OpenAI Says Ex-Employee Took 100+ Unreleased Product Files Before Joining Apple

The detail that matters is not the file count but the alleged presentation to Apple leadership, which shifts the dispute from a routine departure to a claim about competitive knowledge transfer. Because it surfaces inside Apple v. OpenAI rather than a standalone suit, the two companies' broader litigation becomes the venue where talent-mobility norms between AI and platform giants get tested. Whether the court treats the brief as evidence or as positioning, and whether Apple responds substantively, is the open question.