OpenAI’s fight with Apple is really about Silicon Valley’s war for talent

The dispute draws on the tech industry’s long and legally fraught history of discouraging workers from jumping to rivals. OpenAI, for the second time in the past few months, is facing a legal battle that could alter the company’s trajectory. This time, it is squaring off against Apple in a fight whose origins can, in some ways, be traced to a time long before the AI giant existed.