Apple Inc. told a federal court on August 31, 2026 that a former senior electrical engineer now working at OpenAI downloaded a confidential circuit schematic and used it in his OpenAI work, citing a forensic inspection of a MacBook his attorneys handed over on August 21, 2026. The allegations appear in a supplemental brief filed in the Northern District of California as part of Apple’s push for expedited discovery in its trade secret lawsuit. The New Forensic Allegations According to Apple’s…