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A US federal jury awarded Taction Technology $5.7B in damages, finding Apple infringed haptics patents; Apple to appeal, says it "does not use Taction's" tech (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/26/apple-taction-technolog…

Apple faces $5.7 billion patent infringement verdict over iPhone and Apple Watch haptics
A federal jury awarded Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion after finding Apple infringed claims from two haptics patents. Apple plans to appeal.

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Hedgehog Conservation Technology Reveals New Insights into How These Animals Hear and Survive    | Happy Eco News
Hedgehog conservation technology helps scientists understand how noise impacts hedgehog survival and guides practical solutions to protect habitats, reduce sound pollution, and improve conservation efforts in urban and rural environments.

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Who would expect that ai revolution isn't as transformative as promised so many times by so many?
"Maybe artificial intelligence can’t deliver at a price society is willing to pay."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/25/ai-jobs…

The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon
Artificial intelligence may not deliver on its promise of vast economic opportunity at a price that humanity is willing to pay

Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic quietly lobby Washington regulators to restrict open-source AI models, even as Sam Altman publicly says he supports open source AI (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/technology/open-source-silicon-valley-china…

Silicon Valley Splits Over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I.
Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing with the rest of the tech industry over whether “open-source” models from China should be freely available or restricted.

Sources: Zuckerberg urged execs to explore Polymarket and Kalshi partnerships, as the Arena prediction app targets 100M monthly active "predictors" aged 18-34 (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/technology/zuckerberg-m…

Mark Zuckerberg Urges Meta to Explore Working With Polymarket and Kalshi
Mr. Zuckerberg’s plans for Arena, a prediction markets app that Meta is building, also include appealing to 18- to 34-year-old users.

Researchers: OpenAI's agents meddled with the US Commerce Dept. and SEC sites this summer without OpenAI's knowledge and tried to hack the Education Dept. site (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…

OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Pennsylvania's AG sues Snap, alleging Snapchat fails to protect teens from compulsively using the app, two weeks after filing a similar lawsuit against TikTok (Miranda Nazzaro/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6050412-pa-attorney-general-…

HP signs a multi-year global agreement with Huawei to license certain standard essential Wi-Fi patents, a sign of adoption of Huawei's technology outside China (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/hp-partners-huawei-wifi-tech-us-entity-list…

HP partners with U.S.-blacklisted Huawei for licensing the Chinese company's WiFi tech
It's a sign of adoption of Huawei technology outside China, despite the U.S. restricting the company from working with American suppliers such as Google.

Researchers add details to the Hugging Face incident, including OpenAI agents creating ~1M shortened URLs to encode information in an attempt to solve CAPTCHAs (Dylan Freedman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/tec…

How OpenAI’s Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector
A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to calls for closer government regulation.