If Apple really is circling names like Perplexity, Cohere, Mistral, and Databricks -- that’s not just a feature acquisition spree. That’s a declaration. A reframing.

OpenAI tells The Verge the deal is still happening, but it scrubbed mentions due to a trademark lawsuit from Iyo, the hearing device startup spun out of Google’s moonshot factory.
"Buying a multibillion-dollar AI company would represent a radical shift away from Apple’s conservative M&A strategy."
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"Apple is not looking for a search engine. It’s looking for a brain."

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"Not likely! But Meta-Scale is so unlikely that I feel we aren’t living in a world of likelies." — Perplexity chief business officer Dmitry Shevelenko
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From Marcus Mendes' "Foxconn to start making iPhone casings in the country" posted Thursday by 9to5Mac.

"More than making me look good, I think it makes them look bad."
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