Apple's trade-secret case may take years, but Bloomberg says it's already chilling OpenAI's hiring and clouding its device launch before any verdict.

Apple has lost significant talent to OpenAI as the frontier lab prepares to unveil its first hardware device.

Apple sued OpenAI on Friday, alleging the AI company has stolen the iPhone maker’s trade secrets to develop its own yet-to-be-unveiled AI gadgets.

Apple is concerned that OpenAI used the stolen confidential information to "jumpstart its hardware efforts," per the 41-page lawsuit.