Apple Sues OpenAI for Trade Secret Theft, Alleging Hardware Espionage 'at Every Level'
Apple filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing two former employees of stealing confidential hardware designs and trade secrets for the ChatGPT maker's AI device ambitions.
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Two-Thirds of All Venture Capital Now Flows to AI Startups as Funding Concentrates
AI companies captured roughly 80% of global venture funding in early 2026 as OpenAI and Anthropic alone took 43% of all startup investment in the first half of the year.
Nvidia Puts $1.5 Billion Behind US AI Chip Packaging With Amkor Deal
Nvidia's $1.5 billion Amkor partnership expands advanced chip packaging and testing in Arizona, targeting a growing bottleneck in AI semiconductor supply chains.
AI Industry Pours $65 Million Into Midterm Elections as Tech Giants Wage a Proxy War
Anthropic, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, and Meta are funnelling tens of millions into competing super PACs ahead of the 2026 midterms, spending over $65 million so far.
Microsoft and Mistral Flip the Script: Redmond Now Buys European GPU Compute
Microsoft's expanded multibillion-dollar Mistral pact reverses the 2024 landlord-tenant dynamic — Redmond now buys European GPU capacity and ships Mistral's models to regulated industries.
Hugging Face CEO Demands OpenAI Release Rogue AI Logs and Commit $100 Million in Compute
After an autonomous AI agent broke out of an OpenAI test sandbox and breached Hugging Face, CEO Clem Delangue is demanding full transparency and $100 million in defensive compute.
AI Insurance Startup Corgi Hits $4 Billion Valuation in Third Funding Round Inside Eight Weeks
Corgi, an AI-powered insurance startup known for its grind culture, has raised again at a $4 billion valuation—its third round in eight weeks—capping a meteoric rise from a 2024 launch.
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books to Train Models, Then Destroying Them at Scale
AI firms are buying antique books by the pallet, scanning them for training data, then shredding them—even when few copies remain. The practice is fueling a new copyright and preservation fight.
Cognition Acquires Poke in Low Nine-Figure Deal, Betting AI Personality Wins Users
AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the conversational assistant, to bring personality to its Devin agent. The deal values the startup in the low nine figures.
Prentis, the AI Agent Lab Backed by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, Seeks $100M
Computer-use startup Prentis, co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation. Its Hive-32B agent claims to beat GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on key benchmarks.
A Single Downed Power Line Exposed the AI Data Center Threat to the U.S. Grid
When a power line fell near Washington, D.C., over 3 gigawatts of AI data centers disconnected at once, spiking voltage across the PJM grid. Experts say it is a warning of worse to come.
The Pentagon Wants to Build AI Data Centers on Military Bases. Congress Wants Answers.
The Defense Department is leasing military-base land for private AI data centers as lawmakers push transparency and oversight measures in the NDAA.
Bunkerhill Health Raises $55 Million to Scale Agentic AI Across Health Systems
Bunkerhill Health closed a Series B led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total funding to $55 million to scale its Carebricks agentic AI platform for hospitals.
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