What smart people are saying about OpenAI’s ‘Apple is getting this wrong’ rebuttal

Apple is seeking expedited discovery and a preliminary injunction, per Monday court filings. That suggests that the company believes other former employees may have retained or accessed confidential information after joining OpenAI.

Elon Musk, the outspoken Tesla and SpaceX CEO who lost a lawsuit against OpenAI and its leaders earlier this year, reposted screenshots of Apple’s latest court filings on Tuesday.

“Can’t trust OpenAI,” he wrote.

Neil Cybart, the founder of the independent Apple analysis firm Above Avalon, dismissed OpenAI’s response in a post on X.

He described the post as “nonsensical” and accused OpenAI of using the classic “hey, look over there” strategy to draw attention away from Apple’s central allegations.

“OpenAI must be really nervous about Apple’s trade secret theft lawsuit because this silly attempt at PR spin is nonsensical,” Cybart wrote.

Jim Cramer, CNBC’s host of “Mad Money,” also commented on Apple’s preliminary injunction in a post on X.

“Gloves off,” he wrote.

Todd Dailey, a former Apple enterprise marketing manager who spent 22 years at the company according to his LinkedIn, said his own departure made OpenAI’s statements about Apple’s offboarding problems seem plausible.

On X, he wrote that he still had two unreleased Apple prototypes.

“Old Apple wouldn’t have let an ex-employee hold a prototype for more than 24 hours and would have sent someone to my door to get it,” Dailey wrote.

He said the experience reflected how stretched Apple’s employees had become and made it easier to understand how the company’s lawyers could have made mistakes in their correspondence with OpenAI.

“I’m not surprised at all that busy, harried lawyers could make this mistake,” he wrote.

Harpal Singh, the founder of the generative-engine-optimization platform Blimpp, told Business Insider that OpenAI’s post was written to directly contradict Apple’s account.

That tactic, he said, could affect how journalists, search engines, and AI tools describe the lawsuit.

“OpenAI is not just defending itself in court,” Singh said. “It wants to present the narrative that journalists, search engines, and other AI Response Systems will mirror.”