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Airbus Scores Cloud Providers on Extraterritorial Law Protection

Airbus has chosen French cloud provider Scaleway as its sovereign cloud partner, making protection against non-European extraterritorial laws a formal, scored criterion in its tender. The aerospace giant assessed providers on technical capabilities, operational excellence, and legal safeguards, including European jurisdiction and data protection. This move signals a shift in how major European industrial buyers evaluate cloud vendors, prioritizing legal jurisdiction alongside technical performance.

Jul 246 minNeura News
Industry

Apple's OpenAI lawsuit: A battle for the post-smartphone era

Apple has filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that former Apple employees, including Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan, solicited confidential information during job interviews and downloaded proprietary files. The case highlights the high stakes of the AI hardware race and raises questions about OpenAI's ability to focus on its upcoming IPO while facing a tenacious legal opponent. The Verge's Nilay Patel and Hayden Field discuss the implications for both companies and the broader AI industry.

Jul 236 minNeura News
AI Models

Meta employees sue over AI-driven layoffs they say were discriminatory

Former and current Meta employees have filed a lawsuit in California federal court, alleging the company used internal AI systems to generate layoff lists that disproportionately targeted employees with disabilities and those on protected leave. The lawsuit claims the AI selection process led to 8,000 job cuts in May, with one plaintiff notified just two days before giving birth. Meta denies the allegations, stating that all personnel decisions are made by humans.

Jul 153 minNeura News
AI Tools

Disaggregated Prefill and Decode for LLM Inference on SageMaker HyperPod

AWS has introduced a method to separate the prefill and decode phases of large language model inference on SageMaker HyperPod. By running each phase on dedicated GPU pools connected via Elastic Fabric Adapter with RDMA, the approach eliminates interference that occurs when the phases share a single GPU. This results in more consistent per-token latency and independent scaling for long-context, high-concurrency workloads.

Jul 106 minNeura News
AI Models

Meta's Muse Image model draws praise and raises privacy questions

Meta released Muse Image, its first image generation model from the Superintelligence Labs. The model works as an agent, using external tools like web search to refine outputs. It ranks second behind OpenAI's GPT Image 2 on the Image Arena platform. A feature that lets users generate AI images of others by @-mentioning their Instagram usernames, without consent, is already drawing criticism from privacy regulators in Europe.

Jul 84 minNeura News