‌OpenAI, according to a filing in U.S. federal court.

•Apple alleged ​that Chang Liu, a former Apple senior system electrical engineer, ⁠accessed the circuit and trained an AI ​agent using proprietary Apple information in March 2026.

•Apple says the ​new evidence came to ‌light from a MacBook computer OpenAI provided to ⁠Apple on August 21 as part of legal proceedings.

•Apple is asking ⁠a U.S. federal court to expedite discovery ​proceedings in the trade secret case against OpenAI.

•OpenAI has sought to dismiss Apple's ‌lawsuit, saying it is building products that are "entirely ‌new."

•OpenAI did not immediately respond ⁠to a request ‌for comment.

(Reporting ​by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Matthew ‌Lewis)

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