2026年7月10日 / 美国东部时间下午6:02 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
记者：梅根·塞鲁洛（Megan Cerullo）
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苹果公司周五起诉ChatGPT开发商OpenAI及其两名高管，指控后者窃取苹果商业机密，以期在人工智能军备竞赛中占据优势。
这起民事诉讼已向加利福尼亚北区联邦地区法院提起，指控OpenAI首席硬件官唐·谭（Tang Tan）以及该公司技术员工刘畅（Chang Liu）窃取苹果专有信息，用于帮助OpenAI开发自有硬件。诉状显示，这两名OpenAI员工此前均曾就职于苹果。
苹果同时指控OpenAI存在“机构层面的系统性 coordinated pattern of misconduct”（协调一致的不当行为模式）。
“本案核心是苹果前员工为OpenAI利益窃取苹果商业机密，”诉状中写道，“苹果提起本次诉讼旨在制止此类行为。”
诉状称，唐·谭在苹果任职二十余年期间，参与设计了iPhone、Apple Watch和iPod。诉状还指控曾在苹果担任八年电气工程师的刘畅，接触过这家科技巨头部分最敏感的产品开发信息。
苹果一名发言人周五在声明中表示，公司将“始终捍卫团队的辛勤工作与创新成果，我们正采取一切适当措施维护权益”。
OpenAI尚未立即回应置评请求。
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OpenAI尚未透露其开发运行自有软件的产品类型，但该公司曾表示，正研究让用户与人工智能互动的新方式，以摆脱“传统产品和界面”的局限，进军实体产品领域。
“从根源上腐朽”
苹果提起诉讼之际，OpenAI正筹备预计规模庞大的首次公开募股。诉状指控OpenAI抛弃非营利初衷，转而追求利润最大化，并推行“将硬件设备推向市场的激进计划”。
苹果指控称，在推出首款硬件产品的压力下，OpenAI“采取了非法捷径”。
诉状称，OpenAI尚处起步阶段的硬件业务“如今根基极不稳固，因非法依赖被盗用的商业机密，从根源上腐朽不堪”。
苹果还表示，曾就指控OpenAI获取机密信息一事与该公司沟通，但称OpenAI从未回应。
“本次诉讼及取证程序，旨在揭露并开始纠正苹果商业机密被大规模窃取的问题，”诉状中写道。
编辑：阿兰·谢特（Alain Sherter）
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Apple sues OpenAI, accusing ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets
July 10, 2026 / 6:02 PM EDT / CBS News
By Megan Cerullo
Megan Cerullo is a New York-based reporter for CBS MoneyWatch covering small business, workplace, health care, consumer spending and personal finance topics. She regularly appears on CBS News 24/7 to discuss her reporting.
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Apple on Friday sued ChatGPT maker OpenAI and two of the firm’s executives, alleging that it stole Apple’s trade secrets to gain an edge in the AI arms race.
The civil suit, filed in the Northern District of California, accuses OpenAI Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan and Chang Liu, a technical staffer at the company, of stealing Apple’s proprietary information to help OpenAI develop its own hardware. Both OpenAI employees formerly worked at Apple, according to the suit.
Apple also accused OpenAI of engaging in a “coordinated pattern of misconduct at an institutional level.”
“This case is about Apple’s former employees stealing Apple’s trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI,” the complaint states. “Apple brings this suit to put a stop to it.”
While employed at Apple for more than two decades, Tan helped design the iPhone, Apple Watch and iPod, according to the lawsuit. The suit also alleges that Liu, a former Apple electrical engineer for eight years, was privy to some of the technology giant’s most sensitive product development information.
An Apple spokesperson said in a statement Friday that the company will “always defend our teams’ hard work and innovations, and we are taking all appropriate steps to do so.”
OpenAI didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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OpenAI has not revealed what types of products it is developing to run its software, but has said it is researching new ways for people to interact with AI beyond “traditional products and interfaces” as the firm makes its foray into physical products.
“Rotten to its core”
Apple’s suit comes as OpenAI is preparing for what is expected to be a massive initial public offering. The complaint accuses OpenAI of abandoning its nonprofit roots in favor of maximizing profits and of pursuing “an aggressive campaign to bring hardware devices to the market.”
Facing pressure to deliver its first hardware product, OpenAI “resorted to taking unlawful shortcuts,” Apple alleges.
OpenAI’s nascent hardware business “now rests on the shakiest of foundations, rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misappropriated trade secrets,” according to the suit.
Apple also said it had approached OpenAI to discuss its allegations that the AI company had obtained confidential information, but claimed OpenAI never responded.
“This lawsuit and the discovery process are needed to expose and begin to remedy the pervasive theft of Apple’s trade secrets,” the suit states.
Edited by Alain Sherter
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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