AI Daily Brief

Monday, July 13, 2026

Curated AI news from the last 24 hours — models, agents, enterprise, and developer tools.

OpenAI
OpenAI

Apple Sues OpenAI for Trade Secret Theft Over AI Hardware Designs

Apple filed suit against OpenAI in the Northern District of California, alleging trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract tied to OpenAI's upcoming AI hardware devices. The complaint cites more than 400 former Apple employees, many from its chip design, hardware, and on-device AI teams, now working at OpenAI. The case could complicate OpenAI's plans for AI hardware devices expected to launch later in 2026.

bloomberg.com ↗
Microsoft
Microsoft

Microsoft Frontier Company: AI engineering that amplifies and protects your intelligence

Microsoft launched Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating business dedicated to delivering enterprise AI deployments using Microsoft's existing AI tools. The unit is backed by a $2.5 billion investment and staffed with 6,000 industry and engineering experts focused on helping large organizations move AI projects into production.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Replaces OpenAI, Anthropic With Own AI in Some Apps

Microsoft is swapping OpenAI and Anthropic models for its own internally built MAI models inside products like Excel and Outlook, aiming to cut AI infrastructure costs. Tens of thousands of AI prompts in the two apps are now being handled weekly by Microsoft's in-house models instead of third-party ones.

bloomberg.com ↗
Meta
Meta

Introducing Muse Image and Muse Video

Meta introduced Muse Image, a new image-generation model, alongside an updated Muse Spark 1.1 aimed at agentic and coding workloads. Muse Image will take over image generation in Meta AI and will power more than 30 new effects across WhatsApp and Instagram.

ai.meta.com ↗
Meta

Meta's new AI chips will begin production in September

Meta is on track to begin manufacturing the latest version of its custom AI chip in September, according to an internal memo. Meta co-designed the chip with Broadcom and will use TSMC for manufacturing, part of its push to reduce reliance on Nvidia hardware for AI workloads.

techcrunch.com ↗