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How a bungled email from Apple’s lawyer soured talks with OpenAI before Apple sued

This version of Apple Openai Lawsuit Suit Trade Product Hardware Email Sam Altman Rcna587376 - Technology and Innovation | NBC News Clone was adapted by NBC News Clone to help readers digest key facts more efficiently.

A lawyer for Apple apologized for mixing up two OpenAI employees with the names Wang and Chang.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Abilene, Texas, in September. Kyle Grillot / Bloomberg / Getty Images

Apple alleged in a lawsuit last week that OpenAI “never responded” to its concerns this year about what Apple believed was trade secret theft. But emails reviewed by NBC News show that’s not the full story: OpenAI did respond in February to Apple’s initial outreach. The communications became bogged down and, according to OpenAI, abruptly stopped after an outside attorney representing Apple mixed up the names and email addresses of two OpenAI employees who had the last names Wang and Chang.

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