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The Wall Street Journal reported September 14 that OpenAI acquired the Los Altos company founded in 2019 by ex-Apple engineers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, who led the team behind Apple's Portrait Mode (TechCrunch). Glass trains neural networks on individual camera systems to improve images at capture time rather than editing afterward, and had raised about $30 million. Follows the $6.5 billion io Products deal in May 2025 and dozens of Apple hires.
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Apple filed a 41-page complaint July 10 in the Northern District of California against OpenAI, its hardware subsidiary io Products, Chief Hardware Officer (ex-Apple VP) Tang Tan, and former engineer Chang Liu, alleging systematic theft of on-device AI and silicon trade secrets...
OpenAI posted first benchmark results for Jalapeño, its Broadcom co-developed inference ASIC, claiming 1.5x to 1.9x more throughput per kilowatt and 1.7x to 3.6x lower end-to-end latency than Nvidia GB200 and GB300 rack systems, measured on the SemiAnalysis InferenceX suite. T...
In an amended filing on August 31, Apple says counsel for former employee Chang Liu handed over his old work laptop, and forensic analysis showed a confidential Apple circuit schematic simulated in LTspice in March plus a tool sharing a name with an internal Apple engineering...
$800 million in API tokens for ~2% equity across 400 startups. Read that number again. TechCrunch reports Sam Altman made the offer at a closed-door YC event on May 20. Every startup in YC's Spring 2026 batch gets $2 million in OpenAI API tokens via uncapped SAFEs. The total c...
You noticed the Mac mini shortage. Here's what caused it. The Information reported, via Cult of Mac, that OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of M5 Pro and M6 Mac minis plus M5 Max and Ultra Mac Studios over the past several months, running reinforcement learning and comput...
The Trump administration filed a brief September 1 in Manhattan federal court supporting OpenAI against the New York Times and other newspapers, arguing that "training of LLMs on written works is exceedingly transformative" and that the United States has a strong interest in t...
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