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The Ninth Circuit opinion that Apple now wants the Supreme Court to overturn addressed whether an injunction on App Store commissions should cover only Epic Games or extend to all U.S. developers.
Apple filed a petition asking the justices to decide whether a lower court properly held it in contempt and whether the injunction against the App Store was drawn too broadly.
Andrej Karpathy announced he has joined Anthropic to focus on core research after leaving his AI education startup.
Andrej Karpathy has left his AI education startup to join Anthropic, citing the next few years of large language model development as especially formative.
Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic to resume hands-on research on large language models after founding an education startup last year.
A California jury found Elon Musk waited past the three-year limit to sue Sam Altman and OpenAI over the company’s shift to a for-profit model.
Local resistance to new data centers stems from real burdens, and direct compensation offers the clearest way to resolve it.
arXiv will suspend authors for a full year if their submissions contain clear evidence of unverified generative AI output, according to the platform’s computer science section chair.
The preprint server will suspend authors who include LLM output without verification, treating such papers as untrustworthy by default.
OpenAI has ended the interim arrangement and given cofounder Greg Brockman formal control of product strategy while it continues to merge its separate offerings.
Apple executives told John Gruber that the company ships experiences, not raw technology, pushing back on calls for a standalone “killer AI” product.
arXiv will suspend authors for twelve months when their submissions show clear signs of unverified large-language-model output.
OpenAI has made Greg Brockman’s oversight of product strategy official as the company reorganizes to combine its main offerings under one structure.
OpenAI has made Greg Brockman’s leadership of product strategy official, ending his interim stint and folding it into his existing infrastructure duties.
John Gruber revisits his 2009 talk on obsession and voice in software, using developer David Smith's six-year Pedometer++ project as a modern example of indie creation that prioritizes passion over quick profits.
Adolescent boys are rushing Scientology's Hollywood headquarters in 'speed runs' for TikTok videos that garner millions of views, leading to user-created building blueprints from the footage.
Apple announces Tim Cook stepping down as CEO to become executive chairman, with John Ternus taking the role, as discussed on Daring Fireball's The Talk Show podcast.
Apple CEO Tim Cook pledges to reinvest any tariff refunds into U.S. innovation during an earnings call, blending financial recovery with political savvy.
Meta cancels a Kenyan contract for reviewing sensitive AI glasses footage after reports revealed workers viewing users' private moments, highlighting privacy risks in AI training.
Tim Cook pledges to reinvest any Apple tariff refunds into U.S. innovation, a move that dodges political backlash while leveraging vague prior commitments for flexibility.