OpenAI Publishes 'Apple Is Getting This Wrong' With Email and iMessage Receipts, Says Apple's Lawyers Emailed the Wrong Person After Confusing Two Asian Surnames

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OpenAI posted a public rebuttal on August 4 to Apple's July 10 trade-secrets suit over former Apple engineers (Chang Liu and Tang Tan, a 24-year Apple veteran), calling the complaint 'careless, aggressive and oddly personal' and publishing email and iMessage screenshots. OpenAI says Apple's claim that it contacted OpenAI in February and got no response was withdrawn after Apple conceded its outside counsel had emailed the wrong recipient, and that a claimed conversation with OpenAI's General Counsel never happened. The Hacker News thread hit 221 points and 213 comments within six hours, with the dominant reaction being that litigating in public reads as unprofessional regardless of the merits.