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Today in brief.
Apple sues OpenAI over stolen trade secrets
Apple filed suit accusing OpenAI and two ex-Apple employees of systemically stealing trade secrets to build competing AI hardware - and Apple says the scheme ran 'at every level.'
🤖 AI
Grok 4.5 becomes the orchestrator of choice inside Perplexity's Computer
A day after launch, Grok 4.5 already tops Perplexity's own orchestrator benchmark (WANDR) and is rolling out as an available orchestrator model for paying Computer users.
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🤖 AI
GPT-5.6 Sol's real-time Blender build goes viral, and OpenAI adds a health-focused model
A day after GPT-5.6 shipped, the story moved from 'it launched' to 'look what it can actually do' - a live, unsped-up 750 tokens/sec Blender build, plus OpenAI adding a dedicated health-intelligence variant (Luna) and hardening its bio-safety program.
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🎬 Media
Meta pulls its new Instagram AI feature after backlash
Meta yanked a newly launched Instagram AI feature within days of release after users found it could generate deepfake-style images of public accounts without consent.
💼 Business
Two fresh AI raises land: a $300M quantum bet and a $60M story-world startup
Oratomic closed a $300M Series A for quantum computing - one of the sector's largest early rounds - while Kaon AI raised $60M for personalized, generative story-world products.
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