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How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans | Equity Podcast

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has been carefully hedged, and the…

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On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into what the lawsuit could mean for OpenAI’s own hardware ambitions and IPO timeline, plus a bigger theme running through the week’s news: how much should anyone trust AI companies with their data?
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Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:40 Would you want Sam Altman listening to you?

01:53 Apple sues OpenAI over trade secrets

13:24 Satya Nadella’s warning: “you’re paying twice” with your data

19:03 Open source vs. going deeper with AI labs

24:52 General Catalyst gives David Beckham’s health drink startup $1B

30:05 Ex-OpenAI researcher raises $200M for drug discovery startup

32:58 Outro

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@cfshifflett2

July 17, 2026 at 2:37 pm

24/7 audio surveillance by a DOD contractor? Who wouldn’t want that?

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@lilhaxxor

July 18, 2026 at 3:31 am

This is too slow. I can’t spend 30 minutes listening to this, when the story has been covered elsewhere.

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Anthropic’s IPO filing puts the AI business model to the test | Equity Podcast

After weeks of speculation and leaks, Anthropic finally released the S-1 filing for its IPO, showing revenue of $16.3 billion for the first half of 2026, with a net loss of $80.7 billion. At around the same time, former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer sparked a backlash after boasting about using her AI app Dazzle to…

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After weeks of speculation and leaks, Anthropic finally released the S-1 filing for its IPO, showing revenue of $16.3 billion for the first half of 2026, with a net loss of $80.7 billion.

At around the same time, former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer sparked a backlash after boasting about using her AI app Dazzle to answer questions about her daughter for a school presentation.

On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and Anthony Ha dig into the long-awaited financial details behind one of the industry’s biggest companies, looking at both the enormous opportunities and the many, many risks. They’re also joined by Amanda Silberling to discuss a more basic question facing the industry: Are AI execs too out-of-touch to build products for normal people?

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
2:47 Marissa Mayer’s Dazzle backlash
8:47 Product problem or messaging problem?
12:46 Anthropic’s S-1
15:09 Revenue growth, losses, and the acquisition spree
20:02 The S-1’s most notable risk factors
23:57 Apollo economist: where’s the AI payoff?
25:36 Bedrock Robotics raises $600M for self-driving excavators
30:12 Rebuild raises $2.1B for domestic manufacturing
34:11 Outro