Two years ago they wired ChatGPT into the iPhone together. Now Apple is accusing OpenAI of stealing its playbook to build a rival device. Inside one of tech’s ugliest divorces.
A plain-English roundup of the week’s major quantum computing news — the White House summit, Quantinuum’s IPO, IonQ’s $1.08B deal, Willow’s error-correction milestone and more.
Gemini 3.5 Pro is reportedly targeting July 17 after months of delays — headlined by a 2M-token context window and an Ultra-tier “Deep Think” mode. What’s real and what’s TBD.
A long-buried Sony clause is back in the spotlight: don’t log in for three years and your digital games can vanish. The catch that comes with an all-digital future.
IonQ is spending $1.08B on a UK rival, PsiQuantum is getting $100M in federal money, and Washington is taking equity stakes. The quantum supply chain is being bought up.
Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0 Turbo, Seedance 2.5, Runway Gen-4.5 — the AI video field got crowded and cheap fast. Here’s which one to use for what, minus the marketing.
“Wasn’t it?” Jodie Foster’s jab at Brad Pitt’s F1 is the perfect distillation of Hollywood’s new anxiety — that the polished blockbuster now feels machine-made.
Days after the biggest IPO in history, SpaceX is spending $60B in stock to buy Cursor. It’s the largest startup acquisition ever — and a very Musk kind of vertical integration.
GPT-5.6 went public in three tiers. Sol is the coding flagship with a subagent “ultra” mode; Terra is priced to punch Claude Sonnet 5 in the mouth. What to actually use.
The AI boom is so big it has organized crime rings now. Thieves are hitting data-center supply chains for copper and gear — and shipping it to exactly where you’d guess.