The big apple turnover, Tim cooked, Sam served: Apple sues OpenAI, saying over 400 ex-Apple staff joined the company and some stole trade secrets for it. - 9to5Mac

Apple sues OpenAI over trade secret theft, alleging hardware chief Tang Tan directed staff to leak confidential designs. - CNBC

Apple Sues OpenAI in Blockbuster Case - Bloomberg

OpenAI denies Apple's trade secret theft allegations, says it has no interest in rivals' trade secrets. - 9to5Mac

Retention policy: retain plausible deniability? OpenAI is facing calls for “serious sanctions” over claims of hiding, deleting logs to keep news organizations from snooping through them. - Ars Technica

New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence it already searched training data and chat logs for copyrighted works. - Yahoo

Greg Brockman will absorb Fidji Simo's executive duties after she stepped down citing chronic illness, and OpenAI won't hire a replacement ahead of its IPO - CNBC

OpenAI safety head Johannes Heidecke to leave after reorganization - Bloomberg

Insider trading and bullying with a gloss of patriomatism: Trump unveiled a 90-plus-point AI Action Plan the same day his accounts bought up to $5 million each in Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft stock - Yahoo

Trump administration pushed Apple to use Intel's fabs after averting steep chip tariffs, sources say. - The Wall Street Journal

Chips ahoy: Trump administration grants UAE free access to US AI chips, drawing "corrupt deal" accusations tied to crypto ties. - The Independent

Commerce Department eases export restrictions on the UAE, clearing the way for advanced AI chip sales. - Bloomberg

Socialism for the rich: Opinion column accuses Trump of hypocrisy for pursuing government equity stakes in AI companies while calling Democrats socialist. - Techdirt

AI skills now appear in 73% of U.S. tech job postings, up from 15% in 2024, as software listings fall 22% - CIO Dive

Self-replacing help wanted: The big business of hiring professionals to teach AI to replace them. - The New York Times

The gig is up: Work in the AI economy is deliberately organized through an "outsourcing maze," writes the Weizenbaum Institute’s Sana Ahmad, enabling global capital to commoditize labor and extract value from workers via layered intermediaries. - Tech Policy Press

Experts warn senior leaders shouldn't assume they're insulated from AI disruption and must personally rethink strategy, structure, and incentives - Fast Company

Rejected job candidates rated AI interview fairness differently based on the avatar's race and gender - Digital Trends

Stanford graduate's yearlong AI-driven job search yields only automated rejections amid Silicon Valley hiring slowdown. - Le Monde

Your time is up: Kaiser nurses say AI monitoring flags calls over 15 minutes for discipline, compromising patient care and fueling union contract disputes - Fast Company

Scaling law, but for debt: Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Nvidia, Oracle and SpaceX issued $182 billion in AI-related bonds this year, up nearly 1,300% from 2025 - Yahoo

Memory lane for price hikes: AI data centers are consuming so much RAM and storage that prices are rising across laptops, game consoles, and phones - Fast Company

Core memory, core PCE: Goldman Sachs says AI-driven inflation will hit the US hardest, lifting core PCE inflation by up to 50 basis points. - Business Insider

Worst-ever memory shortage looms in 2027, SK Hynix's CEO warns, with demand outstripping supply beyond 2030. - Reuters

DIMM and Dimmer: SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won calls SK Hynix's $26.5 billion US listing a "dream come true" amid strong AI demand. - Bloomberg

Just asking questions: Research finds terrorist groups like Boko Haram increasingly use AI chatbots for bomb-making, attack planning, and battlefield tactics, not just propaganda. - The New York Times

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Interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members show the group using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and other AI for planning. - Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy

Exfiltration .envy: Researchers demonstrate 'Ghostcommit,' a PNG-hidden prompt injection that tricks AI coding agents into leaking .env secrets via merged pull requests. - BleepingComputer

AI agents' exploit-finding success rate jumped from 2% to 56% in a year, Anthropic's SCONE-bench study finds, amid $972M in crypto hacks - Bitcoin Foundation

Source: trust me bro? Google's AI Overview repeated fabricated claims from a fake company website, confusing and alarming a ProPublica reporter investigating a Texas refinery - Techdirt

FINRA, but for hallucinations and chemical weapons: Google proposes an independent, government-supervised industry body to regulate frontier AI safety practices, raising constitutional questions. - The Wall Street Journal

Plan B but for tech abortions: AI Futures Project proposes 'Plan A,' a US-China cooperative pause on frontier AI research to build safety scaffolding. - Semafor

Bagholders, by AI: Surveys find growing numbers of Americans lose money after following financial advice from AI chatbots. - Fast Company

A professor warns AI's true danger is "epistemic atrophy": Wharton research found people accepted wrong AI advice 79.8% of the time - Business Insider

Ride share, ride-surveil: Waymo's always-on in-cabin cameras, which feed police without notifying riders, flagged two San Mateo teens over what proved to be a toy gun. - Business Insider

Catch me if you can: Austin police tried to ticket a Waymo robotaxi that drove into oncoming traffic, exposing gaps in how regulators enforce traffic laws on driverless cars - The Wall Street Journal

Muse-ical chairs: Meta discontinues Instagram Muse AI image feature after CAA, SAG-AFTRA criticize its opt-out consent policy. - Variety

Meta pauses Instagram AI tool Muse Image after privacy and copyright complaints from users and Hollywood agencies. - The New York Times

Shopping therapy, without the annoying checkout form: Visa completed a live AI agent payment test, letting an agent buy from a fashion brand without a checkout page - Yahoo

Permiso Security launched a Risk Score Engine giving continuous FICO-style risk scores to human, machine, and AI identities. - SiliconANGLE

Anger translator for CEOs: Palantir CEO Alex Karp has a 15-step plan for CEOs who are overcharged for AI that extracts their value. - The Wall Street Journal

AI competition shifts from biggest models to cost, routing, and orchestration systems, some industry leaders say. - CNBC

Slop fiction: new detector called StoryScope flags AI-written fiction by spotting over-explained themes and single-track plots, not surface style quirks - 404 Media

And I thought LinkedIn was so authentic: Study finds LinkedIn has the highest share of AI-generated long-form posts among major platforms. - Fast Company

Anthropic adds a built-in tabbed browser to Claude Code desktop, letting the AI read and interact with websites directly. - Digital Trends

YouTube expanded its Ask YouTube conversational AI search to US web users, searching its full catalog and grouping results by video type - Digital Trends

Sixtyfour founder Saarth Shah built research agents graded against expert-built benchmarks, shipping only score-improving changes. - TNW | Artificial-Intelligence

Paperless chase: University of Chicago Law School bans laptops in first-year classes to curb AI-assisted cheating. - Business Insider

AI Eagle has landed: Logo for Trump International Airport in Palm Beach appears AI-generated, with asymmetrical eagle and incorrect Great Seal details. - Futurism

AI-generated World Cup content is fooling X users, who mistake fake clips and images for real events. - Futurism

National Lampoon’s AI vacation: Travel photographer built an agentic AI "digital twin" of his family using Claude to plan trips. - Fast Company

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