Get Paid To Train AI On Your Phone Calls?

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

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Another lawsuit against OpenAI, this time from xAI. Intel approached Apple about bailing them out. What if crypto was reversable so you could recover fraud. Drama in open source land. And would you like to get paid to train AI on your phone calls? You’re in luck! Musk's xAI accuses rival OpenAI of stealing trade secrets (Reuters) Intel Is Seeking an Investment From Apple as Part of Its Comeback Bid (Bloomberg) Spotify to label AI music, filter spam and more in AI policy change (TechCrunch) Stablecoin issuer Circle examines ‘reversible’ transactions in departure for crypto (Financial Times) Microsoft embraces OpenAI rival Anthropic to improve Microsoft 365 apps (The Verge) Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover (Joel Drapper) Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Thursday, September 25th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.0	Today, another lawsuit against Open AI, this time from XAI. Intel approached Apple about bailing them out.
0:15.0	What if crypto was reversible so you could recover fraud? Drama in open source land. And would you like to get paid to train AI on your phone calls?
0:23.3	Well, you're in luck.
0:24.8	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:33.3	XAI is suing OpenAI in California for allegedly stealing trade secrets by means of hiring away key employees, quoting Reuters.
0:43.2	OpenAI is targeting those individuals with knowledge of XAI's key technologies and business plans,
0:48.3	including XAI's source code and its operational advantages in launching data centers,
0:53.0	then inducing those employees to breach
0:54.9	their confidentiality and other obligations to XAI through unlawful means, the lawsuit said.
1:00.6	Spokespeople for the companies did not immediately respond to request for comment on the complaint
1:04.4	on Thursday. XAI said it discovered the alleged campaign to undermine the company while
1:09.2	investigating allegations of trade
1:10.8	secret theft against former engineer Juchen Li, who it has accused of taking confidential
1:16.8	information to the chat GPT maker in a separate lawsuit. Lee has not yet responded to the allegations.
1:23.2	XAI has separately sued Apple in federal court for allegedly conspiring with OpenAI to suppress
1:28.1	rival platforms. Apple has not yet responded to that lawsuit. Musk is also suing OpenAI over its
1:34.7	conversion to a for profit company, while OpenAI has counter sued Musk for harassment.
1:39.9	According to this complaint, Open AI hired away former company engineer Jimmy Fratier and an
1:46.2	unnamed senior finance executive in addition to Lee in order to obtain XAI trade secrets.
1:51.8	Frachier, who is not a defendant in the complaint, could not immediately be reached for comment,
1:55.7	unquote.
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