Apple Turns OpenAI’s Hiring Into a Hardware Fight
Tang Tan’s reported Apple departure became a lawsuit over OpenAI’s hardware recruiting in 2.5 years. The program still reportedly considers a 2026 unveiling and 2027 release achievable.
The Exit Door Becomes a Border
In roughly 2.5 years, the AI-device contest moved from Tang Tan’s reported departure from Apple to litigation over what former engineers may carry. OpenAI still targets a 2026 unveiling and plans to ship in 2027.
Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the public debut of the new Siri AI
Try the new Siri AI and system-wide performance improvements. — Adventurous early adopters, your moment has arrived …
Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark, sign a letter titled We Must Act Now, warning of rapid AI-led job displacement
Nearly 200 economists signed a letter calling for policymakers to do more to understand and respond to potential A.I. disruptions.
Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes local results, removes promotional web content, and more, rolling out to Windows Insiders
Windows 11's search user experience is getting a big update, with Microsoft moving to prioritize local results, remove promotional content, and much more.
The EU blacklists Russian intelligence group members it says were responsible for spying on and hacking targets across the EU and Ukraine from as early as 2010
Moscow's Federal Security Service is behind the cyber espionage and sabotage campaigns, EU says.
Apple's OpenAI lawsuit follows months of simmering tensions and highlights OpenAI's hardware chief Tang Tan's strained relationship with former boss John Ternus
When iPhone engineer Chang Liu quit for a job at OpenAI's nascent hardware division, Apple Inc. says he left with more than just years of experience.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says after the summer the bloc is set to propose a “social media start date for minors” with “gradual access”
Brussels will propose gradual access for different ages in response to concerns over child safety online
Meta says it will spend an extra $40B on its nearly 4,000-acre data center campus in Louisiana, aiming for 5GW+ of compute, pushing its total spend beyond $250B
Meta Platforms Inc. has committed to spending an additional $40 billion on its sprawling data center campus in Louisiana …
A coalition of 12 states led by California files an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger, alleging it lessens competition in three markets
A coalition of 12 states filed an antitrust lawsuit on Monday to block the merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. …
Source: OpenAI still believes it is on track to unveil its first device in 2026 and release it in 2027; Apple's lawsuit may complicate hiring and supply chains
Apple Inc.'s lawsuit accusing OpenAI of systematically stealing its intellectual property threatens to disrupt …
Anthropic research based on ~310K anonymized Claude conversations shows how Claude's expressed values and behaviors vary across models and languages
Claude doesn't behave the same way in every conversation. According to new research published Monday, AI giant Anthropic found …
OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI may be able to put pressure on Anthropic by emphasizing cost efficiency, as business customers increasingly scrutinize AI spending
Three prominent artificial intelligence developers released new models over the past week. They all promise to be more advanced …
Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 to the lowest Q2 levels since 2013 amid the DRAM and NAND shortage; Samsung returns to #1 with a 24% market share
- Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 2026 reaching the lowest second-quarter levels since 2013 as the DRAM and NAND shortage intensified.
Intel plans to invest €5B to expand chip manufacturing at its Leixlip facility in Ireland; in 2025, Intel canceled a planned €30B factory in Magdeburg, Germany
Move strengthens Dublin's role in Europe's bid to secure advanced semiconductor manufacturing
Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark, sign a letter titled We Must Act Now, warning of rapid AI-led job displacement
Nearly 200 economists signed a letter calling for policymakers to do more to understand and respond to potential A.I. disruptions.
Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield, a Monzo co-founder and one of the biggest names in UK tech, to join its compute team; he is taking a leave of absence from YC
The AI talent wars aren't letting up — and neither is Anthropic's big-name hiring spree. — The AI startup has hired Tom Blomfield …
Psychologist Peter Gray argues that school stress, not smartphone use, is the main driver of the teen mental health crisis, challenging Jonathan Haidt's thesis
Apple's lawsuit could sidetrack OpenAI's hardware aspirations for years, or possibly forever, as the startup gets into yet another controversy and messy divorce
Sources: Trump admin and industry groups have discussed streamlining releases of US open models of equal or lesser capability than leading Chinese open models
Plus, data centers could end up consuming less energy than we expect. — Exclusive: The Trump administration and the AI industry …
Sources: Apple is taping out the M7 with NPU upgrades and plans an M7 Ultra with 1.5TB of RAM, and the M8 for 2028; new Pencils are coming with new iPad Pros
Singapore-based and Alibaba-backed video generation startup PixVerse says it closed a Series C extension to raise $439M total for the round, valuing it at $2B+
Singapore-based video-generation startup PixVerse said today that it has closed its Series C extension, with a total of $439 million raised in the round.
EU Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath says the EC is set to propose new digital rules by year-end aimed at protecting consumers from online spending traps
SK Hynix's stock falls 15%+ in Seoul, its largest-ever decline, after a strong Nasdaq debut, as investors book profits amid its US stock valuation uncertainty
Gauntlet, which helps institutions and crypto companies allocate their digital assets, raised a $125M Series C from Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings
Investigation: Western intelligence officials identify a Russian military intelligence unit in Tokyo that smuggles high-tech components for the war in Ukraine
Doc: DHS analysts twice dismissed signs of intruders inside the DHS' network, first detected in May, as harmless activity before confirming a breach in June
Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia, on Nvidia's chips and AI models for autonomous driving, lidar's usefulness for Level 4 autonomy, and more
Xinzhou Wu on autonomy, Chinese cars, and if we really need lidar — Today, I'm talking with Xinzhou Wu, who is the head of automotive at Nvidia.
Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M+ at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures
Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new round of funding led by Robot Ventures …
Apple's stock is up 16% since June 25, adding ~$650B in market value and pushing shares back to record territory, as investors flee an AI stock selloff to Apple
London-based Valarian, which allows companies to use US cloud providers for AI workloads but retain control of their data, raised a $50M Series A led by NEA
Max Buchan started advocating for infrastructure sovereignty when, as he puts it, “globalization and Davos were still cool.”
Filing: Google urged the European Commission not to target DNS resolvers, VPNs, or IPs to fight piracy, calling the measures ineffective and easily circumvented
Anthropic says it is “extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19”
NYC-based Vendelux, a live B2B event information platform for CMOs and marketing and sales teams, raised a $50M Series B led by Tribeca Venture Partners
AirDNA: during the FIFA World Cup group stage, platforms such as Airbnb saw 52K+ new listings in US host cities, while hotel bookings fell short of expectations
Seattle-based Augmodo, whose AI-powered “Smartbadges” worn by employees track shelf inventory, raised $21M led by TQ Ventures at a $350M valuation
China says President Xi will keynote the opening ceremony of the three-day World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday, his first appearance at the event
A Taiwanese minister says TSMC plans two more advanced chip packaging plants in the Chiayi Science Park, with all four set to generate $9.35B+ in annual output
Open-weight AI models face an existential US policy test; Anthropic is leading a regulatory capture campaign against Chinese models over distillation concerns
again — Devs just gonna keep coping about how only Fable can do real work until we're all stuck licensing the thought of considering training a model for $99/month. [embedded post]@equaton.eu:Big T...
A look at Bending Spoons' hiring process: the company, which owns Vimeo, AOL, and Evernote, received 800,000 job applications last year and made only 286 hires
A look at the growing anti-AI movement in the Bay Area, as the disappearance of Sam Kirchner, co-founder of a hard-line activist group, has the movement on edge
Memo: Tang Jie, the founder of Z.ai, the Chinese lab behind GLM models, argues frontier AI capabilities should stay “as open and widely accessible as possible”
Sources: US officials estimate unauthorized distillation costs US AI labs up to $6B/year; US AI labs told the White House it could become an existential threat
Sources: Shein is targeting a $40B+ valuation after winning Beijing's approval for a Hong Kong IPO, set for as early as Q3; Shein canceled its US IPO in 2024
Current AI market dynamics point to frontier models becoming commodity infrastructure as the token crunch eases, with value shifting to products built on top
AI is in a supply crunch today, but what happens when we come out of it? …