Apple sued OpenAI, alleging ex-employees stole trade secrets for its hardware push. Twelve states sued to block the Paramount-WBD merger, Anthropic extended free Fable 5 access as rivals raced on price, and Meta killed its Instagram AI opt-out feature. Apple sues OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees stole &quot;Apple&#x27;s trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI&quot;, and says OpenAI never responded to its concerns (9to5Mac) A coalition of 12 states led by California files an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount&#x27;s WBD merger, alleging it lessens competition in three markets (Variety) Anthropic says it is extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code&#x27;s weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19 (Economic Times) OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI are racing to offer more cost-efficient AI models as enterprise customers, stung by &quot;tokenmaxxing&quot; bills, scrutinize their AI spending (Bloomberg) Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Variety) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.

Apple Sues OpenAI

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Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home from Monday, July 13th, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, Apple sued OpenAI, alleging ex-employees stole trade secrets for its hardware push. Twelve states sued to block the Paramount WBD merger, Anthropic extended free Fable 5 access as rivals raced on price. And Meta killed its Instagram AI opt-out feature. Here's what you

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Late Friday, word leaked out that Apple is suing OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees stole, quote, Apple's trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI, end quote, and says OpenAI never responded to its concerns. Quoting 9to5Mac, the lawsuit names Chang Liu and Tang Tan as two of the defendants. Tang Tan served as VP of product design at Apple, leading iPhone and Apple Watch product design.

Apple Sues OpenAI

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The candid version is on a podcast,
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Apple Sues OpenAI

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The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.