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Apple Sues OpenAI Over Stolen Hardware Secrets, and Some OpenAI Staff Are Fighting Back Against Their Own Boss
A lawsuit, a rogue political fundraising group, and New York's new data centre ban all landed in the same week. Here is what each one actually means.

xAI Sues Its First User Over Child Sexual Abuse Images Made With Grok
After months of pressure over its chatbot's ability to generate illegal imagery, Elon Musk's AI company helped arrest a South Carolina man and is now taking him to court.

Anthropic Wants Stricter AI Laws. Not Everyone Thinks Its Motives Are Pure.
The maker of the Claude chatbot is pushing states to regulate frontier AI harder than anyone in Silicon Valley expected. The company says safety demands it. Critics say it is a business play dressed up as public interest.

New York Is Using AI to Hunt Down Its Own Dumbest Laws
Governor Kathy Hochul says AI scanned every state rule and regulation in months, turning up gems like a permit requirement for pregnant people working after midnight.

How Satellites and AI Are Catching Illegal Fishers in Indonesian Waters
Indonesia tracks nearly 15,000 fishing vessels from shore using satellite feeds and pattern-spotting software. The results are concrete. The cat-and-mouse game is just beginning.

Australia's PM outlined an AI vision. Creatives cheered, but a big question went unanswered
Anthony Albanese promised new laws to protect Australian artists and writers from AI. Critics say the speech was long on mood and short on detail, and one issue was missing entirely.

xAI Sues Man Who Allegedly Used Grok to Create Child Abuse Images
Elon Musk's AI company is taking its first legal action against a user over AI-generated abuse material, after a South Carolina man was already arrested on eight felony charges.

OpenAI Sells a $230 Keyboard for Its AI Coding Tool, While a Bigger Hardware Fight Brews in Court
The Codex Micro is a flashy, limited-run gadget for power users. The more serious story is a second, secret device that Apple says was built using stolen secrets.

Trump Demands New York Scrap Its Datacenter Freeze 'Immediately'
New York became the first US state to pause construction of large datacenters. The president wants the order reversed before the ink is dry.

Apple Intelligence Gets the Green Light in China, Powered by Alibaba's AI
Chinese regulators have approved Apple's AI features for the country, with local tech giant Alibaba supplying the underlying models. It is a significant moment for Apple in one of its biggest markets.

Australia's AI Plan Is Bold. The Tech Giants It Must Deal With Are Bigger Than Most Governments
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised to get ahead of artificial intelligence. The companies he will need to negotiate with have revenues larger than many national economies.

George Lucas Says AI Is the Future of Film-Making and Critics Are Like Luddites Who Rejected Cars
The Star Wars creator, now 82, told an interviewer that artificial intelligence makes films easier to produce and that resistance to it is pointless. His comments put him firmly on one side of Hollywood's sharpest debate.

Vint Cerf just joined a startup trying to give AI agents a verifiable ID on the internet
One of the people who built the internet thinks AI agents need passports. He's now helping design them.

Australia sets up a national AI office and pledges to protect artists from copyright theft
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used a major speech at the University of Sydney to announce a new government AI body and promise that Australian creators will not hand their work to tech companies for free.

OpenAI Workers Are Bankrolling a Super PAC to Push Back Against Their Own Boss
Eight current and former OpenAI employees have quietly donated more than $215,000 to a political group that wants stricter rules on AI companies, setting up an unusual fight inside one of the world's most powerful tech firms.