(FILES) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks at a panel discussion on potentials, perspectives and challenges in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Technical University (TU) in Berlin on February 7, 2025. Apple on July 10 sued OpenAI, accusing the artificial intelligence company of orchestrating a campaign to steal the iPhone maker's trade secrets as it tries to develop its own consumer hardware device. The lawsuit -- filed in a federal court in San Jose, California -- paints a picture of an aggressive effort by OpenAI to poach Apple employees and extract confidential information to build its own device (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP via Getty Images)