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Apple vs. OpenAI: The 400-Employee Exodus and the Battle for AI Hardware Dominance
Apple sues OpenAI over 400 former employees allegedly stealing trade secrets. A deep dive into AI talent wars, hardware competition, HBM memory chips, and chip localization.
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OpenAI Cuts Inference Costs in Half: AI Competition Shifts from 'Who's Strongest' to 'Who's Cheapest'
OpenAI engineers have found ways to cut inference costs by over 50%. Combined with Anthropic's research AI tools and an $800M chip startup, the AI race is shifting from capability to cost efficiency.
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Vivo's India Joint Venture: A New Blueprint for Chinese Smartphone Brands Going Local
Vivo's India JV signals a new era for Chinese smartphone brands. We analyze the strategic logic, geopolitical context, and what it means for OPPO, Xiaomi, and India's manufacturing ambitions.
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AI Weekly: GPT-5.6 Launches in Three Tiers, Open-Source Inference Frameworks and Robot Safety Break Through Across the Board
This week in AI: OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 in three tiers (Sol/Terra/Luna) hitting 91.9% on coding benchmarks; DeepSeek and PKU open-source DSpark for 85% faster inference; Prime Intellect trains trillion-param models on just 28 H200s; Anthropic Claude enters Slack.
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Did ASML's Most Advanced EUV Lithography Machines Reach China? The Full Story Behind the US-Netherlands Dispute
The US claims ASML's most advanced EUV lithography machines may have reached China; ASML firmly denies it. A deep dive into the commercial logic, export control gray areas, and semiconductor geopolitics.
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