Apple Sues OpenAI: What It Means for Siri and Your iPhone
On Friday, 10 July 2026, Apple sued OpenAI in federal court in the Northern District of California, accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing its trade secrets to build a rival AI device. Apple alleges the theft ran, in its words, “at every level, from members of its Technical Staff to its Chief Hardware Officer”. The complaint names OpenAI, its hardware unit io Products, OpenAI Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan and former Apple engineer Chang Liu, and it claims that more than 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI. OpenAI denies everything. The filing itself has been covered everywhere. The question almost nobody is answering is the one you probably […]
