Apple is suing OpenAI：/tech/964350/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done：https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-lawsuit-openai-trade-secrets-what-smart-people-are-saying-2026-7. So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI?

On this episode of The Vergecast ：https://pod.link/vergecast, Nilay and David go through the lawsuit, and look at Apple’s history of splashy litigation to determine whether Apple is worried about a possible competitor or simply looking to capitalize on a weak moment for OpenAI：/ai-artificial-intelligence/965294/openai-apple-trade-secrets-lawsuit-sam-altman-ipo. All this is happening as Apple ships the public betas：/tech/964307/apple-public-betas-ios-27-siri-ai of its new software, headlined by the new Siri AI：/tech/964714/siri-ai-public-beta-preview-ios-27-hands-on, and we have thoughts about what it all means — and whether the new Siri is actually any good.

After all that, the hosts turn to the week’s gadget news, which includes leaks about OpenAI gadgets：/ai-artificial-intelligence/965670/openai-chatgpt-ai-smart-speaker-hardware-device and Pixel phones：/tech/964972/google-pixel-11-colors-rumor, and OnePlus bailing on the US and Europe：/tech/966404/oneplus-oppo-us-europe-withdrawal-realme. The Samsung-Apple duopoly continues to rule in the US, and it looks increasingly hard for anyone to challenge：/tech/966274/oneplus-never-had-a-chance-in-the-us. Unless you just go and buy T-Mobile.

Finally, in the lightning round, we catch up on Brendan Carr：/policy/966283/fcc-broadcast-ownership-cap-brendan-carr, the latest chaos in your X feed：/tech/965360/x-algorithm-tweak-mutuals-strangers-community, the cracking face emoji：/news/965537/the-new-cracking-face-emoji-might-be-an-all-timer, the foothills of the singularity：/tech/965270/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-global-ai-watchdog, and more.

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