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Apple Lawyer Mixed Up Two OpenAI Employees Before Trade-Secret Suit

Apple Lawyer Mixed Up Two OpenAI Employees Before Trade-Secret Suit

An outside Apple lawyer mixed up two OpenAI employees during February talks over suspected trade-secret theft. The error matters because Apple later told a federal court that OpenAI had “never responded,” while its complaint accuses a former engineer of downloading more than 1,000 pages and cites 400 former Apple employees now at OpenAI. The email record changes one part of Apple’s account, but the harder legal question will be tested only after OpenAI answers and discovery begins.

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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week

This week's Repo Radar tracks five GitHub projects where AI agents move from chat into real production work: OpenMontage turns a coding assistant into a video studio, Google Labs' design.md gives agents a design-system spec, Strix runs autonomous penetration tests, Alibaba's page-agent drives live web interfaces in natural language, and MinerU converts messy PDFs into LLM-ready markdown. Difficulty scores, licenses, and push dates for each, plus why OpenMontage is Repo of the Week.

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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week

Repo Radar's eleventh issue tracks five GitHub projects builders attach to AI agents once a demo becomes a workload: Agent-Reach, a CLI giving agents live access to Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube; Flue, the Astro team's sandbox agent harness; cognee, a graph-based memory layer; hunk, a review-first diff viewer for agent-written code; and mistral.rs, a Rust engine for local inference. Each scored on stars, language, license, push date, and setup difficulty.

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GLM-5.2 Edges Kimi K2.7 Code in Early Coding Tests
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GLM-5.2 Edges Kimi K2.7 Code in Early Coding Tests

Five reviewers ran GLM-5.2 and Kimi K2.7 Code head-to-head on real coding tasks. GLM-5.2 came out with a narrow edge on design, cost, and code that held up to a second look.

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When Claude Fable 5 Is Worth Double, and When to Use Opus 4.8

Anthropic reports Claude Fable 5 falls back to Opus 4.8 on a fifth of Terminal-Bench trials, and after the July relaunch one tester measured three of four debugging tasks rerouted. The launch drew a researcher revolt over hidden limits; Andon Labs found an alignment slip. Double the price.

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Give Your AI a Memory Layer That Survives Sessions

Coding agents, support bots, and assistants all restart cold. A bigger context window does not fix it; a memory layer does. A build-along with Mem0 and Qdrant, the contradiction test most demos skip, and the real token math, costs, and controls a production memory store actually needs.

Demis Hassabis Draws Praise for Up-to-30-Day Frontier AI Review Plan
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Demis Hassabis Draws Praise for Up-to-30-Day Frontier AI Review Plan

Demis Hassabis wants frontier AI labs to share models up to 30 days before release. Gary Marcus praised the plan, Brookings wants enforceable rules, and the harder fight is whether a lab-funded watchdog can make its own funders stop.

Demis Hassabis is asking Washington to make frontier AI labs hand over their strongest models up to 30 days before release. The Google DeepMind chief wants a FINRA-style standards body funded by industry but overseen by government. Gary Marcus praised the move, Brookings wants enforceable rules, and the harder fight is whether a lab-funded watchdog can tell its own funders to stop before more reviews happen by emergency order in Washington.

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