{"id":72277,"date":"2026-05-15T11:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/72277\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:09:12","slug":"fortune-tech-openai-vs-apple-americans-vs-ai-data-centers-mythos-cracks-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/72277\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortune Tech: OpenAI vs. Apple, Americans vs. AI data centers, Mythos cracks Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. I\u2019m chuffed, as the Brits say, to share that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Wonder CEO Marc Lore, and none other than Trevor Noah will join us at Fortune Brainstorm Tech<\/a> in Aspen.<\/p>\n

Sharma and Noah will speak about the future of gaming (the former Daily Show host is Microsoft\u2019s \u201cChief Questions Officer\u201d). Lore meanwhile will give us an update on his restaurant-as-a-service ambitions.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s gonna be a Brainstorm for the ages; join us<\/a>. Have a wonderful weekend. \u2014Andrew Nusca<\/p>\n

Want to send thoughts or suggestions to\u00a0Fortune Tech?\u00a0Drop a line\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

OpenAI may take legal action against Apple over Siri\u2019s ChatGPT integration\"OpenAI<\/a>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left) and Apple CEO Tim Cook in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 4, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Will Oliver\/EPA\/Bloomberg\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The AI company in the midst of a lawsuit with the wealthiest tech entrepreneur on the planet is reportedly thinking about filing a new one against\u2026Apple.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(It’s a bold strategy, Cotton<\/a>. Let’s see if it pays off for \u2018em.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

OpenAI is reportedly considering taking legal action against the iPhone maker over Apple\u2019s integration of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT chatbot within its Siri virtual assistant.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When the deal was made two years ago<\/a>, Apple needed to inject some cutting-edge AI into an aging Siri and OpenAI needed a Fortune 500-size flywheel to maintain its momentum as the leader of a new generation of AI startups. The result? A user option for Siri to hand more complex queries to ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

Now OpenAI is \u201cdisappointed by how Apple has integrated ChatGPT,\u201d according to a Bloomberg report<\/a>. Its subtle presence in Siri did not seem to encourage people to subscribe to ChatGPT as the younger company had wanted\u2014an alleged breach of contract.<\/p>\n

Despite attempts to rework the arrangement, things have become so \u201cstrained\u201d that \u201cOpenAI lawyers are actively working with an outside legal firm on a range of options,\u201d Bloomberg notes\u2014which could very well end up being \u201ca bargaining chip as Apple takes steps to also work with OpenAI\u2019s competitors,\u201d adds the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Knowing the answer, I asked Siri if OpenAI had ever sued Apple. It deemed the query complex enough to hand to ChatGPT. \u201cAs of now, OpenAI has not sued Apple,\u201d it responded\u2014adding that Elon Musk\u2019s xAI did sue both companies last year for alleged anticompetitive behavior related to, you guessed it, Siri\u2019s ChatGPT integration. Ah, well. \u2014AN<\/p>\n

Gallup: 71% of Americans oppose local AI data center construction<\/p>\n

The logic of the AI arms race goes like this: AI promises never-before-seen capabilities and efficiencies. Investors, entrepreneurs, and enterprises throw their money at it. AI requires certain things\u2014electricity, space, silicon\u2014to be at its best, so everyone throws their money at those, too.<\/p>\n

But all that stuff has to go somewhere. And for the people who live in those communities? Well, the math ain\u2019t mathin\u2019.<\/p>\n

A new Gallup poll<\/a> shows that 7 in 10 Americans oppose building AI data centers in their communities. Nearly half were \u201cstrongly opposed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c[AI data centers] cover large areas of land, require extensive amounts of electricity to operate, and need substantial water to cool the equipment, raising concerns about their impact on the environment and local electric bills,\u201d Gallup writes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Interestingly, more Americans welcome nuclear power plants in their backyards than AI data centers\u2014a remarkable statement for anyone who lived through the 1980s.<\/p>\n

Why so much local opposition if AI promises economic glory? Rising utility bills, for one. Pollution is another. And given municipalities\u2019 sudden hunger for such facilities, the misuse of taxpayer money is up there, too.<\/p>\n

By the way: Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to strongly oppose AI data centers in their backyards. But distaste is found across the political spectrum, Gallup says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMost Americans appear to be adopting a \u2018not in my backyard\u2019 attitude to building additional data centers,\u201d the firm writes, adding: \u201cPoliticians who favor data centers in their area are likely taking a politically risky stance.\u201d \u2014AN<\/p>\n

Security researchers use Anthropic\u2019s Mythos AI model to crack Apple\u2019s macOS<\/p>\n

Researchers with the Silicon Valley security firm Calif say they were able to use Anthropic\u2019s Mythos AI model to corrupt an Apple Mac\u2019s memory and gain access to parts of the machine that they shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called a \u201cprivilege escalation exploit,\u201d and it can be used to seize control of a computer. The fact that the researchers were able to use Mythos to find two bugs to leverage in an operating system is one thing; the fact that they were able to do so<\/a> in Apple\u2019s legendarily restrictive macOS is quite another.<\/p>\n

\u201cMemory corruption remains the most common vulnerability class everywhere, including iOS and macOS,\u201d the researchers wrote. \u201cIn security, if you can\u2019t fully prevent something, you accept the risk [and] mitigate it by making exploitation more expensive \u2026 Apple is smart and controls the full stack, so they pushed many of these defenses directly into hardware and made bypassing them significantly harder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apple told the Wall Street Journal <\/a>that it\u2019s working to validate Calif\u2019s findings. But the broader takeaway\u2014that Mythos \u201chelped identify the bugs and assisted throughout exploit development,\u201d as the researchers wrote\u2014underscores concerns that the powerful AI model, in the wrong hands, represents an unprecedented risk to computer security. \u2014AN<\/p>\n

More tech<\/p>\n

\u2014Cerebras is the year\u2019s biggest IPO (so far)<\/a>. Shares closed at $311, up 68%, in its market debut, valuing the AI chipmaker at $67 billion.<\/p>\n

\u2014Ford\u2019s new subsidiary that sells battery storage capacity<\/a> to AI data centers sent the automaker\u2019s shares up 25% in two days.<\/p>\n

\u2014Jensen Huang’s foundation<\/a> bought $108 million of AI computing time and donated it to universities and other nonprofit organizations.<\/p>\n

\u2014Motorola Razr Fold, reviewed<\/a>: Good if not great, but with \u201clackluster AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014North Korean operatives stole $2 billion last year<\/a>. Financial firms are their next target.<\/p>\n

\u2014Meta\u2019s new president<\/a>, Dina Powell McCormick, joined Trump on his China trip.<\/p>\n

\u2014xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin<\/a> has a new AI research startup called River AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning. I\u2019m chuffed, as the Brits say, to share that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Wonder CEO Marc…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[587,633,41433,1166,202,41434,41435,5096,41436,3943,15718,41437,994,862,17863,770,1660,613,581,207,41438],"class_list":{"0":"post-72277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sam-altman","8":"tag-anthropic","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-brainstorm-tech","11":"tag-data-centers","12":"tag-elon-musk","13":"tag-ford-motor","14":"tag-fortune-brainstorm","15":"tag-fortune-tech","16":"tag-gallup","17":"tag-ipos","18":"tag-lenovo","19":"tag-marc-lore","20":"tag-meta","21":"tag-microsoft","22":"tag-microsoft-xbox","23":"tag-no-copyright","24":"tag-north-korea","25":"tag-openai","26":"tag-sam-altman","27":"tag-spacex","28":"tag-trevor-noah"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}