… In its complaint, Apple says it uncovered “a pattern of theft of Apple’s trade secrets by OpenAI employees who were formerly at Apple.” In addition to OpenAI, the lawsuit also names IO Products — Jony Ive’s hardware startup, which OpenAI bought in 2025 — along with two specific employees, Tang Tan … …
… They’re spending more money than they’re making at the moment.” It makes sense that OpenAI would want to hire to fill in those hardware gaps and speed up its hardware progress. …
The company is celebrating the history of its GeForce graphics cards through a collection of new trading cards highlighting classic hardware, demos, and games. The GeForce Trading Cards: Series 1 packs will be given away for free at “upcoming live events” and as part of community giveaways. …
… The dismissal request is in response to a lawsuit filed by Apple in July, alleging that former Apple employees that went on to work for OpenAI stole confidential documents to further OpenAI’s hardware development plans. …
… In 2024, Tan left to work on Jony Ive’s hardware company, io, which was acquired by OpenAI last year. OpenAI then appointed Tan as chief hardware officer. …
… Apple alleges they took “secret and confidential information regarding our unreleased technologies, processes, and products” with them to advance OpenAI’s hardware plans. …
… It’s about hardware, specifically “show and tell” of hardware, things like that. Hardware is something that Apple does amazingly and they are pretty much by all accounts the best at. …
… We don’t want that for PC hardware, and we don’t think you should want it either. You shouldn’t feel like you have to buy Valve hardware; you should be able to view it as just one option alongside all the devices for playing games, and select the one that makes sense for you. …
… Will it be at all a good value, or just a cheap piece of Android hardware with a spray of gold paint? …
… On the hardware front, Samsung’s latest phones represent a relatively minor refresh over last year’s S24 series. …