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Apple Ordered to Pay $5.7 Billion for Infringing Haptics Patent in iPhone, Apple Watch

Apple has been ordered to pay $5.7 billion in damages for infringing on two patents owned by a gaming headset company. Taction Technology, which also supplied the tech found in the Corsair HS60 headset, alleged in 2021 that Apple infringed on two patents related to its haptics systems in its Apple Watch and iPhone.

The headset company’s complaint, which was heard before a jury in the District Court for the Southern District of California, alleged that Apple’s “Taptic Engine” was “capitalizing on Taction’s innovation and success.” Taction alleged that both systems used vibration-based, tactile transducer technology that helps users feel a device respond to their input, and argued that Apple used its inventions “without proper license or authority.” The jury agreed, but also found that Apple didn’t willfully infringe on the patents.

Apple didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, but said it “strongly disagreed” with the...

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IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025 and plans to spend $518B on cloud, computing, and infrastructure obligations in the coming year

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OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns

In Brief 4:39 PM PDT · September 28, 2026 OpenAI had planned to release yet another AI model next month, but has decided to nix the release over safety concerns. The Wall Street Journal reports that Astra 6.1 was scheduled to be released as soon as within the next

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Exploring the Reality of Designing and Manufacturing Your Own Custom Chips

We live in an amazing time for DIY electronics, with all kinds of high-quality hardware that is relatively affordable and accessible. But everything comes to a grinding halt if there isn’t an existing IC (integrated circuit) chip to accomplish what you need. It just isn’t feasible to make

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Putting AI Agents on a Leash

AI agents are becoming increasingly capable of doing real work on their own, but giving them the ability to browse files, call APIs, run code, and interact with other systems creates some obvious security problems. NVIDIA believes those problems will require more than simply training agents to behave themselves. Its

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IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025 and plans to spend $518B on cloud, computing, and infrastructure obligations in the coming year

OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns

Exploring the Reality of Designing and Manufacturing Your Own Custom Chips

Putting AI Agents on a Leash