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Apple Sues OpenAI, Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan Over Alleged Hardware Trade Secret Theft

Apple filed suit in San Jose federal court accusing OpenAI of systematically stealing iPhone-related hardware trade secrets through ex-Apple employees, seeking an injunction and damages.

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Open-Source Bot Automates LinkedIn Job Applications End to End, Promising 100+ Submissions in Under an Hour
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Baidu Open-Sources Unlimited-OCR, a 3B Model That Parses 100-Page PDFs in a Single Pass
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Apple's Trade-Secret Suit Against OpenAI Notably Omits Jony Ive, Central Figure in Its Hardware Push
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Apify Releases Open-Source 'Agent Skills' to Give AI Coding Assistants Native Web-Scraping Powers
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Uber and Waymo Clash Over Washington, D.C. Robotaxi Bill Proposing Steep Fees and Mileage Tax
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Moonshot AI Halts New Kimi Subscriptions as Demand for K3 Model Pushes Compute to Its Limits
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OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6 and Integrates Codex Into ChatGPT

OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 and brought Codex directly into ChatGPT, with a desktop app that switches between Quick Chat, Codex and ChatGPT Work modes.

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Google Advances Gemma 4 for On-Device Multimodal and Agentic Use

Google pushed Gemma 4 for fast multimodal and agentic operation on offline devices, reporting a 5x speedup for single-A10G inference in a Hugging Face challenge. GPT-5.6 (Luna/Terra/Sol) advanced on both performance and cost, while Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 reached ninth place on Code Arena, updating the cost-efficiency frontier.

Alibaba Tongyi Unveils Wan-Streamer Real-Time Omnimodal Model

Alibaba Tongyi introduced Wan-Streamer, a real-time bidirectional omnimodal model that synchronizes audio and video output at roughly 550ms latency. It is part of a broader trend toward low-latency interactive generation, alongside models such as Vidu S1, moving real-time omnimodal generation toward practical use.

Creators Compare GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 on Animation Generation

Higgsfield AI published multiple side-by-side comparisons of GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 across styles including samurai, cartoon, action, paper-cut and monster battles using the Seedance 2.0 pipeline. Creators generally rated Fable 5 ahead on aesthetics, logical consistency and detail, positioning Sol as the more cost-efficient option.

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TTS Arena Adds Voice Styles as ElevenLabs and Cohere Expand Audio Tools

TTS Arena added Voice Styles with tone, emotion, age and accent control. ElevenLabs supplied an AI voice agent to Greece's Alpha Bank, while Cohere demonstrated local Arabic transcription running on a Mac, extending the shift toward on-device and localized audio processing.

HeyGen, Perplexity Computer and Video Tools Add Features

HeyGen announced a Figma-to-video integration and is supplying avatar technology to Telemundo. Perplexity Computer added the Grok 4.5 orchestrator and credit analysis features. On video, Vidu S1 offers real-time interactive generation, Pika added VFX skills, and Google Flow's Omni Flash added multi-shot support.

Kling AI NEXTGEN Awards Held in Seoul as ICML 2026 Opens

The Kling AI NEXTGEN Awards took place in Seoul, drawing more than 12,700 submissions. ICML 2026 held its first day of workshops. Chinese image and video models including Seedream 5.0 Pro (fourth overall on Image Arena), Seedance 2.0, Kling, Wan and Vidu continued to rank highly and see wide adoption in production work.