Daring Fireball

‘It Seems You Have a Different Policy’
Ben Thompson, in a subscriber-only Stratechery update Tuesday:
I got a fun email from former Apple executive, Nest founder, andone-time Stratechery Interview subject Tony Fadell in response toyesterday’s Update about Apple suing OpenAI (published withpermission):...

Michael Acton, reporting for the Financial Times from San Francisco:
About 40 former employees now working at OpenAI have been sentletters directing them to preserve documents and communicationsand demanding meetings with Apple’s lawyers, according to multiplepeople familiar with the matter. Apple and OpenAI declined...

Joanna Stern at New Things, last month:
Last month, just days after my book went on sale, AI knockoffs ofthe ebook version flooded Apple Books. There was Joanna Stern OnI Am Not A Robot by Sophie Mercer. I AM NOT A ROBOT by FinnTech. I AM NOT A ROBOT by Joana Stern — with one “n.” (Watchour...

Arjun Kharpal, reporting for CNBC, back on July 2:
Europe’s top court on Thursday upheld Google’s fine of around 4.1billion euros ($4.67 billion) over alleged anti-competitivepractices.
In 2018, the European Commission slapped Google with therecord-breaking penalty on the grounds that it abused Android’smobile dominance to give unfair advantage to its own apps viapre-installation deals with smartphone makers....