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Apple Alleges Former Employee Used Confidential Technology at OpenAI
Apple has submitted what it describes as “shocking evidence” in its lawsuit against OpenAI, intensifying allegations that a former employee transferred confidential information to his new employer.
By Mark Lim 12 days ago in 01
The War You Never See
Zero In Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem , there is a quiet but devastating setup: the sophon destroys no hardware, kills no one. It does only one thing: interfere with humanity's experiments observing the microscopic world.
By Jin12 days ago in 01
Why Your 5GHz Computer Still Spins the Wait Cursor
1985. A Commodore 64 runs at 1 MHz, with a clock cycle of 1000 nanoseconds. When it fetches data from memory, it takes about 200 nanoseconds. In that 200‑nanosecond wait, the CPU could have executed 0.2 instructions. So each wait costs it one‑fifth of an instruction.
By Jin12 days ago in 01
AI Enters the Danger Zone as the US-China Race Moves Toward Confrontation
Artificial intelligence is no longer simply a promising technology sector. It has become a central pillar of economic, military and sovereign power for the world’s major powers.
By Sahby Mehalla13 days ago in 01
What Happened When AI Was Let Loose on a 350‑Year‑Old Math Problem
Late at night. Tianyi Peng refreshed his monitoring dashboard. Dozens of green nodes lit up across a vast dependency graph. Each node was a theorem the Lean proof assistant had just verified. Three days earlier, the count had been zero. Now nearly thirty thousand nodes glowed in a solid patch.
By Jin13 days ago in 01
The $100 Line of Code
I. The Receipt at 3 AM The lights on the twenty‑third floor of a Hangzhou office building were still on at three in the morning.
By Jin13 days ago in 01
Apple September 9 Event 2026: iPhone 18 Pro, Foldable iPhone and Everything Expected
Apple September 9 Event 2026: iPhone 18 Pro, Foldable iPhone and Everything Expected Apple's biggest event of 2026 is almost here. The company has officially announced a special event called “Surprise and Shine,” scheduled for September 9, 2026, at 10 a.m. Pacific Time . Apple has confirmed the event date and livestream, but as usual, it has not officially revealed which products will be announced.
By parwinder singh13 days ago in 01
The $70 Billion Bet: Why ByteDance Is Turning Itself Into a Data‑Center Empire
On September 3, 2026, Yicai reported that ByteDance had secured a $29.6 billion offshore syndicated loan. The initial target was $20 billion. Subscriptions surged past $30 billion, pushing the final size to $29.6 billion. The interest rate is SOFR plus 68 basis points, 17 basis points lower than the 85 bps on its $10.8 billion loan in 2024. Syndicate members and final allocations are still being confirmed. The agreement has not been formally signed.
By Jin14 days ago in 01
The Prototype That Had to Unlearn Everything
On December 1, 2025, ByteDance’s Doubao AI assistant and ZTE jointly released an engineering prototype – the Nubia M153 – running a technical preview of the Doubao Phone Assistant. The official price was 3,499 yuan. All 30,000 units sold out quickly, and on secondary markets the price was bid up to tens of thousands of yuan.
By Jin14 days ago in 01
The Living Room Coup
The black box that has squatted on living room TV cabinets for more than two decades finally has a replacement on the way. In early September 2026, China Broadcasting Network (CBN) published a centralized procurement notice for 8.18 million adapters with a budget of nearly 490 million yuan. This is CBN's first nationwide tender aimed directly at replacing the traditional set‑top box.
By Jin14 days ago in 01
THE $2,500 COMPROMISE
There are fewer than two weeks to go until 1:00 a.m. on September 10. The lawns at Apple Park have already been mowed three times. Security barriers are going up around the Steve Jobs Theater. Two extra cleaning shifts have been added to the campus schedule. A note beside the coffee machines in the cafeteria reads, "Extended hours until 2 a.m. starting Wednesday." The staff who go through this every September are now in that peculiar state: everything is ready, yet something still doesn't feel quite ready.
By Jin14 days ago in 01
The "AGI" That Isn't
GPT‑6 Astra Is Here. The Claim of an "AGI Era" Doesn't Hold Up. OpenAI released GPT‑6 Astra on Friday Beijing time. Two sentences in the official announcement deserve to be read separately.
By Jin14 days ago in 01