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

• Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in July, accusing the AI lab of stealing trade secrets.
• OpenAI has denied wrongdoing. On Monday, the AI firm published a blog post saying the suit was “careless.”
• Several voices across tech weighed in on the heavyweight back-and-forth.

“Can’t trust OpenAI,” he wrote.

Neil Cybart, Founder of Above Avalon

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, host of CNBC’s “Mad Money”

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, former Apple enterprise marketing manager

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, founder of Blimpp

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.”