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An ex-Apple employee who joined OpenAI allegedly stole confidential Apple hardware files using an unreturned laptop, leading to a major lawsuit.

I am sometimes really surprised by how dumb very highly paid people in tech can be. 1. Leave Apple 2. Start building hardware at OpenAI 3. Access confidential Apple files on hardware, from an unreturned Apple laptop 4. Expect... what? To get away with it? A damning lawsuit
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I am sometimes really surprised by how dumb very highly paid people in tech can be.

  1. Leave Apple

  2. Start building hardware at OpenAI

  3. Access confidential Apple files on hardware, from an unreturned Apple laptop

  4. Expect… what? To get away with it?

A damning lawsuit

Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 (@GerritD): Major allegations about an Apple employee who joined OpenAI in Jan 2026, kept a laptop, found an exploit in Apple’s systems and stole files over a multi-week time. This is similar to what Anthony Levandowski was accused of doing by Google back in 2018

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