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Even if Apple wins court relief, it will be hard to reverse the knowledge OpenAI allegedly already applied to its hardware development, unless the court orders a clear stop.

The author argues that a legal win for Apple may be largely symbolic, since any knowledge gained from alleged trade secret theft is likely already baked into OpenAI's hardware development. ✦ AI generated

Alex Kantrowitz · Big Technology · 2026-07-13 · original ↗

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Even if Apple gets help from the court, it’s unclear if relief will even matter. If OpenAI did what Apple says, it’ll be hard to reverse the knowledge likely already applied to development of whatever OpenAI is developing — unless the court ordered a clear stop.

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