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💥 OpenAI fires back at Apple

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🍎 Apple plans iPhone-Windows copy-paste

🇺🇸 US drafts ban on Chinese data gear

🏛️ White House says its AI framework is done

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• OpenAI is fighting back against Apple's lawsuit over stolen trade secrets, publishing chat messages it says prove Apple's own staff kept contacting former colleague Chang Liu for technical help after he left for OpenAI.
• The messages show Apple employees asking Liu for assessments and schematics, and adding him to a group chat where he pointed to internal folders before writing, "this is highly irregular, please remove me from this thread."
• OpenAI also says Apple's outside lawyer emailed the wrong person after confusing two Asian last names and falsely claimed a phone call with OpenAI's General Counsel, though none of this refutes the core theft accusations.

• Bending Spoons has agreed to buy the no-code workflow platform Airtable in an all-cash deal worth $1.285 billion in enterprise value, which puts Airtable's equity value at about $2.25 billion once its cash is counted.
• It's the Milan company's first purchase since its Nasdaq listing on July 1, 2026, and Bending Spoons plans to hold Airtable long-term, adding AI, rather than reselling it as private equity firms often do.
• Airtable, founded in 2013, counts over 500,000 organizations as customers, including 80% of the Fortune 100, and reached about $480 million in yearly recurring revenue, up more than 20% from a year earlier.

• Apple has agreed to build a feature that lets you copy something on your iPhone and paste it on a Windows 11 PC, syncing the two clipboards after a request from Microsoft.
• To make cross-device copy and paste work, Apple would give Microsoft broader access to the iPhone clipboard, which today only lets apps read it while running in the foreground.
• Apple called the work a "significant engineering effort" and doesn't expect it before late 2027, and it may limit the feature to European Union users to comply with the Digital Markets Act.

• The Trump administration is drafting a ban on Chinese-made hardware used in US data centers, aiming to keep Chinese technology out of the infrastructure behind the country's AI buildout, according to Reuters.
• The gear likely covered includes networking switches, servers, storage, and management chips, all treated as possible supply-chain weak points or paths for remote access back to Chinese vendors.
• The move follows a recent ban on Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters, and it faces hurdles like resellers and relabeled parts, plus higher costs since some equipment has few affordable non-Chinese options.

• The White House says it has finished a voluntary framework for checking the cybersecurity strengths of the most advanced AI models, and will meet with AI companies Tuesday to talk it through, a White House official told CNBC.
• Under the program, ordered by Trump on June 2, developers can give the government access to qualifying "covered frontier models" for up to 30 days before releasing them to other trusted partners, letting officials test for cyberattack risks.
• Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are expected to attend, while the benchmark and the threshold deciding which models get reviewed stay classified, and the order bars the effort from becoming a mandatory federal licensing or preclearance rule.

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