Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft this week. A six-year Apple employee allegedly walked physical prototypes out the door for show-and-tell, encouraged by a 24-year Apple veteran now running OpenAI’s hardware group, according to [SaaStr](https://www.saastr.com/20vc-x-saastr-this-week-apple-sues-openai-the-token-maxing-era-begins-and-the-tam-question-hanging-over-ai-coding/).
The lawsuit signals OpenAI’s hardware ambitions.