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The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI

The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI: Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring Apple hardware to interviews. Here are the complaint’s most eye-catching claims. Read More

Sam Altman's space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe: Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, "homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters." Read More

Investors send General Fusion soaring in debut as first publicly traded fusion company: General Fusion started trading on the Nasdaq following a reverse merger that saw high redemptions. Read More

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