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Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a pattern of trade secret theft by former Apple employees who now work at the AI company. The complaint names IO Products, Jony Ive's hardware startup that OpenAI acquired, and raises serious questions about what crossed the line when that talent moved over.
From one tech giant to another — AMD is making a quiet but significant retreat in its hardware lineup, swapping high-bandwidth memory for LPDDR five x in its Versal Premium chips. That shift represents roughly a sixty-five percent cut in memory bandwidth, and the reason is blunt: the AI boom has essentially consumed the global supply of the good stuff, leaving AMD to make do.
And in New York City, Mayor Mamdani is bringing back consumer protections that the federal government walked away from. His new click-to-cancel rule requires businesses to make it just as easy to end a subscription as it was to start one — a revival of an FTC proposal that was shelved last year and a reminder that cities can move when Washington won't.
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