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Maxwell Zeff / Wired: 10 mins ago

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

Thinking Machines Lab: 1½ hours ago

Thinking Machines says its mission is to build AI that people and organizations can shape and make their own, and that “extends human will and judgment”

Reuters: 2 hours ago

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

Corbin Bolies / Variety: 2½ hours ago

Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: 3 hours ago

In response to Apple's trade secret theft lawsuit, OpenAI says “we have no interest in other companies' trade secrets”

Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive: 3 hours ago

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

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: 4 hours ago

Bluesky interim CEO Toni Schneider becomes the company's permanent CEO, four months after succeeding Jay Graber

Noam Scheiber / New York Times: 4 hours ago

A US NLRB judge rules that Atlassian had illegally fired an employee in 2023 for pushing back against manager layoffs, and orders reinstatement and compensation

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: 4½ hours ago

Apple says OpenAI leadership “normalized” misconduct and OpenAI's hardware business is “rotten to its core by its illegal reliance” on stolen trade secrets

Aaron Tilley / The Information: 5 hours ago

In its lawsuit, Apple chronicles in vivid detail how its former employees that went to work for OpenAI allegedly violated their confidentiality agreements

Megan Morrone / Axios: 5 hours ago

Apple alleges that a former Apple engineer kept a work-issued Apple laptop and exploited a bug to access Apple's cloud file storage while employed by OpenAI

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: 5 hours ago

Apple claims OpenAI recruited 400+ ex-Apple employees, including an iPhone engineer who allegedly downloaded confidential hardware files before joining OpenAI

CNBC: 5½ hours ago

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

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: 5½ hours ago

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

CNBC: 6 hours ago

Source: Greg Brockman will continue to oversee OpenAI's products as the company doesn't plan to hire anyone to replace Fidji Simo after she stepped down

Karen Freifeld / Reuters: 6 hours ago

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

Bloomberg: 7 hours ago

China drops a numerical target for urban job creation in its five-year plan, the first such omission since the 1990s, amid volatility fueled by AI displacement

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: 7 hours ago

Filing: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Jerry Lu of giving confidential info to rival Sidechat after he met with Fizz as a potential investor in 2022

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

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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

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

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

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

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Ina Fried / Axios:

Privacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which let users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts

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

Adam Satariano / New York Times:

In preliminary findings, the EU Commission said Facebook's and Instagram's “addictive design” violates the DSA, telling Meta to make changes or risk hefty fines

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

CNBC:

Source: Greg Brockman will continue to oversee OpenAI's products as the company doesn't plan to hire anyone to replace Fidji Simo after she stepped down

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:

Bluesky interim CEO Toni Schneider becomes the company's permanent CEO, four months after succeeding Jay Graber

Bloomberg:

Analysis: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle, the top spenders on new US data centers, collectively added ~$350B in debt over the past five years

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

Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg:

Circle says it received US regulator approval to start a national digital-currency trust bank, allowing it to offer institutional custody services

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Filing: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Jerry Lu of giving confidential info to rival Sidechat after he met with Fizz as a potential investor in 2022

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:

OpenAI and Google sold AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, reigniting calls for tighter US regulation of AI models

Thinking Machines Lab:

Thinking Machines says its mission is to build AI that people and organizations can shape and make their own, and that “extends human will and judgment”

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