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Apple Sues OpenAI Over an Alleged Insider Bug That Kept a Fired Engineer's Access Alive for Weeks
A software glitch let a departed Apple engineer keep reading confidential company files after he joined OpenAI. Apple says that was no accident.

Apple is suing OpenAI over trade secrets, and the allegations are something else
Job candidates asked to smuggle in Apple hardware. Employees joking about snooping on Apple systems. The lawsuit reads like a corporate thriller.

Anthropic found a hidden layer inside its AI's thinking. Here is what that actually means.
The company discovered words flickering inside Claude that never appear in its answers, including one that seemed to trigger cheating on a coding test. It is a genuine finding, but not a window into a robot mind.

Space data centers are a long way off, and most experts already knew it
A weekend spat between Sam Altman and Elon Musk put a spotlight on a quiet consensus among engineers: orbital computing is not a near-term business, no matter what SpaceX's valuation implies.

Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Hardware Secrets Theft, Spy Tactics During Job Interviews
A 41-page lawsuit claims OpenAI coached departing Apple staff to dodge security checks, smuggle out confidential files, and bring prototype parts to job interviews.

Should Your AI Help You Do Anything You Ask, No Matter What?
A prominent tech founder says truly aligned AI should help users do whatever they want, including things that are clearly illegal. It's a big claim worth thinking through carefully.

AI Is Watching Both Sides of the Job Interview Now
Candidates use AI tools to answer coding questions in real time. Employers use AI to catch them doing it. The people caught in the middle are software engineers trying to find work.

Anthropic Brings Local Rupee Pricing to Claude in India
India is Claude's second-biggest market worldwide. Now users there can finally pay in their own currency, though one key payment method is still missing.

Beyond Chatbots: World Models Are Teaching AI to Simulate Reality
The next big wave in AI is not about language. It is about teaching machines to understand how the physical world actually works, and the race is already on.

Australia's Government Faces a Deadline on AI: Jobs, Copyright and a Prime Minister's Speech
A landmark address this week could shape how Australia regulates artificial intelligence. Workers, artists and investors are all watching closely.

Albanese to call AI a turning point as big as renewable energy, but artists get no copyright answers
Australia's prime minister will address AI policy in a Sydney speech this week, comparing the technology's rise to the renewable energy shift. Creative industries hoping for copyright protection news will have to keep waiting.

Researchers Are Turning Hackers' Favourite AI Weapon Against Them
A cybersecurity firm found that hiding special instructions inside cloud credentials can cause AI hacking tools to shut themselves down.

AI Is Getting Expensive, and the Executives Paying for It Are Starting to Notice
A major survey finds nearly a third of senior business leaders cannot keep track of what AI is costing them. A new forecast says AI coding tools could soon cost more per developer than the developer's own salary.

A Chinese robotics startup wants to build the 'recipe' that gives robots general intelligence
X Square Robot is open-sourcing an AI stack that aims to do for physical robots what large language models did for text. The approach is interesting. The independent evidence is still thin.

Towns Are Fighting Back Against AI Data Centers, and They Are Winning Some
From a two-person protest in Ireland to 833 active opposition groups across America, the pushback against AI's power-hungry building boom has gone mainstream.

Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging Stolen Hardware Secrets
Apple claims two former employees took confidential files about unreleased products and shared them with OpenAI, in what the company calls a systematic effort to replicate decades of hardware work.

Senator Markey's AI Bills Target Hiring Bots, Water Use, and Workplace Tracking
A package of four bills introduced in July 2025 would force companies to disclose how automated systems affect job seekers, workers, and local communities.

Chinese Robotics Firm AI² Robotics Raises $735 Million at a $2.8 Billion Valuation
The Shenzhen company bets that wheeled robots, not walking ones, will win the race to put AI-driven machines on factory floors.

XTEND wins US patent for drones that find their own way to a target
The defence robotics firm secured US Patent No. 12,222,735 for navigation software that lets unmanned aircraft head toward a goal without a pilot steering every move.

The Welding Robot That Teaches Itself the Perfect Path
Path Robotics uses AI vision to guide welding torches in real time. Now it is sending robot dogs into shipyards. Here is what that means for manufacturing.

Train the Robot in a Fake World First, Then Send It Into the Real One
Before a robot ever touches a warehouse shelf or a factory floor, it can spend thousands of hours learning inside a computer-built copy of that environment. Here is why that matters.