SITUATION EXPLAINED: Apple is suing OpenAI over stolen files. • A hardware engineer left Apple to help build OpenAI's hardware division, allegedly walked off with confidential Apple files • The files were accessed on an Apple company laptop he never returned... investigators traced the transfers over multiple weeks • Comes amid OpenAI's aggressive recruiting of Apple hardware talent, including its acquisition of Jony Ive's design studio, LoveFrom... Ive was Apple's chief design officer for…