How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans

Apple filed a commercialized secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The ailment alleges a signifier of misconduct reaching each the mode up to OpenAI’s main hardware serviceman and claims much than 400 erstwhile Apple employees present enactment astatine the company. OpenAI’s effect truthful far has been cautiously hedged, and the timing couldn’t be worse with the company reportedly eyeing an IPO arsenic aboriginal as later this year. 

On this occurrence of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane excavation into what the suit could mean for OpenAI’s ain hardware ambitions and IPO timeline, positive a bigger taxable moving done the week’s news: however overmuch should anyone spot AI companies with their data? 

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