苹果公司和OpenAI将于本周三出庭，进行这场针对这家人工智能公司的首场高风险听证会，苹果指控其策划窃取即将推出产品的专有信息。
Inc. and OpenAI are heading to court for the first high-stakes hearing in the iPhone maker’s lawsuit accusing the artificial intelligence company of scheming to steal proprietary information about upcoming products.
本次听证会的议程包括两项关键议题：苹果请求法院下达命令，要求OpenAI立即停止使用据称被盗的商业机密；以及OpenAI单独提出的请求，要求驳回苹果的全部诉讼。
Two critical issues are on the agenda for a hearing Wednesday: a request by Apple for a court order that would require OpenAI to immediately stop using allegedly stolen trade secrets and a separate demand by OpenAI to dismiss Apple’s lawsuit entirely.
尽管双方在两年前曾合作，将ChatGPT嵌入苹果软件，但公司之间已争执数月。争端起因于数百名苹果员工跳槽至OpenAI，这也为该初创公司在争取1.4万亿美元估值并准备上市的过程中蒙上阴影。
The companies have been at odds for months, despite a two-year-old partnership that wove ChatGPT into Apple software. The dispute arose while hundreds of Apple employees defected to OpenAI and has put a cloud over the startup as it targets a $1.4 trillion valuation and prepares to go public.
苹果于七月起诉OpenAI、其硬件主管以及一名前iPhone硬件工程师，指控他们共谋从前苹果员工处获取涉及产品设计、制造、组件技术、测试方法以及公司供应链的机密信息。
Apple sued OpenAI, its hardware chief and a former iPhone hardware engineer in July, accusing them of conspiring to extract confidential information from former Apple employees related to product design, manufacturing, component technologies, testing methodologies and the company’s supply chain.
在诉状中，苹果称OpenAI正利用这些信息“推动OpenAI进入消费硬件市场的努力”。OpenAI强烈否认指控。该初创公司辩称，苹果的诉讼旨在限制员工跳槽至竞争对手，并试图将“普通的求职面谈”描绘为商业机密侵权行为。
In its suit, Apple said OpenAI is exploiting that information to “advance OpenAI’s efforts to enter the consumer hardware market.”OpenAI has vehemently denied the allegations. The startup argues that Apple’s lawsuit is an effort to restrain employees from leaving for a competitor, and that the company seeks to cast “ordinary job interviews as acts of trade secret misappropriation.”
OpenAI在十月的法院文件中表示：“OpenAI正在开发面向AI时代的新系列设备，OpenAI既不需要也不想要苹果的商业机密。”彭博社报道，OpenAI的首款消费硬件产品将是一款圆环形智能音箱，售价超过300美元。公司内部人士认为，这是一款以AI为中心的全新设备，与苹果即将发布的任何产品都不同。
“OpenAI is developing a new family of devices designed for the AI era,” the company said in an October court filing. “OpenAI has no need or desire for Apple’s trade secrets.”Bloomberg News has reported that OpenAI’s first consumer hardware product will be a doughnut-shaped smart speaker priced at more than $300. People within the company see it as a novel AI-centric device that’s different from anything Apple is set to release.
美国加利福尼亚州圣何塞地区的地方法官爱德华·达维拉（Edward Davila）将听取苹果公司提出的临时禁令申请。该禁令要求 OpenAI 停止使用从苹果公司获取的任何机密信息，并立即停止获取其他私人信息的企图。
US District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California, will hear arguments on Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction that would require OpenAI to cease using any confidential information that it has acquired from Apple and immediately halt efforts to acquire other private details.
在申请书中，苹果公司指出 OpenAI 正在利用对现任及前员工的面试来获取苹果公司的专有技术信息。苹果公司称，OpenAI 的管理层曾指示应聘者携带产品原型及其他“设计相关文件”参加面试。
As part of its request, Apple argued that OpenAI was using job interviews with its current and former employees as a means of eliciting proprietary information. The company claims that OpenAI leaders instructed candidates to bring prototypes and other “design artifacts” for “show and tell” sessions.
如果禁令获得批准，该禁令将在苹果公司对 OpenAI 的诉讼进行期间持续有效。
If granted, the order would stay in place while Apple’s lawsuit against the company proceeds.
周二，达维拉命令 OpenAI 加快提交有关其涉嫌窃取商业秘密的文件，以便进一步审查该公司即将推出的消费类硬件产品的相关情况。
On Tuesday, Davila ordered OpenAI to expedite turning over documents concerning its alleged theft of trade secrets to advance forthcoming consumer hardware products.
同时，达维拉还将审理 OpenAI 提出的驳回苹果公司诉讼的动议。
At the same time, Davila will also consider a motion filed by OpenAI to dismiss Apple’s lawsuit entirely.
OpenAI 则辩称，苹果公司未能明确指出具体被窃取的商业秘密是什么，其诉讼所涉及的只是关于硬件开发的通用信息。
OpenAI argues that Apple failed to identify any specific trade secrets that have been stolen and that its lawsuit points only to broad categories of information about hardware development.
在法庭文件中，OpenAI 表示，这起诉讼实际上暴露了苹果公司在安全措施和人力资源管理方面的漏洞，而非 OpenAI 有任何窃取商业秘密的行为。
In court filings, OpenAI argued that the lawsuit actually exposes weaknesses in Apple’s own security practices and human resources procedures, rather than any kind of effort to steal trade secrets by OpenAI.
OpenAI 还指出，苹果公司曾鼓励员工使用个人 iCloud 账户进行工作；此外，由于身份验证系统的错误，一名于 1 月份加入 OpenAI 的前 iPhone 工程师（刘昌，Chang Liu）在离职后仍能够访问相关文件。OpenAI 的律师表示，苹果公司的员工在刘昌离职后仍继续访问他个人 iCloud 账户中的文件，并要求他查找相关文件并回答技术问题。
The company said Apple encouraged its employees to use their personal iCloud accounts for work. OpenAI also said that an authentication error left Chang Liu, a former iPhone engineer who joined OpenAI in January and is named in the lawsuit, with access after he departed. OpenAI’s lawyers claim that Apple employees continued to access material in Liu’s personal iCloud account and asked him to locate files and answer technical questions after he left.
该初创公司于八月在其网站上公布了刘与其他员工的私人信息交流副本，显示在刘离职后，苹果员工仍就之前项目的技术问题与他联系。
The startup published copies of private messages between Liu and other employees on its website in August, showing how Apple employees continued to contact him after he left the company with technical questions about prior projects.
OpenAI 主张，这些交流加上宽松的离职交接流程，使刘仍能访问公司文件，能够驳斥苹果对其获取信息方式的说法。
OpenAI contends that those exchanges, coupled with loose offboarding processes that left Liu with access to company files, rebut Apple’s account of how he obtained the information.
苹果则辩称，刘个人 iCloud 账户中的信息“完全独立”，与其核心指控——刘后来利用身份验证漏洞访问苹果网络存储并下载机密文件——无关。
Apple has argued that the information in Liu’s personal iCloud account was “entirely separate” from its core allegation that he later exploited an authentication flaw to access Apple’s network storage and download confidential files.
此案为 Apple 诉 Liu，案号 5:26‑cv‑07078，加利福尼亚州北区联邦地区法院（圣何塞分部）。
The case is Apple v. Liu, 5:26-cv-07078, US District Court, Northern District of California (San Jose Division).