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Apple lawsuit against OpenAI says iCloud mess didn’t play a role

Apple lawsuit against OpenAI says iCloud mess didn't play a role | Image shows an iCloud icon on a blue-green background

One of the theories voiced about how a former Apple employee may have accessed confidential documents after leaving the company to join OpenAI has been dispelled by a court filing.

It has been suggested that access to the documents may have been inadvertent due to a seemingly messy iCloud arrangement for Apple employees – but the company says this is not the case …

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Jony Ive’s first OpenAI hardware device sounds rather like … a HomePad

Jony Ive's first OpenAI hardware device sounds like ... a HomePad | HomePod touch concept mockup

Jony Ive and Sam Altman have been teasing an AI hardware device for a long time now, and it’s increasingly looking like that tease was premature. We’re still not expecting to see a launch until some point next year.

OpenAI continues to be exceedingly vague about what form its first hardware device might take, but an interview yesterday seems to point to something rather like a HomePad

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Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI reassigned to new judge [U]

Update, July 26: Apple’s form has now been made public, confirming that the company declined magistrate judge jurisdiction and requested that the case be reassigned to a district judge. The original story follows below.

Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI has been reassigned to U.S. District Judge Edward Davila, replacing the magistrate judge initially assigned to the case. Here are the details.

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OpenAI’s hardware device may partly compete with AirPods Ultra – and lose

OpenAI's hardware device may partly compete with the upcoming AirPods Ultra | Low key image of a speaker with purple lighting and darkness hiding most of the form factor

Jony Ive and Sam Altman made a big promise when they teased the launch of a completely new concept in AI hardware more than a year ago.

The most recent report suggests that OpenAI may technically be delivering on this promise, but could end up at least partly competing with an upcoming AirPods model. If so, I can easily see AirPods Ultra proving the more popular choice …

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