Apple 指控 OpenAI 销毁证据，申请加快证据开示

苹果正推动其对 OpenAI 的法律战中进行“加快取证”，原因是担心该公司正在主动销毁证据，据彭博社此前报道：https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-31/apple-says-openai-is-destroying-evidence-in-trade-secrets-case。在周一的一份文件中：https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28592913-apple-response-to-openai/，苹果声称 OpenAI 直到最近才交出一台前员工使用过的 MacBook，该员工是诉讼的核心人物，该电脑中包含关于“销毁苹果所需的取证数据类型”的讨论。

这是苹果对 OpenAI 提起诉讼的最新进展：/tech/964350/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets，该诉讼指控 ChatGPT 生产商：/tech/964843/apple-openai-lawsuit-wildest-claims 窃取商业机密以构建 AI 设备。诉讼涉及三名前苹果员工，他们最近加入了 OpenAI，其中包括 Chang Liu，据称他在离开苹果后保留了一台公司所属的 MacBook。

苹果指控 OpenAI 未能检查这台笔记本电脑，“尽管从7月诉讼开始就已掌握在其手中”。一旦 OpenAI 在 8 月 21 日最终向苹果提供电脑，检查时据称发现刘“不仅下载了苹果的机密电路原理图，而且还在 OpenAI 的工作中使用了这些资料。”苹果还称，刘和 OpenAI 的其他人“非常清楚”刘持续访问苹果第三方云存储系统的情况。

除了这些发现外，苹果的检查还发现信息显示，据称刘在得知公司6月进行内部调查后讨论了“需要‘恢复’然后‘开始使用’苹果拥有的设备”。苹果声称，“新发现的证据显示了证据销毁的真实风险。”“取证检查所依赖的重要取证证据——如日志、元数据和使用记录——是短暂的，有丢失、覆盖或销毁的风险。”

同时，OpenAI 在一份文件中辩称：https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28592922-openai-opposition-to-apple-injunction/ “这场争议完全是苹果自己造成的混乱，”并表示该公司在指责他人，尽管其员工离职流程“本身就很混乱。”OpenAI 坚称，“没有证据表明刘通过不正当手段或出于不正当目的获取任何苹果信息，”并补充道，“刘对苹果的机密信息没有任何用途。”

Apple is pushing for “expedited discovery” in its legal battle against OpenAI over concerns the company is actively destroying evidence, as reported earlier by Bloomberg ：https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-31/apple-says-openai-is-destroying-evidence-in-trade-secrets-case. In a filing on Monday：https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28592913-apple-response-to-openai/, Apple alleges OpenAI only just handed over a MacBook used by a former employee at the center of the lawsuit, which contained discussions about “destroying the types of forensic data Apple needs.”

This is the latest development in Apple’s lawsuit against：/tech/964350/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets OpenAI, which accuses the ChatGPT-maker：/tech/964843/apple-openai-lawsuit-wildest-claims of stealing trade secrets to build an AI device. The lawsuit revolves around three former Apple employees who recently joined OpenAI, including Chang Liu, who allegedly kept a company-owned MacBook after leaving Apple.

Apple accuses OpenAI of failing to inspect the laptop “despite having the MacBook in their possession since the start of the lawsuit” in July. Once OpenAI finally provided the laptop to Apple on August 21st, an inspection allegedly found that Liu “not only downloaded a confidential Apple circuit schematic but also used it in his work at OpenAI.” Apple also claims Liu and others at OpenAI were “well-aware” of Liu’s continued access to Apple’s third-party cloud storage system.

Along with these findings, Apple’s inspection uncovered messages in which Liu allegedly discussed “the need to ‘restore’ and then ‘start using’ Apple-owned devices” after finding out about the company’s internal investigation in June. “The newly discovered evidence demonstrates the very real risk of evidence destruction,” Apple claims. “Important forensic artifacts on which forensic inspections rely — such as logs, metadata, and usage records—are transient and at risk of being lost, overwritten, or destroyed.”

At the same time, OpenAI argues in a filing that：https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28592922-openai-opposition-to-apple-injunction/ “this dispute is a mess of Apple’s own making,” and that the company is blaming others even though its employee exit process “is a mess.” OpenAI maintains that “there is no evidence that Liu accessed any Apple information through improper means or for any improper purpose,” adding that “Liu has no use for Apple confidential information.”