🤖 Apple Sues OpenAI, A Record-Breaking $26B IPO, and the AI Safety Chief Is Out

Apple has filed a bombshell lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that senior leadership orchestrated a scheme to poach engineers who walked out with confidential prototypes, secret presentations, and sensitive supplier data. The suit also names Jony Ive's hardware startup and two key OpenAI executives. Meanwhile, OpenAI is grappling with a wave of leadership departures — including its head of safety — raising eyebrows at a critical moment for the company. On the product side, GPT-5.6 has finally launched after a White House-requested delay tied to cybersecurity concerns, alongside a new superapp merging ChatGPT with its coding tools. Meta had a chaotic week after its new AI image feature sparked immediate privacy outrage, forcing the company to pull it within days. South Korean chip giant SK Hynix just completed what's being called the largest foreign IPO in US history, raising $26.5 billion on the Nasdaq as AI infrastructure demand surges. And Microsoft's latest sustainability report revealed a startling 25% jump in carbon emissions driven by data center growth. In a surprising twist, one solar company thinks it has a radical new answer to AI's power problem — and it starts on your rooftop.Subscribe to Daily Inference: dailyinference.comLove AI? Check out our other AI tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence Radio