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How a bungled email from Apple’s lawyer soured talks with OpenAI months before Apple sued - NBC News
From NBC News via USVI News: A lawyer for Apple apologized for mixing up two OpenAI employees with the names Wang and Chang.
Apple alleged in a lawsuit last week that OpenAI “never responded” to its concerns this year about what Apple believed was trade secret theft. But emails reviewed by NBC News show that’s not the full story: OpenAI did respond in February to Apple’s initial outreach. The communications became bogged down and, according to OpenAI, abruptly stopped after an outside attorney representing Apple mixed up the names and email addresses of two OpenAI employees who had the last names Wang and Chang.
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