OpenAI Has Receipts
Summary
OpenAI publicly disputes Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit by releasing internal communications to counter claims of data theft by former employees. In M&A news, Bending Spoons acquires Airtable for $1.28 billion, while Anthropic secures a $10 billion compute deal with Volta Infra in Norway. The episode also covers US tariffs on polysilicon, rising US-China AI tensions, and Microsoft’s directive to engineers to stop “token maxing” on AI tools.
Topics discussed
Intro: OpenAI vs Apple, Bending Spoons, and more
OpenAI disputes Apple trade secrets lawsuit with receipts
Bending Spoons acquires Airtable for $1.28 billion
Anthropic's $10B Norway compute deal and circular financing
US prepares tariffs on polysilicon to counter China
China concerned over US AI models as cyber weapons
Microsoft ends token maxing for engineers
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