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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White House Weighs FINRA-Style Regulator to Police AI Models as Tech Industry Pushes Back
The White House is reviewing a proposal for an independent AI regulator modeled on FINRA, reporting to the SEC, amid Silicon Valley complaints about inconsistent model curbs.
Nonprofit Current AI Wants to Build a Free 'World Wide Web' for Artificial Intelligence
Backed by $400 million and starting with 22 Indian languages, the nonprofit Current AI is racing to build a free, public-interest alternative to Big Tech's commercial AI systems.
AI Debt Headed Toward $570 Billion as Goldman Sachs Warns of a Looming 'Tsunami'
Morgan Stanley sees AI debt issuance nearly doubling to $570 billion in 2026, while Goldman Sachs raises an internal alarm that the bond market's capacity to absorb it is nearing collapse.
Alibaba Launches Qwen3.8-Max With 2.4 Trillion Parameters, Claiming It Trails Only Anthropic's Fable 5
Alibaba's Qwen team unveiled a 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max preview, its first trillion-parameter multimodal model, saying it trails only Anthropic's Fable 5 as it moves to blunt Kimi K3's momentum.
German Consortium Releases Soofi S, an Open 30B Model That Tops English and German Benchmarks
A German consortium released Soofi S 30B-A3B, a hybrid MoE model trained on Deutsche Telekom's Munich cloud that tops fully open models on English and German benchmarks.
Chinese Researchers Cut 3D Optical Chip Production From Hours to Seconds
A Chinese research team has slashed 3D optical chip production time from hours to seconds, a manufacturing leap with major implications for AI hardware.
DeepSeek Targets $74 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round Ahead of Shanghai IPO
DeepSeek is raising roughly $7.4 billion at a $74 billion valuation as annualized revenue nears $500 million, with plans to list on Shanghai's STAR Market.
Microsoft Trains Sales Teams to Push Its Own AI Models Over OpenAI and Anthropic
At an internal FY27 strategy meeting, Microsoft executives told salespeople to talk down OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic and pitch its own in-house AI models.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3: 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Open Model Challenges Claude and GPT
China's Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open model that trails only Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol and tops the Frontend Code Arena.
Netflix Confirms $587 Million Cash Deal for Ben Affleck's AI Startup InterPositive
Netflix has confirmed it paid $587 million in cash for Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive, one of the largest Hollywood-AI acquisitions to date.
Alibaba Open-Sources SAIL AI Software Stack to Challenge NVIDIA's CUDA Dominance
Alibaba unveiled an open-source AI software stack called SAIL at WAIC 2026, taking aim at NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem as China builds full-stack AI systems.
EU Orders Google to Open Android Microphone, Camera and Screen to Rival AI Assistants
The European Commission ordered Google under the Digital Markets Act to give rival AI assistants the same Android access Gemini enjoys, by August 2027.
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