The AI talent war may now be worthy of a Hollywood adaptation. In a new lawsuit that reads like a corporate crime thriller, Apple accused OpenAI of poaching former Apple employees, conducting “show and tell” interviews, and accessing confidential documents to accelerate its push into consumer hardware. The complaint centers on OpenAI’s hiring of an
It started as a routine product drop. Then it became a public relations nightmare. Now it’s gone. On Friday, Meta said a new feature that allowed users to generate AI images from public Instagram posts is no longer available. Users learned about the feature on Tuesday when Meta introduced Muse Image, the first imaging model
AI is not replacing engineers but rather reshaping who else gets hired. New data from SignalFire shows that software engineers make up 55% of hiring at top tech companies, up from 46% in 2019, even as overall hiring remains below pre-pandemic levels. Other roles are shrinking more quickly. While engineering hiring is down 11% since
Cue the little violins; Someone may have stolen something from Apple. It’s a sad story, but the tech giant knows it very well. Maybe too well. Apple’s successful lawsuit against OpenAI accuses the maker of ChatGPT of orchestrating a campaign to recruit Apple engineers, extract confidential information, and use the company’s trade secrets to fuel
OpenAI has been on a recruiting spree, overloading its workforce and pulling top AI talent from other tech companies. Now, Apple says the AI giant has been playing dirty with its recruiting tactics. The Cupertino tech giant accused OpenAI of stealing trade secrets in a lawsuit filed Friday that also targeted its hardware company, IO,
Apple’s new lawsuit against OpenAI looks less like a routine complaint about trade secrets and more like a detail of how the iPhone maker says its rival built its consumer hardware ambitions. Filed on Friday, the lawsuit accuses OpenAI of “a coordinated pattern of institutional-level misconduct,” including everything from exploiting a security bug to recruiting