OPENAI THREATENS APPLE WITH LAWSUIT — SIRI DEAL PROMISED BILLIONS, DELIVERED ALMOST NOTHING The relationship between OpenAI and Apple, once celebrated as one of the signature AI deals of the decade, has deteriorated badly. OpenAI is now working with outside legal counsel and preparing a potential breach of contract notice against Apple, according to people familiar with the situation. The move could be the opening shot in what would be a historic legal fight between two of the most powerful technology companies in the world. When Apple and OpenAI struck their deal to integrate ChatGPT into Siri as part of iOS 18, OpenAI believed the partnership would generate billions of dollars annually in subscription revenue. Those projections collapsed. An OpenAI executive told Bloomberg the company has done everything required from a product standpoint while Apple has not held up its end of the agreement. The timing is painful. Apple’s annual developer conference WWDC is weeks away, and the company is widely expected to announce that Google Gemini will become a Siri alternative, effectively handing a competitor a prime placement on a billion iPhones. OpenAI has not yet filed a formal lawsuit. Lawyers are weighing a breach notice as a first step, hoping the threat of litigation forces Apple back to the table. The dispute lays bare the mounting tension between AI companies desperate for distribution and the platform gatekeepers who control access to hundreds of millions of users but set every term of the deal. Keywords: OpenAI Apple lawsuit, Siri ChatGPT deal, OpenAI breach of contract, Apple AI partnership