Apple Sued OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft Tied to Its AI Device Push
Apple sued OpenAI in federal court on July 10, 2026, alleging that OpenAI, hardware chief Tang Tan, former Apple engineer…
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GPT-5.6 Sol Looks Like a Real Upgrade; Most Early Arguments Are About Routing, Defaults, and Rollout
GPT-5.6 appears to be a real step up over GPT-5.5 in OpenAI’s own materials, but that evidence is concentrated in…
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Alibaba Is Reportedly Banning Claude Code at Work From July 10
Alibaba is reportedly banning employee use of Anthropic’s Claude Code from July 10, 2026 and directing staff to use its…
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Anthropic Is Reportedly Working on a Custom AI Chip With Samsung
Anthropic has reportedly begun preliminary work on a custom AI chip and is discussing Samsung Foundry as a manufacturing partner,…
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Cloudflare Is Blocking Many AI Crawlers by Default on Ad-Supported Pages, Not Charging Them Automatically
Cloudflare is not automatically making AI companies pay publishers for content; starting September 15, 2026, it will default many ad-supported…
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Lumo Does Not Log Chats or Train on Them, and Saved History Is Zero-access Encrypted
Lumo is Proton’s privacy-first AI assistant, launched on July 23, 2025, and its defining pitch is simple: Proton says it…
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Arena Turned Its Chatbot Leaderboard Into a Paid AI Evaluations Business
Arena, formerly LMArena and best known for the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, is a venture-backed company that runs a crowdsourced AI…
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Foreign-run Pro-One Nation Facebook Groups Look More Like Ad Farms Than Propaganda Cells
Foreign-run pro-One Nation Facebook groups are best understood as an ad-arbitrage business: cheap partisan posts pull in a large, commercially…
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OpenAI Did Slow GPT-5.6, and the White House Now Looks Like a Gatekeeper
OpenAI did slow GPT-5.6: on June 26, 2026, it launched the model only to a small group of trusted partners…
