{"slug": "apples-plot-to-crush-openai", "title": "Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI", "summary": "Apple has filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the AI company misappropriated confidential information. The lawsuit comes as Apple releases public betas of its new Siri AI, and experts debate whether Apple is targeting a competitor or exploiting OpenAI's vulnerabilities. The case highlights escalating tensions between the two tech giants as they compete in the AI space.", "body_md": "[Apple is suing OpenAI](/tech/964350/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets). The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just [the ways things are done](https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-lawsuit-openai-trade-secrets-what-smart-people-are-saying-2026-7). So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI?\n\n# Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI\n\nAlso on The Vergecast: Siri AI is here, OnePlus is leaving, and the cracking face emoji is coming.\n\nAlso on The Vergecast: Siri AI is here, OnePlus is leaving, and the cracking face emoji is coming.\n\nOn [this episode of The Vergecast](https://pod.link/vergecast), Nilay and David go through the lawsuit, and look at Apple’s history of splashy litigation to determine whether Apple is worried about a possible competitor or simply looking to capitalize on\n\n[a weak moment for OpenAI](/ai-artificial-intelligence/965294/openai-apple-trade-secrets-lawsuit-sam-altman-ipo). All this is happening as Apple\n\n[ships the public betas](/tech/964307/apple-public-betas-ios-27-siri-ai)of its new software, headlined by\n\n[the new Siri AI](/tech/964714/siri-ai-public-beta-preview-ios-27-hands-on), and we have thoughts about what it all means — and whether the new Siri is actually any good.\n\nAfter all that, the hosts turn to the week’s gadget news, which includes leaks about [OpenAI gadgets](/ai-artificial-intelligence/965670/openai-chatgpt-ai-smart-speaker-hardware-device) and [Pixel phones](/tech/964972/google-pixel-11-colors-rumor), and [OnePlus bailing on the US and Europe](/tech/966404/oneplus-oppo-us-europe-withdrawal-realme). The Samsung-Apple duopoly continues to rule in the US, and it looks [increasingly hard for anyone to challenge](/tech/966274/oneplus-never-had-a-chance-in-the-us). Unless you just go and buy T-Mobile.\n\nFinally, in the lightning round, we catch up on [Brendan Carr](/policy/966283/fcc-broadcast-ownership-cap-brendan-carr), the latest [chaos in your X feed](/tech/965360/x-algorithm-tweak-mutuals-strangers-community), the [cracking face emoji](/news/965537/the-new-cracking-face-emoji-might-be-an-all-timer), the [foothills of the singularity](/tech/965270/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-global-ai-watchdog), and more.\n\n[Watch](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL39u5ZEfYDEO5PaNRWyqloGY6zzJ1fjBa) | [Listen](https://bit.ly/3hkwRl2) | [Get ad-free](/bulletin/795051/verge-podcast-ad-free-set-up-how-to)\n\nIn case you missed it this week: We also [ranked AI gadgets](/podcast/965027/ai-gadgets-ranked-vergecast), [listened to AI music](/podcast/965581/suno-ai-music-vergecast), [debated our review of the Steam Machine](/podcast/966185/steam-machine-review-feedback-vergecast), and [learned about AI detectors](/ai-artificial-intelligence/966719/the-one-ai-detector-people-actually-trust). And we want to hear all your thoughts about all of it! Call the Vergecast Hotline at 866-VERGE11, send us an email at vergecast@theverge.com, and tell us everything that’s on your mind. And make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss an episode!\n\n**Follow topics and authors** from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apples-plot-to-crush-openai", "canonical_source": "https://www.theverge.com/podcast/967244/apple-openai-lawsuit-vergecast", "published_at": "2026-07-17 17:41:32+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-17 18:03:18.323870+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-products", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Apple", "OpenAI", "Siri", "Sam Altman", "OnePlus", "Google", "T-Mobile", "Brendan Carr"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apples-plot-to-crush-openai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apples-plot-to-crush-openai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apples-plot-to-crush-openai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apples-plot-to-crush-openai.jsonld"}}