Open AI CEO Sam Altman prepares for a US Senate Commerce Committee hearing on artificial intelligence (AI) on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 8, 2025. Apple on July 10 sued OpenAI, accusing the artificial intelligence company of orchestrating a campaign to steal the iPhone maker's trade secrets as it tries to develop its own consumer hardware device. The lawsuit -- filed in a federal court in San Jose, California -- paints a picture of an aggressive effort by OpenAI to poach Apple employees and extract confidential information to build its own device (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)