The must-reads<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology.<\/em><\/p>\n 1 Apple has sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets<\/strong> 2 A Nobel-winning chemist is leaving the US to lead an AI lab in China<\/strong> 8 AI may\u00a0soon make campaign text messages\u00a0more potent\u2014and irritating<\/strong> 9 An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein\u2019s theory its most precise test yet\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> 10 Australia\u2019s biggest radio hit may be the product of GenAI<\/strong> Quote of the day<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2014A text message sent by former Apple engineer Chang Liu to a colleague, which a new lawsuit alleges was part of a scheme to steal hardware IP for OpenAI.<\/p>\n One More Thing<\/strong><\/p>\n CARLOS PARRA RIOS<\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n On a bright April morning in 2025, a surveillance plane operated by the Colombian military spotted a 40-foot-long \u201cnarco sub\u201d idling in the Caribbean Sea. The stealthy vessel, used by drug cartels to move cocaine north, could sail with its hull almost entirely underwater.<\/p>\n After seizing the boat, the coast guard noticed something unusual: there was no one on board. This was Colombia\u2019s first confirmed uncrewed narco sub, operable by remote control, but also capable of a degree of autonomous travel.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n #Download #donor #conception #cap #world #models<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The must-reads I\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7883,11697,11696,803,2966,11695,920],"class_list":["post-17052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-cap","tag-conception","tag-donor","tag-download","tag-models","tag-the-download-a-donor-conception-cap-and-world-models-for-ai","tag-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/C0152102-Sperm_bank.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/C0152102-Sperm_bank-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/C0152102-Sperm_bank-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/C0152102-Sperm_bank-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/C0152102-Sperm_bank-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/C0152102-Sperm_bank.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/C0152102-Sperm_bank.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/C0152102-Sperm_bank-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/C0152102-Sperm_bank-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
OpenAI purportedly stole IP to develop its own consumer hardware. (CNBC)
+ The suit claims OpenAI poached Apple staff to access the information. <\/em>(BBC)
+ And requested trade secrets in job interviews with Apple workers.<\/em> (Guardian)
+ Apple also sued two former employees, Chang Liu and Tang Tan.<\/em> (Reuters $)<\/p>\n
Omar Yaghi will head an institute using AI to discover new materials. (LA Times $)
+ He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating \u201cmolecular sponges.\u201d <\/em>(NYT $)
+ His departure comes as China tries to woo US scientists.<\/em> (Nature)
+ The White House has slashed science spending. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review)
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3 The EU is moving closer to banning children from social media<\/strong>
It\u2019s proposed barring under-13s unless supervised by an adult. (NYT $)
+ And limiting access for older children. <\/em>(Bloomberg $)
+ The EU has also told Meta to disable autoplay and infinite scroll. <\/em>(Politico $)
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4 Meta scrapped an AI image feature on Instagram after a backlash<\/strong>
It allowed users to generate images based on public accounts. (TechCrunch)
+ And automatically opted in any Instagram user with a public account. <\/em>(NYT $)
+ AI memories are privacy\u2019s next frontier.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)
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5 Phoebe Gates\u2019 shopping app claimed credit for sales it didn\u2019t drive<\/strong>
Phia claimed unearned affiliate sales through fake clicks. (Bloomberg $)
+ Cofounder Gates is the daughter of Microsoft cofounder Bill.<\/em> (Engadget)
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6 Leaked police drone footage exposes the new reality of surveillance<\/strong>
Hours of San Francisco Police video\u00a0were accidentally released. (Wired $)
+ Surveillance from drones is on the rise in the US.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)
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7 Over two-thirds of Americans back a Sanders-style AI ownership\u00a0plan<\/strong>
A poll found strong support for public ownership of AI stock. (Gizmodo)
+ Tech firms have their own takes on the idea. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n
AI platforms are training bots to sound like political candidates. (NPR)<\/p>\n
It measured Earth\u2019s twisting of space-time more precisely. (Rest of World)<\/p>\n
Musicians are questioning how the song was made. (Guardian)<\/p>\n\u201cLOL, I found out I can access the [network storage], so funny.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Colombian drug trade<\/strong><\/h4>\n