Map card — living entry on Who’s Suing Whom
- Parties: Platform vs. lab, framed in coverage as an employment and alleged poaching dispute.
- Forum: Follow the public docket; unfiled rumors stay off the map.
- Core claim (as alleged): Talent and document disputes that expose how frontier hiring actually operates.
- Stage: Updates added when motions appear; no tidy weekly narrative imposed.
- Why it matters: Shifts in compensation baselines, non-solicit norms, and risk for researchers changing employers.
How to read this card
Talent fights are now litigated fights. When a platform and a lab clash over employees and documents, the case maps industry power rather than gossip. Filings are separated from commentary; alleged facts remain labeled as such.
Adjacent fronts
The same period includes cross-border IP cases and regulatory scrutiny of distribution deals. The map is recursive: each new complaint can reopen prior nodes.