“This is the tip of the iceberg. Apple lacks visibility into what’s happening behind closed doors at OpenAI, where such misconduct is normalized.”
Two years ago these companies were partners on a keynote stage. Then OpenAI bought Jony Ive’s startup for $6.4 billion and started strip-mining Apple’s hardware team. Apple says job interviews doubled as intelligence collection, run by a hardware chief who spent 24 years in Cupertino. One engineer allegedly kept his Apple laptop after quitting and used it to download confidential documents.