Apple Sues OpenAI

Apple sued OpenAI, alleging ex-employees stole trade secrets for its hardware push. Twelve states sued to block the Paramount-WBD merger, Anthropic extended free Fable 5 access as rivals raced on price, and Meta killed its Instagram AI opt-out feature.

• Apple sues OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees stole "Apple's trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI", and says OpenAI never responded to its concerns (9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade…) (9to5Mac)

• A coalition of 12 states led by California files an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger, alleging it lessens competition in three markets (variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-warner-br…) (Variety)

• Anthropic says it is extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19 (economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-i…) (Economic Times)

• OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI are racing to offer more cost-efficient AI models as enterprise customers, stung by "tokenmaxxing" bills, scrutinize their AI spending (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-12/openai-…) (Bloomberg)

• Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (variety.com/2026/biz/news/meta-suspends-ai-ima…) (Variety)

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