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Federal district judge in San Jose who denied the preliminary injunction against SB 976 and found plaintiffs had not shown their personalized feeds to be expressive.
Judge Edward Davila said at a Wednesday hearing that he is "highly likely" to grant Apple an injunction against OpenAI, Bloomberg reported. The order Apple wants covers use of confidential information. For teams that hire from rivals, the exposure is the paper trail behind each hire.
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OpenAI alleges an ex-employee now at Apple sent more than 100 files on an unreleased device to a personal account. Apple, which sued OpenAI in July, says it found no evidence, so each company now faces untested allegations from the other.
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Judge Edward Davila ordered OpenAI to produce interview records for Apple candidates and approved three depositions in Apple's trade secrets suit. OpenAI has five days for material already collected and 14 for the rest, TechCrunch reported.
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Forensics on an Apple-issued MacBook that Chang Liu kept using after January let Apple argue destruction of evidence rather than definition of secrets, days before a judge weighs blocking OpenAI's hardware work.
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Apple wants OpenAI's internal communications, the accounts that held allegedly confidential material and the employees who touched it, all before a hearing on an injunction against a device OpenAI has yet to release.
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A San Jose judge refused to enjoin California's feed law after finding personalized recommendations may not be expressive. Blocking is protected; recommending is now a separate build.
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