{
  "id": 16255,
  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/apple-says-more-ex-employees-may-have-taken-confidential-data-to-openai",
  "title": "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI",
  "summary": "Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.",
  "authors": "Sarah Perez",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "finance-investment",
  "orgs": "openai,apple",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-04T14:03:01.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-05T05:10:44.550Z",
  "source_slug": "techcrunch-ai",
  "source_name": "TechCrunch",
  "source_homepage": "https://techcrunch.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16255",
  "original_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/apple-says-more-ex-employees-may-have-taken-confidential-data-to-openai",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}