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5 min readOpenAI Has Receipts
OpenAI published a blistering blog post overnight titled "Apple is getting this wrong," pushing back against Apple's trade secrets lawsuit with what the company calls "receipts"—actual iMessages and emails shared publicly. The post doesn't constitute a formal legal response, but it's a clear attempt to sway public opinion by poking holes in Apple's case using cherry-picked communications. Meanwhile, Bending Spoons acquired Airtable for $1.28 billion in its first post-IPO deal, Anthropic quietly signed a $10 billion computing deal with a Norwegian AI cloud startup, the US is preparing tariffs on polysilicon to counter China, and Microsoft finally told its engineers to stop token-maxing on AI tools.
OpenAI's Public Defense Against Apple's Lawsuit
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What you'll learn
- 1 OpenAI Has Receipts
- 2 (00:04) **Episode Intro** - Host Brian McKellar sets up the day's stories: OpenAI's public rebuttal to Apple's lawsuit, Bending Spoons' acquisition of Airtable, and a $10 billion computing deal involving Anthropic.
- 3 (00:37) **OpenAI Fires Back at Apple's Lawsuit** - OpenAI goes to the court of public opinion, disputing claims that former Apple employees used confidential information and sharing actual communications as evidence.
- 4 (01:45) **The Preliminary Injunction Request** - Apple asks a judge to prevent Liu, Tan, and OpenAI from using alleged trade secrets while the lawsuit proceeds.
- 5 (02:53) **OpenAI's Receipts Detail** - The ChatGPT maker publishes specific emails and iMessages to undermine Apple's central allegations.
- 6 (04:28) **Bending Spoons Acquires Airtable** - The Italian digital turnaround company buys US automation software firm Airtable in its first post-IPO deal, valued at $1.28 billion enterprise value.
- 7 (05:44) **Airtable's AI Challenge** - CEO Howie Liu had planned to take the company public, but the rise of generative AI tools eroded Airtable's competitive position.
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Show Notes
OpenAI took Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit to the court of public opinion, receipts and all. Bending Spoons bought Airtable, Anthropic inked a $10B Norway compute deal, the US eyed polysilicon tariffs, and Microsoft told engineers tokenmaxxing was over.
Links
- OpenAI drags Apple's lawsuit into the court of public opinion (The Verge)
- Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the US software company at $1.285B, set to close by 2026's end, its first post-IPO deal (Reuters)
- Bending Spoons buys Airtable at an implied equity value of ~$2.25B, five years after a $735M round valued the no-code company at $11.7B; Airtable's ARR is now ~$480M (Silicon Republic)
- Sources: Anthropic agreed to a $10B deal for computing capacity in Norway from Nvidia-backed AI cloud startup Volta Infra, which says the deal is for six years (Bloomberg)
- Sources: the US is preparing to set a price floor and impose tariffs on polysilicon, a material critical to chips, later this month, in a bid to counter China (Reuters)
- Sources: Beijing is growing concerned about the cyber capabilities of Mythos and other US-developed frontier AI models and their potential as offensive weapons (Bloomberg)
- White House to host AI companies Tuesday to review new model-testing framework (CNBC)
- Internal email: Microsoft introduces token budget limits for employees' AI use, saying "tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for" (404 Media)
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