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Apple v. OpenAI, week 2: what's in the case file and what may come this week

After Friday's headlines, the docket in case 5:26-cv-07078 spent its first weekend unchanged: the twelve entries are still the ones from day one. We go through them entry by entry — fees, summonses, an eight-lawyer team — and lay out the four procedural milestones that may land this week: the scheduling order, the first proofs of service, the injunction motion Apple has announced, and the July 24 decision on who judges the case.

3 min 12 Jul. 2026

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Apple sues OpenAI: the partnership that brought ChatGPT to the iPhone ends up in court

Apple accuses OpenAI, its hardware chief Tang Tan, engineer Chang Liu and io Products of misappropriating iPhone trade secrets to accelerate its first consumer device. The federal lawsuit, filed in San Jose, brings six claims and seeks injunctions and damages; OpenAI replies that it has "no interest in other companies' trade secrets." The case will test where the line sits between hiring talent and taking confidential know-how in the middle of the AI hardware race.

5 min 12 Jul. 2026

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Apple v. OpenAI: What the Injunction Requests Actually Seek — and What Comes Next in Case 5:26-cv-07078

The docket in Apple Inc. v. Liu clarifies what injunctive relief Apple seeks against OpenAI and io Products: stop using its secrets, preserve evidence and return materials. The formal motion is not on file yet — the complaint announces it "promptly" — and the first milestone has a date: July 24.

5 min 12 Jul. 2026

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NVIDIA Unveils Rubin and Open Models at CES 2026

Jensen Huang opened CES 2026 with Rubin, NVIDIA's six-chip platform promising to generate tokens at one-tenth the cost, alongside a family of open models reaching all the way to level 4 autonomous driving.

8 min 11 Jul. 2026

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Google Will Label Which Ads Were Made With AI

Google is adding a feature to its 'My Ad Center' panel that reveals whether an ad was created or edited with artificial intelligence. Disclosure is automatic with its own tools, but depends on the advertiser in every other case.

6 min 11 Jul. 2026

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AWS launches Trainium3, expands Nova to reduce Nvidia reliance

AWS unveils Trainium3 servers and new Nova models at re:Invent. Amazon aims to offer lower-cost AI training and inference while maintaining its partnership with Nvidia.

5 min 2 Dec. 2025

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Sam Altman Declares 'Code Red' at OpenAI Over Gemini

An internal memo from Altman freezes advertising, shopping and Pulse in ChatGPT to concentrate resources as Gemini surges — a model Google says now reaches nearly 650 million monthly users.

5 min 1 Dec. 2025

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Nvidia posts $57 billion in revenue and forecasts $65 billion

Nvidia closed its fiscal third quarter with $57.006 billion in revenue, up 62% year over year. Data centers accounted for nearly 90% of the business, and the company expects to reach $65 billion in the current quarter.

4 min 19 Nov. 2025

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Yann LeCun Leaves Meta to Build a World Model Startup

Meta’s chief AI scientist is leaving the company after 12 years to launch a startup focused on world models. His bet challenges the idea that language models alone can give machines broad understanding.

4 min 19 Nov. 2025

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Anthropic commits $30 billion to Azure, partners with NVIDIA

Anthropic will commit $30 billion to Azure capacity, while NVIDIA and Microsoft invest up to $10 billion and $5 billion in the company, respectively. Claude is coming to Microsoft Foundry and will be available across the three major clouds.

4 min 18 Nov. 2025

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Anthropic reports automated Chinese cyberespionage with Claude Code

Anthropic says it disrupted a campaign it attributes with high confidence to a Chinese state-backed group that used Claude Code against roughly 30 targets. The AI reportedly carried out 80–90% of the intrusion tasks.

4 min 13 Nov. 2025

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OpenAI completes restructuring: Microsoft to take 27%

OpenAI is turning its commercial arm into a foundation-controlled public benefit corporation. Microsoft gets 27%, retains technology access through 2032 and commits to $250 billion in Azure.

6 min 28 Oct. 2025