OpenAI alleges an ex-employee now at Apple sent more than 100 files on an unreleased device to a personal account. Apple, which sued OpenAI in July, says it found no evidence, so each company now faces untested allegations from the other.
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John Ternus makes himself the final decision maker on Apple design
Apple CEO John Ternus works hands-on in the design studio several times a week, Bloomberg reports, against Tim Cook's roughly monthly visits. With no chief design officer search underway, Apple's former hardware chief now has the final say on its software interfaces too.
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Forensics on an Apple-issued MacBook that Chang Liu kept using after January let Apple argue destruction of evidence rather than definition of secrets, days before a judge weighs blocking OpenAI's hardware work.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers The Wall Street Journal puts the price above $300 million for software that replaces a phone's tuned camera pipeline with one network trained per module, already shipping in Honor's 600 series. OpenAI's optics decisions now come first.
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The reported price for Glass Imaging is more than $300 million against a roughly $100 million valuation a year ago and $29.3 million of disclosed venture money in, and OpenAI has not said what the technology is for.
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Oppenheimer found only 8% of US consumers would trust Meta with their passwords, the access its Muse Charm keychain needs to shop for them. Meta is shipping it by December anyway, so its retail deals depend on a permission most US buyers say they would withhold.
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OpenAI holds out for $1.5tn after investors approached at $1.2tn
The New York Times reports OpenAI is weighing one more private round at about $1.5tn before it lists, roughly double its last valuation. It points to demand for its Codex coding tool to justify the number.
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Glass Imaging trains a separate neural network for each lens and sensor pairing, so the reported purchase hands OpenAI a bench measurement job on every camera it eventually ships. Neither company has confirmed the deal.
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OpenAI asks the court to end Apple's trade-secret suit on pleading specificity
The defendants want dismissal with prejudice, which means the October 1 hearing turns on whether Apple named its secrets precisely enough, not on whether two former employees did what Apple says they did.
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The Plaud One Explorer Edition records the room from its charging case over its own 4G connection, which means the recorder that turns up in your Monday standup never touches the office Wi-Fi or a phone your IT team manages.
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Slate priced a truck at $24,950, then hired someone to make it not feel cheap
Wired's interview with Slate design head Tisha Johnson makes the operator's case: budget hardware only converts when the cheapest thing about it is not the way it looks.
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