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  • Apple has initiated legal action against OpenAI, alleging the latter engaged in trade secret theft by employing former Apple engineers and utilizing Apple's hardware designs.
  • Meta faced significant backlash and subsequently removed an AI-driven feature from Instagram that allowed users to generate AI images of public accounts, highlighting growing concerns about AI ethics and privacy.
  • SK Hynix secured $26.5 billion in what is now the largest foreign initial public offering in US history, with significant pressure to establish new semiconductor fabrication plants within the United States.
  • Bluesky has officially appointed Toni Schneider as its permanent CEO, moving past her interim role.
  • The European Union is contemplating hefty fines for Meta, citing the allegedly addictive design of its flagship platforms, Facebook and Instagram, and signaling increased regulatory scrutiny on social media's impact on user behavior.

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  • No, Flock isn’t threatening people for debating surveillance 5 hours ago by Jay Peters
    News, Tech

    On Thursday, the Instagram account for a lecture series in Newport Beach, CA posted a photo of what appeared to be a cease and desist letter from the surveillance technology company Flock Safety. Flock has received significant backlash over its technology and work with law enforcement agencies, and this letter kicked off yet another wave of criticism against the company for allegedly trying to shut down discussions of its work. "WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED," the group, The Saturday Salon, wrote in the Instagram post , which has more than 3,000 likes. A separate post about the letter on Bluesky

  • Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts 5 hours ago by Jay Peters
    AI, Instagram, Meta, News, Tech

    Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The feature, as originally set up, meant that content from any public Instagram account could be used in AI creations without the account owner's permission. "Earlier this week, we announced that one way for people to generate images in Meta AI is by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts that they want to reference," Meta says in an update to a blog post about its new Muse Image AI model. "Our intent

  • The FCC is cracking down on DJI tech that dodged the foreign drone ban 6 hours ago by Sean Hollister
    Policy, Tech

    The Xtra Muse and the DJI Osmo Pocket 3. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Last year, we told you about Xtra , the company that lets DJI sneak its popular cameras into the US, and Skyrover, a brand seemingly selling DJI drones in disguise . They're just two of the many firms DJI is suspected of starting to skirt the United States' foreign drone ban . But it appears the FCC is finally doing something about "DJI front companies," as watcher Konrad Iturbe dubbed them last year . Today, the FCC is fining eight of them $25,000

  • Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets 7 hours ago by Jay Peters
    AI, Apple, News, OpenAI, Tech

    Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup's hardware plans. In its complaint , Apple says it uncovered "a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets by OpenAI employees who were formerly at Apple." In addition to OpenAI, the lawsuit also names IO Products - Jony Ive's hardware startup, which OpenAI bought in 2025 - along with two specific employees, Tang Tan (OpenAI's chief hardware officer) and Chang Liu (who joined OpenAI from Apple in January). An Apple spokesperson shared this statement with 9to5Mac : At Apple, our teams are constantly developing breakthrough

  • A decade later, Pokémon Go finally made good on its original promise 9 hours ago by Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Entertainment, Gaming, News, Nintendo, Pokemon

    When Niantic dropped the first Pokémon Go trailer in 2015, it was hard to grasp how a bunch of players could work together to catch a pokémon like Mewtwo. But this week at the game's 10th anniversary event in New York City, Pokémon Go showed the world how it's done. Almost 2,000 players (many of them Pokémon Go influencers) packed into Times Square on Thursday evening to participate in a special battle. It was cool to see Times Square briefly go dark before the billboards began lighting up, revealing an escaped Mewtwo Mega Evolving, and it was even wilder to


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