Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

Post by joe_mamba » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 9:20 AM UTC

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> The Reagan-era "greed is good" thing never really died here (among other places). "Greed is good" is the MO everywhere on the planet now. Everyone I know in EU is trying to cash in as much as they can while the going is still good because they feel the ladder constantly being pulled from them (layoffs and wage stagnation everywhere, housing costs massively outpacing wage growth, etc). Either from scamming their com…

> Everyone I know in EU is trying to cash in as much as they can while the going is still good because they feel the ladder constantly being pulled from them Your friends probably aren't engaging in "greed is good" themselves, just responding to the economic conditions created by people who are engaging in it. In the American cultural headspace, "greed is good" refers to a very specific brand of robber-baron capitali…

Post by Andrex » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 12:43 PM UTC

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Of course, this is essentially the basis of capitalism. Corporations are just people, folks, spread the knowledge and we all get richer. The best corporations I worked at had people dedicated to reverse engineering competitor products and were deeply steeped in the market, the worst were those where product just cared about making their bosses happy.

Reverse engineering is not the same as this.

Post by SXX » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC

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Sorry to disappoint you, but no you cannot live "comfortably" in "poor countries" for $100,000 for "years". Well, unless you mean like two years. I lived across South East Asia for more than decade and now live here full time. I have to live on around $20,000 / year most of the time since starting my company. And I do not live anywhere close to what average US / EU citizen will call "comfortable" let alone people fro…

If "poor country" includes "places US foreigners won't go" than you sure as shit can survive longer than 2 years. For example, Thailand would be 2 years like you say. Neighboring Burma/Myanmar would be EASILY 5 years, possibly 10 depending on how long the civil war goes. That's assuming you don't work and live in the capital Yangon.

Post by meken » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

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I’ve seen an uptick in these types of comment on HN - vague ominous sounding attacks on Anthropic. It honestly seems like a coordinated PR effort from OpenAI folks to “both sides” the companies. Which would, if true, be a further indictment of the culture at OpenAI.

You sound like a cigarette company rep. "I've seen an uptick in vague ominous attacks on Marlboro saying that our products kill people. This must be a coordinated PR effort from ." Or perhaps, Anthropic is a dangerous company and people have a duty to call it out? Trust me when I say you don't want to live in a world where they win the AI race (if that wasn't already blatantly obvious). Here's a nice little list of s…

Post by pixl97 » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 12:16 AM UTC

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I mean a lot of people work for companies that do unethical things to their customers all day, why would the company expect ethical treatment back?

A does unethical things to B, therefore I can do unethical things to A. This clearly doesn't work as an argument if A and B are people. Seems like classic 'two wrongs make a right' reasoning.