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OpenAI calls out Apple’s ‘careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit’ in latest blog post
OpenAI has published a blog post pushing back against a lawsuit filed by Apple, describing the legal action as a “careless, aggressive and oddly personal” attempt to stifle competition. The dispute centres on Apple’s objection to OpenAI’s use of the name “io” for a hardware venture developed with former Apple design chief Jony Ive, with…
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Tokyo’s TIFFCOM 2026 Expands IP Market, Adds AI and Anime Conferences
Tokyo’s TIFFCOM content market will expand its Tokyo IP Market: Adaptation & Remake for its 2026 edition and add new conference sessions on artificial intelligence and anime. The market, one of Asia’s leading content trading events, is jointly organised by two Japanese government ministries and industry body Unijapan, and runs alongside the Tokyo International Film…
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Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges
Amazon and Google have both raised their capital expenditure forecasts for 2026, underlining how the AI boom continues to outstrip the enormous sums cloud providers are already investing in datacentre capacity. Alongside Microsoft, the two hyperscalers are collectively pouring close to $600 billion into infrastructure this year, driven by surging demand for the computing power…
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Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out
AI infrastructure firm Runware has launched the Sonic Inference Pod, a modular, transportable data centre designed to sit alongside the vast facilities being built by hyperscalers such as OpenAI. The company argues that distributed compute positioned closer to end users, rather than a handful of giant fixed sites, will ultimately win out, offering faster and…
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos Are Teaming to Save Endangered Species With $200M Initiative
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos have launched the Phoenix Species Project, a $200 million conservation initiative aimed at pulling 100 critically endangered species back from the brink of extinction. Described as one of the largest philanthropic efforts ever dedicated solely to species recovery, the project reflects DiCaprio’s decade-long environmental campaigning since his 2016 Oscar acceptance…
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Sharon Osbourne says Ozzfest 2027 announcement is coming “soon” and that Ozzy “loved the idea” of AI avatar: “It’s not as if I’m using him to sell fucking weedkiller or beer”
Sharon Osbourne has said an official announcement about the revived Ozzfest is coming “soon”, with next year’s edition set to return to Birmingham’s Villa Park, the venue that hosted Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s final live performances shortly before his death last summer. In a new Metal Hammer interview, she also again defended plans for…
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Trump overhaul could gut Head Start preschool standards, leaving states to set the rules
President Donald Trump’s administration is planning a dramatic overhaul of Head Start that would gut its quality standards, upending the hallmarks of the early education program for impoverished children, two people familiar with the deliberations said.
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OpenAI publishes messages disputing Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit claims
OpenAI has published a blog post publicly rebutting Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit, escalating the dispute into the court of public opinion by releasing iMessage and email exchanges it says undermine Apple’s account. Titled “Apple is getting this wrong,” the post describes Apple’s legal action as “careless, aggressive, and oddly personal” and argues that Apple’s request…
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Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So
ESPN’s use of a new “AI tells detection” tool during its broadcast of the 2026 World Series of Poker Main Event has sparked debate within the poker community. The overlay, which displays live metrics on players’ movements alongside a “hand strength model” predicting what type of hand they might hold, raises questions about whether it…
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British AI chip start-up founded by 25-year-old sixth form dropout valued at £2.5billion
A British start-up developing artificial intelligence chips has been valued at £2.5 billion, despite being founded by a 25-year-old entrepreneur who left school before completing his A-levels. The valuation underlines the intense investor appetite for firms building specialist hardware for AI applications, and highlights how young, non-traditional founders are increasingly able to build significant technology…