Apple Sues OpenAI, Experts Sign Another AI Warning Letter, Paramount Threatens CA Exit | Diet TBPN
July 13, 2026
AI Summary
5 min readApple Sues OpenAI, Experts Sign Another AI Warning Letter, Paramount Threatens CA Exit
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday, accusing the AI company of orchestrating a coordinated campaign to steal trade secrets about upcoming products. The suit, broken by Mark Gurman, centers on a former Apple employee named Chang Liu, who allegedly kept his Apple laptop for weeks after leaving for OpenAI, downloaded dozens of proprietary hardware-related files, and encouraged other Apple employees to do the same. The Wall Street Journal called the move a "thermonuclear" escalation, invoking Steve Jobs' 2010 declaration of war against Google's Android.
The Apple-OpenAI Lawsuit
The lawsuit's core allegation is that OpenAI engaged in systematic trade secret theft. Apple claims that OpenAI has poached more than 400 employees from the company in recent years, and that its hardware chief Tang Tan — who worked at Apple for 24 years and co-founded the AI hardware startup I.O. with Jony Ive before OpenAI acquired it in 2025 — solicited sensitive information from Apple employees during job interviews. Apple alleges Tan encouraged candidates to bring "actual parts from Apple for show and tell sessions at OpenAI."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:02) **Apple Sues OpenAI for Trade Secret Theft** - Apple files a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets, centered on a former Apple employee who allegedly kept proprietary files and encouraged others to do the same.
- 2 (15:48) **Paramount Threatens to Leave California Over Warner Bros. Merger Block** - Paramount is considering moving major operations out of California after the state AG and 11 other states sue to block its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
- 3 (20:30) **Over 200 Experts Sign New AI Warning Letter** - A new letter signed by over 200 researchers and economists (including Jack Clark, Jeff Dean, Tyler Cowen, Eric Schmidt) makes three simple statements about AI's potential impact.
- 4 (28:20) **Closing Segment: Viral Video and SpaceX Launch Site** - The show closes with a viral video mocking AI business jargon and a clip of SpaceX's new launch site.
- 5 Standout Quotes
- 6 "The AI era has sucked for Apple, even if they aren't necessarily doomed, and even if relaunch new Siri ends up working out, their position is still more fragile than it was." - Ben Thompson, as cited in the episode
- 7 "A nine to five isn't a career. It's a supply chain for casino ammo." - Riskmaxing, as cited in the episode
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