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Apple has filed suit against OpenAI, alleging the artificial intelligence company made off with proprietary trade secrets. The lawsuit, filed in two thousand twenty six, marks a striking turn in what had been a high-profile partnership — one that put ChatGPT directly inside Apple devices. The legal battle raises hard questions about what happens when the giants of Silicon Valley stop cooperating and start competing.
On a very different front, Meta has quietly pulled a feature called Muse Image after it became clear users could generate AI likenesses of any public Instagram account simply by dropping in an at-mention. The capability amounted to an open door for deepfakes, and Meta shut it without much fanfare. It's a reminder that these tools often ship before anyone has fully thought through what they make possible.
And in a story that blends archaeology with artificial intelligence, researchers have used AI to reconstruct the final moments of a Pompeii victim found clutching a mortar — bringing startling visual detail to a death frozen nearly two thousand years ago. It's a genuinely moving use of the technology, and a useful counterweight to the week's more contentious AI headlines.
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