Epic Strengthens Collaboration with Microsoft to Accelerate Generative AI-Assisted Tools


On Aug 27, ex-Apple/OpenAI executives Tang Tan and Liu Chang, along with Jony Ive's io Products, asked a court to dismiss Apple's trade secret theft suit with prejudice, seeking to bar refiling. The move escalates a legal battle over top talent mobility and core tech IP.....
Moonshot AI is in advanced talks with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to host its open-source Kimi K3 model, seeking up to 30% revenue share, similar to major open-weight model clients. It has similar deals with smaller cloud platforms. If reached, it would be the first major Chinese AI-U.S. cloud partnership.....
Stability AI has completed a $76 million Series B funding round, which will be used for creative product development, applied research, and professional services. The investors include EA, Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music, and AMD Ventures. The CEO stated that this move confirms the vision of generative AI empowering producers, musicians, and storytellers.
Microsoft CEO Nadella warns enterprises relying on a single AI model risk survival. He says corporate knowledge, prompts, interaction logs, and AI-use metadata are core assets that must stay in-house to avoid vendor/model lock-in. Unlike consumer use, enterprises must keep knowledge assets internal and protect them as AI deepens into business processes.....
Microsoft CEO Nadella warns that relying on a single AI model outsources knowledge and thinking to vendors, risking independence. Using AI contributes data and vision to improve models. Enterprises should keep "token capital" internal; unlike consumers, they must control ongoing knowledge.....