Apple seeks injunction against OpenAI in trade-secrets case as revamped Siri arrives in iOS 27 beta

Apple escalated its legal fight with OpenAI, filing for a preliminary injunction and alleging that former Apple employees carried confidential data to OpenAI, with as many as 11 additional ex-employees potentially implicated. The move sharpens a high-stakes trade-secrets dispute between two of AI's biggest players and adds a legal dimension to their increasingly competitive relationship.

At the same time, Apple finally shipped the long-delayed Siri overhaul in the iOS 27 developer beta. The new Siri supports natural back-and-forth conversation and personal-context understanding — able to draw on photos, messages, emails, and on-device information to enrich responses — and is notably powered by a Google Gemini partnership rather than OpenAI or purely Apple's own models. TechCrunch's hands-on called the result 'anticlimactic' despite the long wait, suggesting the capability gap versus standalone assistants remains visible.

The pairing of these two stories is telling: Apple is litigating against one AI lab while leaning on another (Google) to power its flagship assistant, underscoring how thoroughly Apple has outsourced frontier model capability. The Gemini-powered Siri also makes Apple a major distribution channel for Google's models. Watch the injunction ruling for early signals on the trade-secrets case's strength, and user reaction to whether the revamped Siri finally closes the assistant gap or arrives already behind.