Who are Chang Liu and Tang Tan?
Both are former Apple employees now named as individual defendants. Chang Liu, an ex-senior systems electrical engineer who spent eight years at Apple, allegedly exploited an authentication bug to download confidential files after leaving. Tang Tan, OpenAI's Chief Hardware Officer and a 24-year Apple veteran, allegedly used Apple's internal codenames while recruiting Apple staff for OpenAI.
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