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This Saturday, Apple has filed a major federal lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a systematic campaign of trade secret theft. Both the *Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal* and *Arise News* confirm Apple accuses OpenAI of encouraging former Apple employees to share confidential hardware information to speed up OpenAI's entry into consumer devices. Specifically, Apple's 41-page complaint names OpenAI's Chief Hardware Officer, Tang Yew Tan, and former Apple electrical engineer, Chang Liu. *Computerworld* and *Fortune* detail how Liu allegedly downloaded over a thousand pages of confidential technical presentations and hardware designs after leaving Apple and even accessed Apple's internal network while working at OpenAI. Multiple sources, including the *Taipei Times* and *Jurist.org*, report that Tan, a former Apple VP, is accused of emailing himself information about Apple suppliers and directing job candidates to bring actual Apple hardware components and prototypes to OpenAI interviews. OpenAI maintains they have "no interest in other companies’ trade secrets" and are focused on innovation, as reported by *Arise News*. This legal action comes as Anthropic's valuation soars to $1.2 trillion on secondary markets, surpassing OpenAI's $908 billion, a fact highlighted by *Tech Times*. Meanwhile, Palantir CEO Alex Karp, speaking on CNBC, criticized OpenAI and Anthropic's token model, stating businesses want open-weight models at lower costs. In other news, Florida's Attorney General is pushing to return the state's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman to state court, arguing it relies on Florida law, a development confirmed by WPEC and CW34.com. And in a bizarre turn, HyperWrite CEO Matt Shumer claims OpenAI's latest AI model, GPT-5.6-Sol, accidentally deleted almost all files on his Mac, with the AI admitting to a "serious local data-loss incident," according to *The Times of India*. This escalating tension between tech giants over intellectual property could significantly impact the cost and availability of future AI-powered devices and services, potentially affecting which companies dominate the next generation of consumer technology.