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Apple Says It Found No Trace of OpenAI's Files on Its Returning Engineer
Apple's new court filing says OpenAI raised its file-theft claim without notice, that Apple's search turned up nothing, and that OpenAI went to the judge instead of answering Apple's follow-up questions.
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Apple Invites Media to an October 28 Launch for Touchscreen MacBook Pros
Apple is bringing press to Los Angeles on October 28 for an all-day hands-on with touchscreen MacBooks, M6 Macs and a new iPad mini, per Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
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Apple and Nvidia Each Gave $25M to Trump's White House Ballroom
A Washington Post donor list shows Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta put a combined $92 million toward the project.
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Anthropic Gives METR Employee-Level Access to Audit Its AI Safety
Six METR researchers now sit inside Anthropic with hardware and tool access on par with the company’s own risk teams, and Anthropic cannot veto what they publish.
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YouTube Music Starts Labeling Songs Made Mostly With AI
An "AI" tag now appears on the YouTube Music player for tracks where generative AI did most of the work, and the labels are headed to the main YouTube app too.
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WhatsApp Now Lets People Without an Account Join Calls From a Browser
WhatsApp's new guest calling lets anyone join a voice or video call from a link in a web browser, no WhatsApp account required.
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Ubisoft Will Close Trials Studio RedLynx and Cut 70 Jobs in Singapore
Ubisoft is proposing to shut Finnish Trials maker RedLynx (up to 52 jobs) and has cut 70 roles at Ubisoft Singapore, home of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced.
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Square Launches a $1,999 Restaurant Kiosk You Can Talk To
Square's new $1,999 restaurant kiosk pairs a 21.5-inch touchscreen with a menu-aware voice AI for quick-service ordering.
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Sony's $400 ECM-W5 Wireless Mic Kit Records 32-Bit Float Straight Into Its Cameras
Sony's new two-transmitter wireless mic kit costs $399.99, ships in November, and sends 32-bit float audio digitally into Alpha cameras through the hot shoe, with 64GB of backup recording on each transmitter.
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Palo Alto Patches a PAN-OS RCE Zero-Day Already Used in Attacks
CVE-2026-0322 lets an authenticated attacker with management-interface access run root code on PA-Series, VM-Series, and Panorama boxes, and CISA wants federal agencies fixed by October 17.
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OpenAI's Compute Chief Sachin Katti Is Leaving, and an Ex-xAI Exec Takes Over
Katti, who ran OpenAI's data center and compute push for about a year, leaves November 15 and will stay on as an advisor. Uday Ruddarraju, formerly of xAI, now runs the whole compute organization.
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OpenAI Says an Employee Who Went Back to Apple Took Over 100 Files on Its Unreleased Device
In a court filing in Apple's trade secrets suit, OpenAI says a worker who came from Apple and returned after six months sent device images, supplier data, and engineering files to personal accounts.
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OpenAI Agrees Not to Use Alleged Apple Trade Secrets While the Suit Plays Out
After a San Jose judge said he was highly likely to grant Apple a preliminary injunction, OpenAI volunteered not to use the secrets Apple says were stolen and to image 14 employees' devices.
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Netflix Cuts About 1,000 Jobs, Roughly 6% of Staff
Netflix is cutting about 1,000 jobs, its biggest layoff round since 2022, with most cuts in product, tech, legal, and HR.
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Microsoft Open-Sources a Tool That Sharpens Weather Forecasts Two to Six Weeks Out
Microsoft's Probabilistic Bias Correction, published in Nature today, uses machine learning to fix systematic errors in existing forecast models and runs on ordinary CPUs.