Apple has told a California federal judge that a former engineer now at OpenAI downloaded at least 33 confidential files from Apple's Box repository after his departure, wiped an Apple-owned computer before returning it, and later told another former Apple employee who had joined OpenAI to erase her device, according to Law360. The report, by Ivan Moreno on September 18, 2026, states that Apple made the allegations in a filing before a California federal judge.