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Happy Monday, everyone 👋 Rui and Luis here.

This week opens with a legal earthquake: Apple is suing OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets through more than 400 former employees.

Meanwhile Meta launched and then partly pulled its new Muse Image generator after creators revolted, and Google Photos can now turn your phone clips into watercolor paintings in seconds.

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Apple has filed a federal lawsuit accusing OpenAI of systematically stealing hardware trade secrets through more than 400 former employees to build its consumer AI device.

🔍 Highlights:

⚖️ Filed July 10 in Northern California federal court, alleging systematic theft of confidential hardware IP to build OpenAI’s consumer device
👤 Tang Tan allegedly directed job candidates still at Apple to bring “actual parts” for “show and tell” sessions during interviews at OpenAI
💻 Former Apple engineer Chang Liu allegedly kept his Apple-issued laptop and downloaded dozens of confidential files from Apple’s cloud storage after joining OpenAI
🔄 Tensions escalated after OpenAI acquired Jony Ive’s io Products for $6.4 billion, creating a direct competitor to Apple’s own AI hardware plans
💥 Apple alleges OpenAI coached departing employees on how to evade security processes when leaving the company

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., left, and Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during a dinner with tech leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025.

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📷 Meta launched Muse Image and then quickly pulled its most controversial feature after creators and SAG-AFTRA revolted over letting anyone AI-manipulate another user’s public Instagram photos with a simple tag. The core generator stays, but the backlash was loud. (continue reading)

🎨 Google Photos launched Video Remix, using the new Gemini Omni model to transform ordinary phone clips into stylized art like watercolor, oil painting, and sketchbook in seconds, rolling out now to AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers. (continue reading)

📰 Major newspapers accused OpenAI of lying to the court about searching its models for copyrighted material and deleting billions of relevant conversations, with publishers asking the judge to impose sanctions in the ongoing copyright fight. (continue reading)

🏛 The Federal Reserve created its first AI task force and appointed a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen, a Stanford economist currently at Anthropic, and Microsoft’s Asha Sharma to assess AI’s impact on jobs and productivity. (continue reading)

Prompt:

A mobile travel planner app requires three main design elements which include the home dashboard and itinerary screen and booking screen. The home dashboard should display upcoming trips and provide quick access to essential features and show a simple map preview. The itinerary screen should display daily schedules which include icons and notes and timelines for users to view. The booking screen should present flight and hotel choices through filters which display price comparison cards until users find their preferred option to click the Book Now button.