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Altman says he is a 'mega Apple fanboy' and is 'very sad' Apple sued OpenAI

Sam Altman says he is a 'mega Apple fanboy' and was 'very sad' that Apple sued OpenAI.

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Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in July 2025, alleging that OpenAI engaged in a 'coordinated pattern of misconduct at an institutional level' to steal Apple's trade secrets. [1] Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said on the Sources Podcast with Alex Heath that 38,000 ChatGPT queries use the same amount of water as producing a single almond in California. [2] Apple requested a preliminary injunction in the lawsuit that could delay OpenAI's plans, and OpenAI declared that Apple is seeking to delay the product because it fears competition that might reduce demand for Apple's own devices. [3] On 2024-06, Apple and OpenAI announced a partnership at Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, which would integrate ChatGPT into Apple products, but this now stands in conflict with the 2025 lawsuit. [4] OpenAI responded to the lawsuit by stating it has 'no interest in other companies' trade secrets' and that the complaint falls short of Apple's 'reputation for obsessing over the smallest details'. [5] Altman said that data centers no longer use evaporative cooling and that modern large data centers use water equivalent to an office building's sinks and toilets. [6] Altman's past statements indicate that one ChatGPT response uses between 1 and 50 mL of water, or about 0.0002 to 0.013 gallons per query. [7] Based on those figures, the article calculates that it takes about 85 to 5,500 ChatGPT queries to equal the water used for one almond, not 38,000. [8]
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  1. Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in July 2025, alleging that OpenAI engaged in a 'coordinated pattern of misconduct at an institutional level' to steal Apple's trade secrets. · businessinsider.comUnited States
  2. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said on the Sources Podcast with Alex Heath that 38,000 ChatGPT queries use the same amount of water as producing a single almond in California. · Tom's Hardware
  3. Apple requested a preliminary injunction in the lawsuit that could delay OpenAI's plans, and OpenAI declared that Apple is seeking to delay the product because it fears competition that might reduce demand for Apple's own devices. · businessinsider.comUnited States
  4. On 2024-06, Apple and OpenAI announced a partnership at Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, which would integrate ChatGPT into Apple products, but this now stands in conflict with the 2025 lawsuit. · businessinsider.comUnited States
  5. OpenAI responded to the lawsuit by stating it has 'no interest in other companies' trade secrets' and that the complaint falls short of Apple's 'reputation for obsessing over the smallest details'. · businessinsider.comUnited States
  6. Altman said that data centers no longer use evaporative cooling and that modern large data centers use water equivalent to an office building's sinks and toilets. · Tom's Hardware
  7. Altman's past statements indicate that one ChatGPT response uses between 1 and 50 mL of water, or about 0.0002 to 0.013 gallons per query. · Tom's Hardware
  8. Based on those figures, the article calculates that it takes about 85 to 5,500 ChatGPT queries to equal the water used for one almond, not 38,000. · Tom's Hardware
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