6 March 2020Sarah Morgan

AI startup accuses Facebook of misappropriating trade secrets

An artificial intelligence (AI) startup has accused Facebook of hiring an employee, having him share the startup’s “secret sauce” trade secrets and then offering this technology as open-source code.

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