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• July 19, 2026

Apple recently filed a trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the artificial intelligence company of a pattern of misconduct aimed at getting current and former Apple employees to share confidential information. (In response, OpenAI said it is “not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit.”) On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast,