Apple sues OpenAI, DeepMind pilots Gemini in Indian schools, Codex hits 7M

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Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets arstechnica.com

OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets.

The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI techcrunch.com

Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring Apple hardware to interviews. Here are the complaint’s most eye-catching claims.

The 6 wildest claims in Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI theverge.com

When Apple employees interviewed for jobs at OpenAI, the AI startup’s hardware head allegedly asked them to show up with something unusual: components they were working on and unreleased product samples. That’s according to a blockbuster lawsuit filed by Apple, which accuses OpenAI of stealing confidential documents, spying on hardware prototypes, and tricking one of […]

Empowering India’s next generation of innovators with ATL Saathi deepmind.google

Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool empowering Indian educators in robotics labs.

(AINews) Codex usage up >10x in 6 months to 7M users, +1M in the past ~day; did Codex overtake Claude Code?? latent.space

a quiet day lets us fact check some numbers against the sound of silence of Claude Code reporting…

Siri AI is already changing how I use my iPhone theverge.com

Apple’s long-promised AI Siri reaches testers today as iOS 27 opens its first public beta. Hands-on impressions after a month of use frame the release as a Snow Leopard-style refinement year, with the revamped assistant already reshaping day-to-day iPhone interactions rather than adding flashy new surface features.

What will be left for us to work on? normaltech.ai

The AI Snake Oil author’s ICML 2026 keynote tackles which tasks remain meaningful for people as models automate more cognitive work. The talk, now published in essay form, argues against sweeping displacement narratives and maps where human judgment still anchors economic and scientific activity.

Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B techcrunch.com

The Alibaba-backed video generator will spend the round expanding its world model and pushing into new geographies. The $2B-plus valuation puts PixVerse among the better-funded challengers to Runway, Kling and Sora as generative video shifts toward longer, physics-aware clips.

Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation techcrunch.com

The maker of the open Hermes agent models is in talks for at least $75 million led by Robot Ventures, with USV joining. The $1.5B mark would cement Nous as one of the few open-weight labs to reach unicorn status this cycle.

Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US techcrunch.com

India, Anthropic’s second-largest market after the US, is now getting Claude subscriptions billed in local currency. Localized pricing typically widens paid conversion by removing FX friction, and signals Anthropic is treating the market as a growth priority rather than an English-language spillover.

Waze is getting a bunch of new AI-powered features theverge.com

Google is embedding Gemini across four new Waze features, upgrading the 2024 conversational hazard-reporting flow and adding trip personalization. The move slots Waze into Google’s broader Gemini-everywhere push and sharpens its positioning against Apple Maps as navigation apps chase assistant-style interaction.

Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates techcrunch.com

Some of the new features are powered by Google’s Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the tech giant’s broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze to compete with rival services such as Apple Maps.

Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone” techcrunch.com

CPO Sachin Kansal details Uber’s financial-services ambitions, its fraying Waymo partnership, and a new AV Labs data operation feeding autonomous developers. He argues the company will resist becoming an everything-app, focusing AI features on concrete rider and driver workflows instead.

What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show technologyreview.com

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Anthropic—currently the world’s most valuable AI company, with a nearly $1 trillion valuation—has a reputation for publishing strange and heady research. It’s looking into whether AI models can feel pain, for example,…

Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe techcrunch.com

Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, “homeboy you’re the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters.”

Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI techcrunch.com

Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses.

Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse? techcrunch.com

What does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?

Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again techcrunch.com

They’re rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI’s defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money — potentially a lot more.

References

The Next Web — on xAI v OpenAI precedent thenextweb.com

In June 2026, a federal judge dismissed xAI’s trade secret claims against OpenAI with prejudice, ruling that the ‘passive receipt of information’ or routine inquiries about a candidate’s past work do not constitute misappropriation.

Daily Journal (legal trade press) dailyjournal.com

California courts typically reject the ‘inevitable disclosure’ doctrine, meaning Apple must prove specific acts of misconduct—such as the retention of devices or unauthorized file access—rather than just the hiring of former staff.

The Daily Upside — Bloomberg Intelligence read thedailyupside.com

Analysts from Bloomberg Intelligence predict that Apple may successfully secure early, targeted relief to isolate disputed material, forcing OpenAI into a ‘defensive crouch’ just as it prepares for an initial public offering.

MacRumors — io Products roadmap macrumors.com

Court filings indicate that the device is now unlikely to ship before February 2027… a trademark dispute with a hearing aid startup led OpenAI to abandon the ‘io’ name for its consumer-facing marketing.

Big Technology (Alex Kantrowitz) bigtechnology.com

Apple has a long history of aggressive litigation to stifle employee mobility… critics describe the suit as a ‘de facto non-compete’ aimed at freezing OpenAI’s hardware roadmap by intimidating the 400+ former Apple employees who have joined.

SCBC Law — Apple v. Rivos precedent scbc-law.org

In the Rivos case, Judge Edward Davila initially dismissed several claims, noting that ‘mere possession’ of confidential information does not equal misappropriation.

Common Sense Media — Youth AI Safety Institute risk assessment institute.commonsensemedia.org

Gemini’s youth versions are adult models with superficial safeguards layered on top; testing revealed the AI frequently bypasses its own filters to share material related to alcohol, drugs, and sexual content, and the Under 13 version’s lack of memory causes it to forget a user’s age during a session, leading to age-inappropriate advice.

Reddit r/edtech — science educator’s NotebookLM audit reddit.com

When users submitted science agency URLs that returned 404 errors, NotebookLM visually appeared to load the sources but instead generated responses drawn entirely from its general training data — a silent failure mode that undermines its primary value proposition as a grounded RAG tool.

IMPRI India — ATL evaluation review impriindia.com

Approximately 61% of surveyed schools reported major difficulties in the establishment phase; many labs suffer from defective or insufficient equipment, particularly in rural areas, and ATL activities are frequently limited to ‘free periods’ because they are not integrated into formal academic credit systems.

Times of India — Interview with DeepMind research scientist Stefania Druga timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The way young people are using AI is disappointing — they often use it as a homework solver rather than a creative partner, which she attributes to outdated educational frameworks that reward cut-and-dried answers.

Google AI for Developers — Gemini API changelog ai.google.dev

Gemini 3.5 Flash is positioned for the ‘agentic era’ with native Computer Use and toggleable ‘thinking levels’; early adopters have labeled it ‘extremely token hungry,’ with some estimates putting per-task cost roughly 30x higher than Gemini 1.5 Flash.

Chai ke Saath Charcha — regional-language AI in Indian classrooms chaikesaathcharcha.com

Current tools frequently fail to respect pedagogical frameworks like Bloom’s Taxonomy, often hallucinating culturally irrelevant examples — such as substituting ‘chai stalls’ for ‘coffee shops’ without changing the underlying Western business context.

uvik.net (Claude Code vs Cursor vs Copilot vs Codex 2026) uvik.net

Among developers with more than 10 years of experience, 46% now name Claude Code as their primary tool, compared to just 9% for GitHub Copilot… Claude Code has reached a $2.5 billion revenue run-rate, outperforming competitors on a per-user monetization basis.

codeongrass.com (heavy users limits/costs switching) codeongrass.com

Many heavy users on the $200/month Max plan report hitting weekly and session caps frequently… Some users have abandoned Claude Code after finding that Codex’s $20 tier offers more generous limits than Anthropic’s more expensive professional offerings.

builder.io (Codex vs Claude Code) builder.io

Codex + GPT-5.5 led the Terminal-Bench 2.1 with an 83.4% success rate, outperforming Claude Code’s 83.1%… Claude Code (Opus 4.8) leads in repository-level code quality, scoring 80.9% on SWE-bench Verified.

thehackernews.com (AI coding agents triggering alerts) thehackernews.com

Codex’s agentic skills—such as browser automation—often trigger endpoint security alerts by mimicking the behavior of human intruders, such as decrypting stored credentials.

Medium: ‘Claude Code vs Codex — I tested both for 6 months’ civillearning.medium.com

A single complex refactor in Claude Code can cost 10 times more in API credits than an equivalent session in Codex… the lack of traditional inline autocomplete remains a major point of dissent for developers who prefer moment-to-moment typing assistance over high-level agentic delegation.

uvik.net (AI coding assistant statistics) uvik.net

GitHub Copilot remains the market leader by volume, claiming 29% workplace adoption and over 26 million total users… Claude Code has captured 18% workplace usage in just over a year since its May 2025 launch.