Apple Lawsuit Threatens OpenAI's ChatGPT Device
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- Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI could sidetrack the startup's hardware aspirations for years — or possibly forever — and if successful would scrap a planned ChatGPT-branded device, according to the source.
- OpenAI is already mired in what the source characterizes as 'yet another controversy and messy divorce,' with cross-coverage (Bloomberg via TechMeme) pointing to hardware chief Tang Tan's strained relationship with former boss John Ternus and months of simmering tensions preceding the suit.
Why it matters: OpenAI's first consumer hardware product is now legally exposed, and the personnel fracture at its hardware division — Tan's break with Ternus — suggests the lawsuit landed on an org already cracking from within, compounding the 'messy divorce' the source describes.
