Apple sues OpenAI, public betas, & super apps

The already tense relationship between Apple and OpenAI reaches a breaking point as trade secret accusations emerge, plus your hosts discuss EU regulations, the future of gaming, and public betas on the AppleInsider Podcast.

Apple restarted its AI efforts with new Apple Foundation Models built with Google’s Gemini Frontier models at the foundation. While Google’s involvement seemed obvious in the long run, the move away from OpenAI’s ChatGPT may have been a long time coming.

Not only is OpenAI building hardware products meant to directly compete with Apple’s, but the company has poached over 400 employees in recent years. Apple finally showed its hand with a trade secrets lawsuit that could upend OpenAI’s hardware ambitions and hopes for sustainable post-AI revenue.

While that’s the main topic of the show, William and Wesley also talk about how the EU battery regulations might affect Apple, if at all. There’s also a lot to contend with as memory and storage prices continue to climb.

One of the industries affected by these high prices is the video game industry. As gaming PCs and consoles become increasingly expensive, people will have to turn to the products they already have for entertainment.

It’s interesting that the first attempt at a full Madden football game on Apple products, coming to Apple Arcade, would arrive now. Apple already owns gaming in terms of the size of its user base and how much is spent on gaming apps.

There may be a future where Apple owns AAA gaming as well, if only because people might be priced out of owning both an iPhone and gaming console. If that’s the choice people have to make, it’ll be iPhone.

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