OpenAI itself has argued, to the degree that your analogy applies, that if the goal of stealing the laptop is to train AI then the answer is Yes.

Wouldn't this analogy be more like, "can you read my laptop screen if I stood up to get a drink?"

And steal the ip from your startup and then go public.

If their OS is open to the internet and you can scrape it and copy it off while they’re gone, then that would be about the right analogy. And OpenAi and DeepSeek have done the same thing in that case.

Yes, if you can pay off any witnesses.

What?