OpenAI wants Apple’s trade-secrets case thrown out
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High-profile trade-secret litigation between AI labs and platform giants will shape how training data, employee mobility, and model provenance are treated in court. If you’re training models on partner or customer data, tighten your contractual language and audit trails now — discovery in someone else’s lawsuit could pull you in.
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