Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

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View this email online in your browser  July 10, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft: Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAi's senior leadership, including a long-time former employee. Read More Filing: College app Fizz accuses VC of sharing confidential startup information with rival Sidechat: Fizz has expanded its lawsuit against rival Sidechat, alleging that a Maveron VC shared its confidential information obtained during a fundraising meeting with the competing startup. Read More A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed: HyperTexting's new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website. Read More A message from Ai4 America’s Largest AI Conference Returns to Las Vegas Join 12000+ attendees at Ai4 2026, America’s largest AI conference. Discover the strategic insights and use cases driving real business impact. Hear from industry pioneers like Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng, explore 400+ exhibits, & network with peers in Las Vegas, Aug 4-6. Final call to register now and save $600+ before Aug 2. Register Now Afternoon Must-Reads Oratomic raises $300M to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits: The massive round was co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures. Read More Netflix could be planning ‘always-on’ live TV channels: Amid signs of slowing engagement, Netflix is reportedly considering launching "always-on" live channels, giving subscribers something to tune into 24/7. Read More After Apple, India's smartphone manufacturing boom enters new phase with Vivo JV: Vivo's joint venture could become a template for Chinese smartphone makers in India. Read More Disney+ is considering a free streaming tier, report says: The launch of free content would allow Disney+ to better compete with free services like YouTube and Tubi, which are capturing a growing share of consumers’ viewing time. Read More SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs: The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories. Read More A message from TechCrunch Events Your PC refresh strategy is already behind - free webinar, July 29 Thinking about stretching your PC fleet to wait out the price spike? The research says that's backward. Organizations that handle AI PC transitions best refresh consistently — not with a one-time buy. Join us for a free online webinar on July 29th at 10am PT/1pm ET to learn how to spec smarter for what's coming. Register Now Last but Not Least OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the 'preferred model' for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter: OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107

Netflix could be planning ‘always-on’ live TV channels

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View this email online in your browser  July 10, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Netflix could be planning ‘always-on’ live TV channels: Amid signs of slowing engagement, Netflix is reportedly considering launching "always-on" live channels, giving subscribers something to tune into 24/7. Read More Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to 'cut off' Anthropic: Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can. Read More Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1: Meta's pitch to users is Spark's ability to handle large agentic workloads, fix bugs, and help with large code migrations — the kind of automation that enterprises are increasingly turning to AI companies to provide. Read More A message from General Compute General Compute is making a $300m bet against GPUs General Compute raised $15m to build the worlds first ASIC cloud. By removing the GPU bottleneck, it runs frontier LLMs up to 16x faster than standard GPU clouds. ASIC silicon is also far more energy efficient, so it deploys in air-cooled data centers, making growth and expansion dramatically easier. Learn more here Morning Must-Reads Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?: The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences. Read More EU threatens Meta with fines over addictive features on Facebook and Instagram: The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the highly personalized recommendation algorithms, the European Commission said. Read More An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise: Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works. Read More After Apple, India's smartphone manufacturing boom enters new phase with Vivo JV: Vivo's joint venture could become a template for Chinese smartphone makers in India. Read More Florida ransomware negotiator convicted for helping ransomware gang extort US companies: A third ransomware negotiator has been jailed for helping a notorious ransomware group extort American victim companies into paying the hackers. Read More Last but Not Least Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI's No. 2 role: OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterprise market. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107