On Monday, the courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over alleged broken promises at OpenAI started, as usual, with jury selection. The only tricky part? A lot of the prospective jurors already have an opinion about Elon Musk, and it's not a good one. The Verge reporter Elizabeth Lopatto, who was there at […]

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta is preparing to have to unwind its $2.5B Manus acquisition after China banned the transaction; Manus investors have already received their returns  —  The ban sends a message that China is intent on keeping its AI knowledge within the country  —  Meta Platforms is preparing …

Ann Cao / South China Morning Post:
Shanghai-based Lightelligence, which makes photonics chips, surges by nearly 400% in its trading debut in Hong Kong after raising ~$310M in its IPO  —  Shanghai-based firm's IPO reflects mainland China's push for photonics chips as a fast-growing alternative to conventional semiconductors

OpenAI:
OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source spec for agent orchestration that turns a project-management board like Linear into a control plane for coding agents  —  Six months ago, while working on an internal productivity tool, our team made a controversial (at the time) decision: we'd build our repo with no human-written code.

Charlotte Yang / Bloomberg:
South Korea's stock market value has surpassed the UK's, growing 45%+ this year to $4.04T after a surge in AI-linked tech stocks like Samsung and SK Hynix  —  South Korea has leapfrogged the UK to become the world's eighth-biggest stock market, fueled by a high-octane rally in its artificial intelligence-linked technology champions.