**Apple** filed a high-impact lawsuit on Friday accusing **OpenAI** of stealing trade secrets to develop its upcoming AI hardware gadgets, marking a major legal escalation in the AI race [6][8][9]. This legal action directly targets the core intellectual property behind OpenAI’s new consumer AI devices, intensifying competition between the two tech giants [6].

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