Apple sued OpenAI on July 10, 2026, alleging a coordinated campaign to steal hardware trade secrets, naming hardware chief Tang Tan and others as defendants.
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NYT-led coalition asks a federal judge to sanction OpenAI, alleging it withheld evidence for two years in a copyright case filed in December 2023.
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A new survey of economists finds deep uncertainty about AI's near-term effects on productivity, employment, and growth, likening the moment to forecasting in a fog.
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Anthropic published research on "J-Space," a hidden internal workspace in Claude that supports reasoning steps hidden from visible responses, while stopping short of claiming consciousness.
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Supreme Court declines to block Texas SB 2420, letting app store age verification and parental consent rules take effect while First Amendment challenges continue.
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California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey have calculated up to $1.4 trillion in penalties against Meta over child addiction claims, nearly equal to its $1.5T market value.
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AI workloads push U.S. data center water use to roughly one trillion liters a year, straining Texas and other water-stressed regions.
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Beijing is weighing restrictions on overseas access to top Chinese AI models, citing geopolitical and security concerns. Details and scope remain unconfirmed.
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Meta rolled out Muse Spark 1.1, a coding-focused AI model update under AI chief Alexandr Wang, with aggressive pricing and an open-weight variant in development.
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ByteDance Seed launches Seedream 5.0 Pro, a multimodal image model focused on infographic layouts, precision editing, and photorealistic rendering.
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OpenAI launched GPT-Live, a voice-first model trained end-to-end on speech for real-time, full-duplex conversation, available via its real-time API.
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xAI announced Grok 4.5 via a news post on x.ai. Source page was unreachable during writing; details pending verification.
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Anthropic has removed an undisclosed telemetry component from its Claude Code tool after developers flagged privacy concerns. The report cites lack of disclosure, not a confirmed breach.
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Anthropic's Claude Cowork moves from desktop to web and mobile in beta for Max users, with Dispatch routing tasks across devices.
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Meta unveiled Muse Image on Tuesday via the Meta AI app, Instagram Stories, and WhatsApp, drawing early criticism over an opt-out Instagram photo-tagging feature.
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