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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple sues OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees stole “Apple's trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI”, and says OpenAI never responded to its concerns — Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft.
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| CNBC: |
Apple alleges that Tang Tan, OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple VP, has directed Apple staffers interviewing at OpenAI to share Apple secrets — Apple on Friday sued OpenAI in federal court in Northern California, alleging trade secret theft, saying that the artificial intelligence lab took …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple says OpenAI leadership “normalized” misconduct and OpenAI's hardware business is “rotten to its core by its illegal reliance” on stolen trade secrets — Apple filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI over allegations of trade secret theft and breach of contract.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple claims OpenAI recruited 400+ ex-Apple employees, including an iPhone engineer who allegedly downloaded confidential hardware files before joining OpenAI — Apple Inc. sued OpenAI for trade secret theft, accusing the artificial intelligence startup and its hardware chief of engaging …
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| Megan Morrone / Axios: |
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Phia, a shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates that has raised $43.5M, appears to be using fake clicks or “cookie stuffing” to claim affiliate commissions — Phia, an advertising startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates, daughter of billionaire Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates …
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LinkedIn: Mark Andres and Olivia Solon
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| Corbin Bolies / Variety: |
Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism — Meta said it will discontinue an AI feature that allowed users to generate images using public Instagram accounts following days of criticism … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
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| Reuters: |
SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung says the memory industry is heading for its worst-ever supply shortage in 2027 and demand will outstrip supply beyond 2030 — SK Hynix (000660.KS) Chief Executive Kwak Noh-jung said the global memory industry is heading for its worst-ever supply shortage in 2027 …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
SK Hynix closed up 12.76% at $168.01 in its first day of trading on Nasdaq, after raising $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company — SK Hynix rose 13% in its first day of trading on Nasdaq, closing at $168.01, as U.S. investors jumped at the opportunity to get a stake …
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| Bloomberg: |
SK Hynix's historic US stock market listing is a bet that the AI boom is breaking the memory chip industry's decades-long boom-and-bust cycle — South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. just pulled off the largest public listing by a foreign company in US market history.| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
The Department of Commerce loosens export controls to the UAE, letting G42 and US companies like Apple, Meta, and xAI export AI chips to UAE without a license — The U.S. Department of Commerce loosened export controls on the United Arab Emirates on Friday, making it easier to export military items …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
OpenAI's head of safety, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving as OpenAI integrates its research and safety teams; Mia Glaese will become VP of research and safety — Johannes Heidecke's departure comes as OpenAI tries to further integrate its research and safety teams.
More: Bloomberg. X: @zeffmax, @zeffmax, @yonashav, @katiemiller, and @andrewcurran_
Forums: r/technology, r/OpenAI, and Slashdot
| Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive: |
CISA says weak security controls around the use of public GitHub repos allowed a contractor to accidentally leak private cloud access keys and other credentials — The agency's blog post came as lawmakers pressed the agency for answers. — Weak security controls around the use …
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| Max Spero / Pangram Labs: |
An analysis of 1M+ social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250+ words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41% — A first look at analytics from our Pangram Chrome extension — Two months ago, we launched our Chrome extension to help combat the rising slop problem on social media.
More: 404 Media, The Register, Fast Company, and Business Insider
LinkedIn: Mike Schoonover and Dustin Volz
Bluesky: @dangillmor, @404media.co, @informor, @jtlg, and @caulfieldtim
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky interim CEO Toni Schneider becomes the company's permanent CEO, four months after succeeding Jay Graber — In March, Bluesky's longtime CEO, Jay Graber, stepped down from that role to become its chief innovation officer. Graber was immediately succeeded by Toni Schneider … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: activist investor Elliott has built a large stake in car insurance software maker CCC, which is exploring a potential sale and has a ~$3.5B market cap — Elliott Investment Management has built a large stake in car-insurance software provider CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. …
More: Reuters
| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail the Trump admin's heavy-handed intervention to aid Intel, including pushing it to expand local capacity and pressuring Apple to use Intel's fabs — The chip maker's business is improving, with government twisting the arms of potential customers and partners including Apple and NvidiaSponsor Posts
Command Line:
Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
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The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
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