Yelp partners with OpenAI to bring real-time local reviews and business data directly into ChatGPT, a bold distribution bet that echoes — and risks repeating — the company's complicated and ultimately adversarial history with Google.
Apple sends legal preservation letters to 40 former employees now at OpenAI, escalating its trade secret lawsuit that accuses the AI company of orchestrating a coordinated theft of confidential hardware and product development secrets, with key former Apple executives now holding senior roles at OpenAI, which denies all allegations.
Chinese startup Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is dominating global AI benchmarks across six of seven frontend domains, outperforming giants like OpenAI and Anthropic, but the achievement is overshadowed by serious accusations that Moonshot used over 16 million fraudulent exchanges with Anthropic's Claude to illegally distill its model's capabilities.
Apple sues OpenAI in federal court, accusing the AI company of orchestrating corporate espionage through senior leadership, including a former 24-year Apple veteran, allegedly stealing trade secrets, downloading confidential documents, and coaching employees to evade security protocols.
Apple sues OpenAI in federal court, alleging former employees Tang Tan and Chang Liu systematically stole trade secrets, smuggled hardware, and exfiltrated confidential data to fuel OpenAI's hardware ambitions, demanding destruction of stolen information and damages that could derail OpenAI's push into smart glasses, wearable pendants, and camera-equipped earbuds.
OpenAI faces serious sanctions after allegedly lying for two years about its ability to search ChatGPT logs in a major copyright lawsuit, with a re-deposed privacy engineer revealing the company had already conducted searches of 78 million conversations before litigation began, directly contradicting its claims that such searches were technically infeasible.
Midjourney strikes back at Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros in a major copyright battle, demanding the Hollywood giants reveal their own internal AI use, arguing the studios may be guilty of the same copyright-infringing conduct they're accusing Midjourney of.
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known AI distillation attack in history, using 28.8 million exchanges across 25,000 fraudulent accounts to illicitly steal its AI capabilities, and is now urging the U.S. Senate to take coordinated action against the threat.
Cloudflare and beehiiv are teaming up to give 135,000 independent publishers a simple dashboard toggle to block or allow AI crawlers from accessing their content, offering real-time visibility into which bots are knocking and how much referral traffic they return.
AWS WAF launches a groundbreaking AI traffic monetization tool that lets website owners charge AI bots for content access directly at the network edge, as AI bot traffic surges past 50% of web traffic — up over 300% year-over-year — with payments collected in stablecoins via Coinbase's x402 Facilitator at no extra cost beyond standard AWS WAF pricing.