AI Industry Competition and Litigation

Apple sues OpenAI for trade secret theft. NYT demands sanctions against OpenAI. Amazon drops Guadagnino's OpenAI film. OpenAI files S-1 with $38.5B loss. Altman calls for AI slowdown. Chilling effect on AI-themed content. New: OpenAI's ethics chief Chloé Bakalar exits after less than a year, adding to safety leadership churn and raising questions about vendor stability for Hollywood partnerships. New: Anthropic and OpenAI hold 89% of AI startup revenue, with Anthropic now surpassing OpenAI; Sequoia notes value lies in applications, not models, key for studios building AI tools.