Overview
- OpenAI, which engaged an outside law firm Thursday, is evaluating steps that could start with a breach‑of‑contract notice without an immediate lawsuit and still says it prefers a private resolution.
- Executives say Apple failed to deliver the deep Siri placement and promotion OpenAI expected, leaving subscription growth far below projections that insiders once believed could reach billions of dollars a year.
- Inside iOS, users often must say “ChatGPT” to route a request through Siri and then get condensed replies in small interface panes, and OpenAI’s internal data shows people overwhelmingly choose the standalone ChatGPT app instead.
- The arrangement involved no direct Apple payment for OpenAI’s technology, tying upside mainly to ChatGPT subscriptions sold through iOS where Apple takes its standard App Store cut.
- Apple is preparing iOS 27 to support multiple AI models, with Reuters and Bloomberg reporting tests of Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude ahead of a June 8 WWDC reveal, and Apple has raised privacy worries and frustration over OpenAI’s hiring of Apple engineers.