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Today, we look at HP's WiFi patent deal with a blacklisted company, another high-profile exit at OpenAI, and Android's new fix for car sickness.
These are today's updates.
HP signs a WiFi patent deal with blacklisted Huawei
OpenAI's data center chief is out, adding to a long list of exits
Android's new Motion Assist fights motion sickness
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. Top News.
HP signed a multi-year global agreement to license WiFi patents from Huawei, despite Huawei still being on the US trade blacklist since 2019. The deal is a cross-license, meaning Huawei also gets rights to some of HP's patents. It follows a patent dispute between the two that started after Huawei sued HP last year over unauthorized use of a WiFi 6 patent.
HP calls this a standard-essential patent license that computer and phone makers sign to legally use WiFi technology, and says it's not the start of any broader relationship with Huawei. Huawei charges 50 cents per consumer device using its WiFi 6 patents, and says more than 1.6 billion devices already use them.
Chris Malone, who ran OpenAI's data center strategy, left the company last week after about a year and a half on the job. Before he left, OpenAI had already shifted his team's reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and put VP Sachin Katti in charge instead.
Malone's exit is the latest in a run of over a dozen executive departures this year, according to a Business Insider count. In the past month alone, OpenAI lost its chief revenue officer and longtime COO Brad Lightcap, and its former second-in-command Fidji Simo stepped back in July to deal with a chronic illness. The company has also lost its head of ethics and disbanded its preparedness team, the group that assessed catastrophic AI risks.
Brockman has pushed back on the narrative, saying the spotlight on OpenAI means "every departure gets scrutinized" more than it would elsewhere.
Google is rolling out Motion Assist on Android 17, starting with Pixel phones. When your phone detects you're in a moving car, bus, or train, small dots appear around the edges of the screen and move along with the vehicle's turns, braking, and acceleration. The idea is to close the gap between what your eyes see (a still screen) and what your inner ear feels (motion), which is what causes car sickness in the first place.
You can find it under Settings àYour Profile à All Services à Personal & Device Safety. There's a toggle for automatic activation in a moving vehicle, a Quick Settings tile for manual control, and options to customize the dots' color, shape, and opacity.
The rollout is inconsistent even across Pixel phones right now, so it might not have reached your device yet. Apple shipped something similar, Vehicle Motion Cues, back in iOS 18.
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Funding
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. Prompt of the Day.
AI Competitive Intelligence Brief
When to use this?
Use this prompt to spot meaningful AI moves by competitors and turn market signals into clear risks, opportunities, and actions for your leadership team.
You are an experienced competitive intelligence analyst supporting an enterprise leadership team.
Create a concise AI Competitive Intelligence Brief for my company.
Company:
[Company name]
Industry:
[Industry]
Key competitors:
[List 3-5 competitors]
Time period:
[Last 30 days / Last quarter / Custom period]
Analyze publicly available information and identify meaningful changes in how these competitors are using, investing in, or positioning around AI.
For each competitor, cover:
1. New AI products, features, or launches
2. Major AI partnerships, acquisitions, or investments
3. AI-related funding or capital allocation
4. New AI leadership hires or organizational changes
5. Changes to AI pricing, packaging, or product strategy
6. Notable customer wins or enterprise deployments
7. AI-related messaging, positioning, or marketing campaigns
8. Important technology or infrastructure announcements
9. Evidence of AI adoption within their own operations
10. Emerging threats or opportunities for our company
For every important development, include:
- What happened
- Date
- Why it matters
- Potential impact on our company
- Source
Separate confirmed facts from analysis, assumptions, and speculation.
Then create:
### Competitive Snapshot
Rank each competitor's current AI position as:
- Leading
- Advancing
- Stable
- Falling behind
Briefly explain the reasoning.
### What Changed
Identify the 5 most important competitive AI moves during this period.
### Threats
List the competitive developments that could create the biggest risks for our company.
### Opportunities
Identify gaps, market opportunities, or customer needs our company could act on.
### Executive Watchlist
Give me 5 things leadership should monitor over the next 90 days.
### Recommended Actions
Suggest 3-5 actions our leadership team should consider based on the findings.
Prioritize developments that could affect revenue, customer retention, market positioning, operating costs, technology strategy, or competitive advantage.
Ignore minor product updates, generic AI announcements, and news without meaningful business implications.
Use recent, credible sources wherever possible. Cite the source for every material claim.
Do not present speculation as fact. If evidence is limited or conflicting, say so.
Keep the brief concise, factual, and decision-oriented. Write for senior executives who need to understand what changed, why it matters, and what they should do next.Get more such prompts in the Prompting Playbook (free for you)
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