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China's June exports surge at 3-year pace on AI demand and tariff rush

China's exports jumped 27% year-over-year in June, the fastest pace since 2021, while imports rose 36%, both well above forecasts. The surge was driven by global demand for AI hardware and exporters rushing to ship goods before anticipated tariff increases take hold.

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Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging Trade-Secret Theft to Build AI Hardware

Apple has sued OpenAI in federal court in Northern California, alleging trade-secret theft and breach of contract by former Apple employees who jumped to the AI lab and, it says, took confidential designs to help build consumer hardware that would rival the iPhone. The complaint names OpenAI's hardware chief Tang Tan, a former Apple product-design VP behind the iPhone and Apple Watch, and Chang Liu, an ex-Apple engineer who allegedly kept his company laptop and downloaded more than 1,000 pages of confidential files. It is a striking reversal for two firms that partnered in 2024 to put ChatGPT inside Apple Intelligence, and it lands as OpenAI pushes into hardware built around the io startup co-founded by Jony Ive that it bought for about $6.5 billion.

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