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The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI

July 14, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI is packed with a number of extraordinary allegations that paint a picture of a coordinated effort to extract confidential information from current and former Apple employees. The 41-page complaint, filed on Friday, includes one message that reads, ‘LOL, I found out I can access the [network storage], so funny.’ […]

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New York Times and Daily News Accuse OpenAI of Hiding Evidence in Copyright Trial

July 13, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

The New York Times and The Daily News have escalated their two-year-old copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the AI company of concealing evidence about its ability to search customer chat logs and training datasets for their copyrighted works. In a court filing, the news outlets allege that OpenAI lied when it claimed it lacked the […]

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Paris-based voice AI startup Gradium raises $100M seed round, backed by Nvidia

July 13, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Paris-based voice AI startup Gradium has raised $100 million in total for its seed round, with Nvidia joining as a new investor, the company announced Thursday. The round was originally launched in December 2024 at $70 million but was re-opened to accommodate additional backers, including the chip giant. Gradium, a Paris-based voice AI startup, has […]

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Meta pulls controversial Instagram AI feature after backlash over privacy and misuse concerns

July 12, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Meta has pulled a controversial artificial intelligence feature on Instagram that let users modify photos from public accounts without notifying the original poster, the company confirmed Friday. The feature, which was part of the newly announced Muse Image AI generator, allowed individuals to generate images by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts they wanted to reference. The […]

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Meta jumps into the AI coding race with Muse Spark 1.1, taking on OpenAI and Anthropic

July 12, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Meta officially entered the increasingly competitive AI coding market on Thursday with the launch of Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic coding tasks. The company is charging $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, positioning itself directly against established rivals OpenAI and Anthropic. Meta released Muse Spark […]

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The $3 trillion AI question: Can revenue ever catch up to infrastructure spending?

July 11, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Three years ago, Sequoia partner David Cahn was one of the first to put a hard number on Silicon Valley’s enormous AI infrastructure bet. In 2023, he calculated that $200 billion in revenue would be needed to justify Nvidia’s $50 billion in GPU revenue and the associated data center costs. Today, that figure has ballooned. […]

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Elon Musk calls Anthropic the ‘leader in AI’ after signing $40 billion SpaceX deal

July 11, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Elon Musk has reversed his public stance on Anthropic, now calling the AI lab the undisputed leader in the field after SpaceX signed a $40 billion deal to host its models. In a post on X on Thursday, Musk wrote that he was “clearly wrong” about the company, which he had dismissed in September 2025 […]

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OpenAI unveils GPT-5.6 family: Sol, Terra, Luna target coding, cybersecurity, and cost savings

July 10, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

OpenAI released its GPT-5.6 family of models on Thursday, introducing three distinct variants — Sol, Terra, and Luna — in a bid to reclaim the narrative in an increasingly competitive AI market. The launch follows similar announcements this week from SpaceXAI and Meta, but OpenAI’s messaging is squarely aimed at its primary rival, Anthropic. OpenAI […]

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OpenAI Shuts Down Atlas Browser, Moves AI Features to ChatGPT and Chrome

July 10, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

OpenAI is sunsetting Atlas, the AI-powered browser it launched in October 2024 with ChatGPT at its core, just months after its debut. The company is not abandoning its vision for AI-assisted web browsing, but is instead redistributing the agentic features tested in Atlas across ChatGPT’s desktop app and a new Google Chrome extension. OpenAI is […]

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Lovable in talks to raise $300M at $13.2B valuation, doubling its worth in six months

July 9, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a valuation of $13.2 billion — exactly double the $6.6 billion valuation the company achieved last December, Sifted reported on July 8, 2026. Menlo Ventures, a firm that announced its latest $3 billion fund last month, is expected to lead the round, according […]