🔍 Apple Exec Jumps to Meta, Anubis Fights Bots, Copilot Hits Desktops

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🔍 Apple Exec Jumps to Meta, Anubis Fights Bots, Copilot Hits Desktops

Plus: Apple Softens iOS 26 Look, OpenAI Tightens Security.

Jose Montes de Oca

Jul 08, 2025

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Good morning. It’s Tuesday, Jul 8. Today we are covering:

Apple Loses Top AI Models Executive to Meta's Hiring Spree
The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Microsoft's Copilot Plus features might arrive on desktop PCs later this year
iOS 26 beta 3 dials back Liquid Glass
OpenAI clamps down on security after foreign spying threats

Let’s dive in

Apple Loses Top AI Models Executive to Meta's Hiring Spree

By Mark Gurman via Bloomberg

Ruoming Pang, head of Apple’s AI foundation models team, is leaving the company to join Meta Platforms Inc., marking a major loss for Apple's AI division.
Pang, a former Alphabet engineer who joined Apple in 2021, becomes the latest hire for Meta’s new superintelligence group, part of its aggressive AI talent acquisition.
The departure underscores Apple’s ongoing struggles in artificial intelligence, as competitors like Meta ramp up efforts to dominate the next wave of AI development.

𝕏: Apple’s top executive and distinguished engineer in charge of its AI models, Ruoming Pang, has been poached by Meta for its new AI Superintelligence division, sources tell me. - Mark Gurman (@markgurman)

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

By Emanuel Maiberg via 404 Media

Xe Iaso created Anubis, an open-source tool launched in January, to combat AI scrapers overwhelming small websites and servers by filtering out excessive automated requests.
Anubis has been downloaded nearly 200,000 times and is now in use by major organizations including GNOME, FFmpeg, and UNESCO.
Iaso was prompted to develop Anubis after her personal Git server was crippled by scraper traffic—an increasingly common problem for libraries, archives, and small institutions targeted for AI training data.

𝕏: Before AI you had thousands upon thousands of small websites making money by teaching how-to skills online, all competing with each other to rank at the top of Google search results so they could get eyeballs and ad revenue… - Julius Ruechel (@JuliusRuechel)

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Microsoft's Copilot Plus features might arrive on desktop PCs later this year

By Tom Warren via The Verge

Intel’s upcoming Arrow Lake Refresh desktop CPUs are expected to include a more advanced NPU (Neural Processing Unit) capable of supporting Microsoft’s Copilot Plus AI features, potentially bringing these capabilities to desktop PCs for the first time.
The refresh will reportedly adopt Intel’s “NPU 4” architecture, similar to that found in Lunar Lake laptop chips, but will not add new CPU or GPU cores—disappointing gamers hoping for performance gains.
Despite improved efficiency and thermals in initial Arrow Lake chips, gaming performance has lagged, with Intel unlikely to challenge AMD’s Ryzen 9800X3D and 9950X3D until the Nova Lake generation launches in 2026.

𝕏: Microsoft’s Copilot Plus features might arrive on desktop PCs later this year. Intel's unannounced Arrow Lake Refresh chips might have an NPU capable of enabling Microsoft's Windows AI features. - Tom Warren (@tomwarren)

iOS 26 beta 3 dials back Liquid Glass

By Sarah Perez via TechCrunch

Apple has scaled back the Liquid Glass design in iOS 26 beta 3, making key UI elements like Notifications and the Apple Music navigation bar more opaque after complaints about readability and visual clutter.
The changes follow prior tweaks in beta 2, which reduced transparency in the Control Center, but now extend to more system areas to improve accessibility and legibility.
Some users and commentators have criticized the reversal, calling it a shift to “frosted glass” and questioning Apple’s decision to debut a bold design only to largely walk it back.

𝕏: Announce a huge redesign just to throw much of it away. Apple should be allowing users to choose how much glass they want instead of just reversing by 75%. At least rename it now to Frosted Glass. Lol. - Mark Gurman (@markgurman)

OpenAI clamps down on security after foreign spying threats

By Cristina Criddle via Financial Times

OpenAI has tightened internal security protocols following concerns about foreign espionage targeting its cutting-edge AI technologies.
The move comes amid growing scrutiny from U.S. intelligence officials over potential infiltration by state-affiliated actors, particularly from China and Russia.
Enhanced safeguards include employee background checks, data access restrictions, and deeper cooperation with government agencies to mitigate national security risks.

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