OpenAI is facing a legal battle against Apple, which accuses OpenAI of stealing its intellectual property by asking former Apple employees and prospective recruits to bring information about unreleased products. OpenAI denies the claim, stating it has “no interest in other companies’ trade secrets.” The feud also involves OpenAI’s recruitment of Apple’s workforce; to date, more than 400 former Apple employees have left, lured by steep compensation packages, prompting Apple to offer larger-than-normal retention bonuses. This poaching contrasts with Silicon Valley’s history, including a 2010 antitrust action by the Department of Justice against Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm, and eBay for colluding not to recruit one another’s employees, which reduced workers’ wages and stock bonuses. The companies settled, and a subsequent class-action lawsuit resulted in more than 64,000 workers receiving an average payment of $5,770 each. Today, no formal anti-poaching agreement exists among tech firms, and the practice remains relatively rare, though up-and-coming firms like Meta have historically lured employees from rivals.