{"id":252439,"date":"2026-07-17T17:45:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/how-apples-big-lawsuit-could-disrupt-openais-ipo-plans-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:45:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:45:46","slug":"how-apples-big-lawsuit-could-disrupt-openais-ipo-plans-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/how-apples-big-lawsuit-could-disrupt-openais-ipo-plans-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"How Apple&#8217;s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI&#8217;s IPO plans | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/07\/13\/the-wildest-allegations-in-apples-trade-secrets-lawsuit-against-openai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">filed a trade secrets\u00a0lawsuit against OpenAI<\/a>\u00a0last Friday, and\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI\u2019s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/07\/14\/openai-pushes-back-on-apple-trade-secret-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OpenAI\u2019s response so far<\/a>\u00a0has been carefully hedged, and the timing\u00a0couldn\u2019t\u00a0be worse with the company\u00a0reportedly eyeing\u00a0an IPO as early as\u00a0later this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this episode of TechCrunch\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Equity<\/a>\u00a0podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O\u2019Kane dig into what the lawsuit could mean for OpenAI\u2019s own hardware ambitions and IPO timeline, plus a bigger theme running through the week\u2019s news: how much should anyone trust AI companies with their data?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TechCrunch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Overcast<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and all the casts. You\u00a0also can\u00a0follow Equity on<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EquityPod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@equitypod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Threads<\/a>, at @EquityPod.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/video\/how-apples-big-lawsuit-could-disrupt-openais-ipo-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u00a0filed a trade secrets\u00a0lawsuit against OpenAI\u00a0last Friday, and\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI\u2019s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company.\u00a0OpenAI\u2019s response so far\u00a0has been carefully hedged, and the timing\u00a0couldn\u2019t\u00a0be worse with the company\u00a0reportedly eyeing\u00a0an IPO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-252439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}