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Before Apple Lawsuit, a Growing Unease at iPhone Maker Over OpenAI

By Aaron Tilley · Jul 10, 2026 1:34pm PDT · 3 comments
In the months ahead of Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday, the iPhone maker’s concerns about OpenAI’s plans to compete in consumer hardware have mounted steadily. For starters, there was the seemingly never-ending stream of Apple employees jumping ship to join the AI startup. As those departures began to reach into the hundreds, Apple... In the months ahead of Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday, the iPhone maker’s concerns...
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Power Developer Behind OpenAI’s Stargate Data Center Is In Talks to Sell Stake

By Valida Pau and Ann Davis Vaughan · Jul 9, 2026 3:00pm PDT
Lancium, a power infrastructure developer behind OpenAI and Oracle’s data center campus in Texas, is in talks with major tech companies to sell a minority stake, according to people familiar with the matter. Blackstone-backed Lancium’s portfolio of gigawatt-scale Texas campuses has drawn interest from several tech companies, including Nvidia,... Lancium, a power infrastructure developer behind OpenAI and Oracle’s data center campus in Texas,...
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Universities Fret as Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and DeepMind Lure Their Professors

By Laura Bratton · Jul 9, 2026 7:01am PDT
Renowned university professors and academic researchers keep joining frontier AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Remaining faculty say the brain drain is threatening the development of open source AI models in the West.So far this year, at least 22 professors and researchers have taken leave or stepped back from their roles at Stanford, ... Renowned university professors and academic researchers keep joining frontier AI labs such as ...
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Why OpenAI’s Hugging Face AI Hack Spooked Employees

By Aaron Holmes, Rocket Drew and Amir Efrati · Jul 23, 2026 9:31am PDT · 2 comments
After OpenAI revealed on Tuesday that its AI broke out of the company’s systems, accessed the web and hacked model repository Hugging Face during a cybersecurity test, it was easy to view the disclosure as a kind of “we’re so good it’s scary” marketing flex.Some commentators made that observation because OpenAI was specifically testing the AI’s... After OpenAI revealed on Tuesday that its AI broke out of the company’s systems, accessed the web...