The “LOL” Breach: Inside Apple’s Trade-Secrets Lawsuit Against OpenAI
A zero-day bug, a company laptop, and a message that read ‘LOL’—how one ex-Apple engineer became the flashpoint in a widening war over AI talent and hardware secrets. In early July 2026, Apple filed a bombshell lawsuit in a California federal court alleging that OpenAI systematically stole Apple trade secrets to jump-start its nascent hardware…