AI Daily — July 11, 2026
Industry & Funding
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in record US listing — SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in its Nasdaq debut, the largest US listing ever by a non-American company, topping Alibaba's $25 billion IPO in 2014. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is reportedly in talks with SK Hynix and Samsung about building memory fabs on US soil. Per its own filing, SK Hynix is spending the proceeds on a fab and a packaging plant in South Korea plus EUV scanners. None of it on US capacity. TechCrunch ↗
My takeaway: SK Hynix's $26.5 billion Nasdaq debut measures investor convictions in memory.
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft — Apple filed suit Friday in the Northern District of California, alleging trade secret theft and breach of contract by former Apple staff now at OpenAI. Apple says the conduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, naming Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan, who spent 24 years at Apple and left as VP of product design for iPhone and Apple Watch. OpenAI had not responded at publication. TechCrunch ↗
My takeaway: Treat this as a list of things that could go wrong at your company, not a list of things OpenAI did. None of it is proven yet. OpenAI has not even responded. But look at what Apple says happened. Someone left with a company laptop and never gave it back. Someone pulled confidential files on the way out. Someone already at the new company told job candidates what to bring to the interview. Any company can be hit by all three. Tighten your IP protection, your device controls, and your off-boarding process now.
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