Apple Tells European Commission It Will Hire Huxe AI Employees, License Tech
Summary
Apple tells the European Commission it will offer jobs to certain Huxe AI employees and take a non-exclusive license to the startup's intellectual property, a reverse acqui-hire disclosed June 9. Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM podcast developers, shut down May 21 and said it would delete user data. Apple did not say who got offers or its plans.
Key Points
- MacRumors first reports the Apple filing to the European Commission, according to TechCrunch.
- Huxe tells users on its website, "The team is moving on to new things, and we won't be continuing development of the product."
- Spotify rolls out AI-powered podcast generation features one day before Huxe announces its shutdown.