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A judge has ruled that Apple will gain expedited access to OpenAI's hiring materials in a trade secrets lawsuit. OpenAI must turn over documents associated with interviews of former Apple employees, including interview checklists and technical presentations.

Flox Intelligence is developing an AI system to keep wildlife away from trains, airports, and roads. The system uses edge devices to process data on-site and emits species-appropriate sounds to scare animals away. With about 150 devices already deployed, the company aims to expand its reach and explore new use cases beyond wildlife deterrence.

Meta extends Private Processing to AI glasses using confidential virtual machines and Trusted Execution Environment for sensitive AI workloads, ensuring user data privacy and security.

OpenAI alleges a former employee took over 100 confidential files, including unreleased device images and supplier information, and presented them to Apple leadership. This incident is part of a larger legal battle between Apple and OpenAI over trade secrets.

Anthropic's research found 'signs of life for AI worms' that could colonize household devices. Experts say the threat is realistic and deserves immediate action, as smaller AI models improve and can run on consumer-grade hardware.

Liquid Clustering outperforms on latency for point lookups, range scans, and large aggregations, and should be the default for teams with diverse or evolving workloads. ZOrdering performs better for stable, highly selective multicolumn predicate workloads.

Hillel Wayne discusses how formal methods principles help software engineers uncover critical architectural bugs early. He shares practical mental models like 'adversarial non-determinism' to reason about concurrency, edge cases, and distributed system failures without needing complex mathematical tools.

Shipt's Kit Platform is built using three composable entities: items, shopping lists, and kits. The platform uses Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to model these entities and their relationships. It also features store-aware resolution, kit-type compliance rules, and edit-safety guards to ensure a seamless customer experience.

Cloudflare's newly acquired Vite+ has reached version 1.0, offering a unified JavaScript toolchain with GitLab CI support, hooks, and tsup migration. The release concentrates on CI, migration, diagnostics, and ecosystem compatibility, with over 2,600 public repositories already depending on the package.

This article discusses a new approach to using icons in web UIs, leveraging CSS to insert and tweak icons without modifying HTML. It explores the benefits and limitations of this method, including improved flexibility, maintainability, and performance. The article also delves into the technical details of implementing this approach, including the use of CSS custom properties, pseudo-elements, and style queries.

Google's Antigravity SDK adds local model support, enabling developers to build and execute agentic workflows directly on their machines while retaining flexibility to mix in cloud-based models. This approach gives developers greater control over data privacy, inference costs, and computational workload distribution.

Ricursive Intelligence founders believe AI-designed chips can help solve the compute crisis by making chips more efficient, using bandwidth and resources more effectively, and enabling custom chips for various applications.

Gudea, a startup, uses AI to help organizations prevent social media crises by tracking how stories and rumors spread online. It analyzes behavior, relationships, and pathways of information across 500+ websites and platforms, providing context behind conversation growth. Gudea aims to expand its customer base and technology, including geolocation for narratives and giving customers access to its analysis tools.

Zenzap, an AI-powered chat app, has raised $44M to replace WhatsApp in the workplace. It offers features like task management, calendar integration, and AI-powered voice chat. The app is designed for a wide range of businesses and has clients like FedEx and Starbucks.

Floqer's autonomous customer knowledge platform uses AI agents to research sales prospects, automating the process of finding potential customers and updating customer records. The platform can enrich accounts using over 100 third-party data sources and continuously monitors the web for changes, allowing sales teams to focus on high-value tasks. Floqer plans to open-source its technology in early 2027.

Colossal Biosciences has announced a new AI platform called GenoMorph to help accelerate de-extinction efforts. The platform uses 3D morphology, comparative genomics, and developmental biology to identify genes that could be edited in de-extinction projects. This technology will aid in bringing back extinct species, such as the dodo bird, by predicting genetic changes that could restore their iconic appearance.

TimeTeller, a German startup, has developed a saliva test kit to help understand individual circadian rhythms, aiming to reduce side effects from cancer treatment and improve outcomes by timing treatment to each patient's internal clock.

YouTube Music has launched a new labeling system to identify songs created with generative AI, providing transparency for listeners. The labels will appear on the player page and offer additional information about AI's role in the track's creation. This move comes as AI-generated music expands across streaming services, with other platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, and Deezer also adopting their own approaches to labeling and regulating AI-generated content.

Deezer will introduce a feature to filter out AI-generated music from its platform by the end of the year. The move comes after a significant increase in AI-generated music uploads, with over 50% of daily uploads being AI-generated. Users will be able to toggle the feature to exclude AI-generated tracks, albums, and artists from their search results.

Square has launched a new kiosk with a 21.5-inch touchscreen and conversational AI, allowing customers to order naturally. The kiosk has presence detection, contactless payment, and a card slot. It's available for $1,999 with a $99 monthly software fee.