The weekend’s AI news cycle was dominated by a single rupture: Apple and OpenAI, partners as recently as last year, are now adversaries in court — while Meta quietly crossed a commercial threshold of its own.
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
Apple filed suit against OpenAI and two former employees in the Northern District of California, accusing the ChatGPT maker of misappropriating trade secrets to accelerate its push into consumer hardware following the $6.4 billion io acquisition. The filing alleges the scheme operated “at every level, from members of its Technical Staff to its Chief Hardware Officer.” Coverage from CNBC notes the case lands at a delicate moment, as OpenAI prepares for a public listing where active litigation from a $3 trillion company becomes a material disclosure risk.
OpenAI responds: “No interest in other companies’ trade secrets”
OpenAI issued its first response on Saturday, with spokesperson Drew Pusateri saying the company has “no interest in other companies’ trade secrets” and remains “focused on building innovative technology that empowers people everywhere,” per MacRumors. Meanwhile, Fortune reported new details of how talent poaching between the two hardware teams set the stage for the dispute. The split is already reshaping products: the redesigned Siri arriving this autumn will run on Google’s Gemini rather than ChatGPT, under the multi-year deal Apple and Google struck in January.
Meta starts charging for its models with Muse Spark 1.1
For the first time, Meta is charging developers to use one of its own models. Muse Spark 1.1, aimed at coding and agentic tasks, is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens — roughly a quarter of rival flagship rates — with API compatibility for both OpenAI and Anthropic SDK formats, according to The New Stack. Access is US-only at launch, and independent benchmark results are still pending.
What to watch: OpenAI’s formal legal reply, third-party benchmarks for Muse Spark 1.1, and Google’s still-unconfirmed Gemini 3.5 Pro general availability date.