Wednesday, July 15

Tag: Reddit

Apple just sued OpenAI for trade secret theft. And Google quietly rewrote how the internet works.
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Apple just sued OpenAI for trade secret theft. And Google quietly rewrote how the internet works.

Two things happened this week that change something concrete for every business. Apple filed a lawsuit on July 10 accusing OpenAI of coordinated industrial espionage. This isn't abstract. According to the complaint, OpenAI's chief hardware officer Tang Tan, a 24-year Apple veteran, instructed job candidates still working at Apple to bring physical components to their interviews for "show and tell" sessions. A former Apple engineer who joined OpenAI found a bug that let him access Apple's network storage after leaving and downloaded files on unreleased products. The lawsuit arrives two months before what's expected to be the largest tech IPO in history. The timing is not a coincidence. And Google. On July 10, when you search for anything on Google you no longer see ten blue links. You see a...
The absolute nightmare of putting AI agents into actual production
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The absolute nightmare of putting AI agents into actual production

It feels like the conversation around AI agents has quietly shifted over the last few months from "look at what this autonomous loop can do" to "how do we actually keep these things from breaking in production." Most of us have figured out the build phase. You pick up a framework like LangGraph or CrewAI, connect a couple of tools and you have a prototype that looks incredible in a controlled environment but the moment you try to slide that into a real corporate infrastructure, the cracks start showing. You realize you don't have a reliable way to handle version control, security teams freak out about unvetted containers and if an agent starts hallucinating or leaking data, there is rarely a clean rollback switch. We built the car but we completely forgot to lay down the roads or put up tr...
Did you know the CEO of OpenAI owns nearly 9% of Reddit while Reddit bans users for AI generated content?
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Did you know the CEO of OpenAI owns nearly 9% of Reddit while Reddit bans users for AI generated content?

Something worth thinking about. According to Reddit's own IPO filings, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and ChatGPT, controls 8.7% of Reddit stock including 9.3% of Class B shares, making him the third largest shareholder behind only Conde Nast and Tencent. He invested $60 million in Reddit in 2021 and sat on Reddit's board until 2022. His stake was worth approximately $1.4 billion as of late 2024. Meanwhile Reddit subreddits are actively banning users for AI generated content while Reddit simultaneously sold user data to Google for $203 million to train AI models. So Reddit profits from AI, its third largest shareholder runs the biggest AI company in the world, and yet individual users get permanently banned for AI content. Republicans are already investigating Altman's conflicts of interest as ...
Someone built an AI agent that hacks networks and holds data for ransom. It just worked.
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Someone built an AI agent that hacks networks and holds data for ransom. It just worked.

So while we've been arguing about whether AI will take our jobs, someone built an LLM agent that breaks into servers, steals credentials, moves through a network, encrypts databases, and drops a ransom note. Fully autonomous. No human at the keyboard after pressing go. Sysdig published the report this month. They're calling it JadePuffer. It got in through a Langflow bug that lets anyone run code on the server without authenticating. After that, the agent took over. Dumped the database. Pulled every credential file it could find. Started going through cloud storage buckets looking for passwords. The crazy part, when one of its requests came back in the wrong format, the agent figured it out, rewrote its own code, and kept going. It went from a failed login to a working exploit in 31 second...
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this openai court story is starting to look ugly

i saw this and honestly this one feel like big mess. nyt and other news people saying openai told court for long time it cannot search training data / logs for their copyrighted stuff. but then looks like maybe they already did searches before, and also billions of chat logs were deleted or made not searchable. link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/openai-faked-inability-to-search-training-data-hid-billions-of-logs-nyt-says/ i know people will say nyt just want money and hate ai. maybe true also. but still, if company say “we cannot search this” and later it comes out “actually yes we did search this before”, then that is not small thing. this is the part of ai nobody want talk about much. everyone say open, safe, trust, future, bla bla. but when court ask simple thing, suddenl...
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