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Yesterday in AI | 13 July 2026
Apple's "Show and Tell" Espionage Lawsuit and the Death of the 10 Blue Links
The talent and data wars governing frontier AI just triggered a massive legal collision and a complete overhaul of the consumer internet. This episode breaks down Apple’s explosive federal lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a coordinated trade secret theft campaign led by Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan that involved candidates bringing physical Apple device components to job interviews. We analyze the quiet resignation of Safety Systems chief Johannes Heidecke following an internal OpenAI reorganization that merged safety teams directly into product development.
We expose Google's quiet Search privacy update that automatically enrolls users into AI training pipelines using voice queries and Google Lens images under the Search Services History tag. We chart the official death of the 10 blue links as Google AI Overviews roll out to 2.5 billion monthly users, breaking the economic model of web publishing. Plus, we cover the Federal Reserve forming a new task force co-led by Marc Andreessen to model AI's impact on interest rates, and Meta’s humiliating 3-day retreat from an Instagram photo-cloning feature following immediate user backlash.
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