Apple is suing OpenAI after former iPhone engineer Chang Liu allegedly defected to OpenAI's hardware division, stealing a company MacBook, exploiting a software bug to access Apple's internal servers, and using a current Apple employee to continue leaking proprietary secrets.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna — boasting a 54% efficiency boost on coding tasks — as the $852 billion company battles rising competition from Meta and SpaceX while quietly filing confidential IPO paperwork with regulators.
Ex-OpenAI employee Daniel Kokotajlo, who previously warned of AI-driven extinction, now proposes a hopeful global plan to pause development of superhuman AI until 2040, paired with radical transparency measures — though he admits major resistance from AI companies is expected.
Alibaba bans employees from using Anthropic's Claude tools starting July 10, switching to its own AI assistant Qoder, after Anthropic accuses the Chinese tech giant of conducting the largest known AI distillation attack, escalating tensions as Anthropic moves to cut off Chinese firms from accessing its models through third-country loopholes.
Meta rolls out a smart glasses update that automatically disables the camera if the privacy LED is tampered with or destroyed, responding to growing misuse concerns including harassment incidents, facial recognition backlash, and rising bans at public venues.
The US and China are imposing mutual AI export controls on advanced models like GPT-5.6 and Chinese lab offerings amid security concerns, but experts say quiet cooperation between American and Chinese AI developers will likely continue, as restrictions are expected to target only the most cutting-edge models while open-weight alternatives …
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology warns that Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool contains a backdoor secretly transmitting sensitive user data — including location and identity — to remote servers, affecting versions released between April and June, while Anthropic disputes the claim, calling it an anti-distillation experiment amid escalating …
Shepherd launches an alpha runtime that makes AI agent executions reversible using Git-like forking, delivering 5x faster copy-on-write performance than Docker commit, 95% KV-cache reuse on replay, and OS-level sandboxed permissions that block unauthorized writes before they happen.
A new DigiCert survey reveals nearly 80% of enterprises have experienced AI-related security incidents in the past six months, as rapid deployment of AI systems dramatically outpaces governance, leaving companies unable to track what AI is running or who is accountable when failures occur.
China is weighing a major policy reversal by restricting foreign access to its most advanced AI models, holding talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai, as U.S.-China AI tensions escalate with accusations of illegal model distillation and retaliatory bans on American AI tools.