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Why Apple sued OpenAI over a manufacturing technique
Apple has sued OpenAI for alleged industrial espionage over its manufacturing know-how, just as OpenAI ships its first branded hardware.
Apple has sued OpenAI over alleged industrial espionage tied to its manufacturing techniques. The lawsuit landed the same week OpenAI released its first branded hardware, the Codex Micro, a small keyboard co-developed with Work Louder that has six illuminated keys signalling the status of a user's AI coding agents.
OpenAI says it has no interest in other companies' trade secrets.
- US$230
- Device price
- Six illuminated keys
- Keys on device
- Late 2022
- ChatGPT launch
- Work Louder
- Hardware co-developer
Why it mattersAs AI companies push beyond the chat window into physical devices, they collide with a world where manufacturing secrets are guarded as fiercely as code.
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