This Wednesday morning, Apple has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging systematic theft of trade secrets to build a competing consumer hardware device. Both Memeburn and Business Insider confirm Apple's complaint names OpenAI, two former Apple employees—Tang Tan and Chang Liu—and Jony Ive’s hardware startup io Products as defendants.

The lawsuit claims OpenAI’s hardware division was built on stolen Apple intellectual property. Apple alleges a former engineer used an old company lapt