In a nutshell: This year’s iOS, iPadOS, and macOS updates mark the beginning of Apple’s long-awaited response to the generative AI offerings from its rivals. The Cupertino-based company also used the opportunity to address growing concerns about child safety on mobile devices, refine its controversial Liquid Glass design language, and introduce performance improvements across its platforms.

Early testing is now available for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27. The updates, which bring generative AI features to Apple devices and strengthen child-safety controls, will enter public beta testing next month before launching this fall.

All supported Apple devices receive a revamped Siri experience that serves as the centerpiece of the company’s new generative AI platform. Siri can describe what it sees on screen, locate photos based on user descriptions, search the web for information, draft documents, and perform tasks across multiple apps.

Conversations are encrypted and stored in iCloud, allowing users to seamlessly continue interactions across Apple devices. However, it remains unclear how Apple has addressed the hallucination issues commonly associated with generative AI systems.

Apple Intelligence can also edit photos, generate images, surface relevant information during calls, organize email, create AI-generated shortcuts, and quickly update saved passwords. However, certain cloud-dependent features will be subject to daily usage limits, which users can remove with an iCloud+ subscription.

New child account controls give parents greater oversight of the apps, websites, and other content their children can access. Parents can also manage screen time and monitor purchases through a more intuitive interface.

Following criticism of the Liquid Glass design language introduced last year, Apple is adding an opacity slider that allows users to adjust transparency levels for improved readability.

The company has also promised performance improvements across its platforms. According to Apple, apps will launch up to 30% faster, new photos will save up to 70% faster, and AirDrop transfers will be up to 80% faster.

Furthermore, iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 can switch between Wi-Fi and cellular networks more quickly and seamlessly, helping users stay connected while traveling. Additionally, an optimized CPU scheduler improves performance through a new approach to task prioritization, particularly on older devices.

Alongside these changes, macOS 27 adds improved support for ultrawide displays at resolutions of up to 5K and refresh rates of up to 120Hz. Mac users can also switch seamlessly between audio and video podcasts. Meanwhile, AirPods gain custom equalization settings, while watchOS 27 introduces custom Wallet passes that support any membership QR code or barcode.

iOS 27 supports the iPhone 11 and newer models, maintaining compatibility with every device that supported iOS 26.

Marking the end of support for Intel-based Macs, macOS 27 is compatible with MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models from 2020 or later, the 2021 iMac and newer, the 2020 Mac mini and newer, the 2022 Mac Studio and newer, and the 2023 Mac Pro.

iPadOS 27 supports the M4 iPad Pro and newer models, the 12.9-inch iPad Pro (4th generation and later), the 11-inch iPad Pro (2nd generation and later), the 13-inch and 11-inch iPad Air models powered by M2 chips or newer, the iPad Air (4th generation and later), the A16-powered iPad, the standard iPad (9th generation and later), and the iPad mini (6th generation and later), including the A17 Pro model.

This year’s Apple Watch update supports the Apple Watch SE 3, Series 10, Series 11, Ultra 2, and Ultra 3.

PhysicsX has its headquarters in London, with an additional office in New York, and a presence in California’s Bay Area and Singapore.

PhysicsX, an AI company for industrials, has announced an oversubscribed $300m Series C financing round that brings the approximate value of the organisation to around $2.4bn. 

The round was led by Temasek, with participation from additional investors such as M&G Investments, Intrepid Growth Partners, Applied Materials, Atomico, General Catalyst, July Fund, NGP, Nvidia, Radius and Siemens.

PhysicsX has its headquarters in London, with an additional office in New York, and a presence in California’s Bay Area and Singapore. The company aims to deliver deep physics AI enablement across the engineering life cycle, working with organisations in the areas of aerospace, defence, automotives, semiconductors, materials, energy and renewables.

To meet growing demand, the company has doubled its team in the last 12 months to more than 300 people. There are plans, the company said, to further accelerate growth with the expansion of its platform capabilities and research, including the development of larger, more powerful pre-trained physics AI models, known as ‘large physics models’.

Commenting on the announcement, Jacomo Corbo, the co-founder and CEO of PhysicsX, said, “Almost every hard problem in the physical economy – better aircraft, better chips, better engines, better energy systems – comes down to how fast and how well engineers and machine operators can work through the underlying physics. 

“For decades, that has been the binding constraint on hardware innovation. Physics AI removes it. We are giving engineers the ability to explore thousands of designs where they once managed a handful, in seconds rather than weeks, across the most demanding industries in the world.” 

He added, “We are also enabling more reliable, more efficient and altogether new ways of doing engineering, manufacturing and production. This financing lets us put that capability in the hands of more engineers and push the frontier toward ever larger and more capable large physics models.”

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At its Games Showcase yesterday, Xbox unveiled Halo Campaign Evolved, which effectively rebuilds the 2001 campaign from the first Halo game from the ground up as an accurate remake with major added content. Players step back into the shoes of the Master Chief for the first ten missions on Alpha Halo, which have been updated with sharper visuals, new cinematics, streamlined controls, and better level flow.

A entirely new three-mission story arc called Operation Meteorite picks up the pace shortly before the classic campaign begins. Master Chief and Sgt. Johnson team up for a stealthy UNSC strike on a Covenant research ship, and what appears to be a routine raid suddenly turns into much more, with Brute Berserkers, new maps, and new armaments acquired from around the Halo world. Add in award-winning novelist Troy Denning, and a companion short tale titled Halo Hungry Buzzards lays the groundwork for the upcoming story.

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The Halo Studios development team used Unreal Engine 5, giving the regions we know and love from the previous game a major polish, making them look and feel more beautiful than ever, while preserving the sense of scale and mystery that defined the first encounter with the ringworld. Refreshed sequences include all-new motion capture and new speech from your favorite cast members. We recently saw footage of the game operating on the PS5 Pro, which served as a nice reminder of the game’s cross-platform nature.

Gameplay is getting a nice boost without sacrificing the basic gameplay players are familiar with. Nine more weapons have been added to the original list, giving you even more ways to fight. Vehicles have also been updated; you may now hijack and drive a Wraith tank, and the Warthog now has room for one more buddy in the back, making co-op play easier. The sound design has been totally overhauled, and the music has been redone to make it feel even more epic.

Skulls return in greater numbers than any previous Halo campaign. Optional modifiers can have a substantial impact on weaponry, enemy placements, the player’s abilities, and the environment. They’re a significant draw for people who do solo runs or team up in multiplayer, and campaign replays will keep you coming back. Players can join online for co-op play with up to four other players, with seamless cross-play and shared progression available on Xbox Series X and S, PC, and PlayStation 5. On consoles, you can also play with a friend in a local 2-player split screen mode. This patch excludes competitive multiplayer modes. The entire focus is on creating an refined campaign experience.

The game will be available globally on July 28th at 8am PDT, however in some Asia-Pacific locations, you may have to wait until July 29th. Premium versions have a 5-day head start on July 23rd. If you own an Xbox or a PC, you can utilize the Xbox Play Anywhere function to smoothly switch between the two without paying more. The regular version costs $49.99 and includes both the complete campaign and the bonus missions.

The premium edition costs $69.99 and includes an extra 5 days of early access, an armory pack with extra armor and weapon skins, a digital artbook, and a story collection. The Collector’s Edition costs $199.99 and includes the armory pack, the artbook, the story collection, a 12″ Dark Horse Master Chief statue, a light-up Cortana chip, steelbook case, physical art prints, a fancy new manual, and a game disc.

Sumesh Sasidharan of the Faculty of Medicine at Aix-Marseille University explores how transformations in medtech may not impact all patients equally.

AI-powered digital twin technology could transform how doctors understand and treat heart disease. But if the medical data used to build these virtual models overlook biological differences between women and men, the promise of truly personalised medicine may remain incomplete.

Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape how doctors study and treat heart disease. One of the most ambitious ideas is the ‘digital twin’, a computer model built from a patient’s medical data that allows researchers to simulate how a disease might develop and how treatments might work.

In cardiology, these models combine medical imaging, clinical records and biological data to create a virtual version of the heart. In the future, doctors could potentially test treatment strategies on this digital model before applying them to the patient.

But an important scientific question is emerging: What if the medical data used to build these models are missing important biological differences between women and men?

As digital health technologies move closer to clinical practice, ensuring these tools reflect the full diversity of human biology is becoming increasingly important.

In our research at Aix Marseille University on patient-specific computational models of inflammatory heart disease (MYOCAR3 funded by Civis Alliance), we are beginning to see how differences in immune responses between women and men could influence how these diseases develop and how they might appear in future digital models.

The promise of digital twins in heart medicine

Digital twins are attracting growing attention across Europe as a way to advance precision medicine.

Instead of treating patients based on average responses observed in large populations, researchers hope to build personalised models that capture the unique biological characteristics of each individual. Several European initiatives are exploring this approach.

The European Virtual Human Twin Initiative, supported by the European Commission, aims to accelerate the development of digital twin technologies for healthcare. Other projects, such as SimCardioTest, focus on building patient-specific cardiovascular models to improve diagnosis and treatment planning.

These efforts bring together engineers, clinicians and data scientists to better understand complex heart diseases. But the success of these models depends heavily on one crucial factor: the quality and representativeness of the data used to build them.

When medical data fails to represent everyone

Over the past decade, researchers have increasingly recognised that biomedical research has sometimes treated male biology as the default.

A widely cited analysis published in Nature reported that male animals historically outnumbered females by roughly five to one in many preclinical studies.

In cardiovascular medicine, this imbalance matters.

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, responsible for nearly 18 million deaths each year, according to the World Health Organization.

Yet heart disease does not affect women and men in exactly the same way. Symptoms, disease mechanisms and responses to treatment can differ.

Inflammatory heart disease provides a striking example. Myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, can occur after viral infections and, in rare cases, after vaccination.

Global estimates suggest that myocarditis affects around 1.8 million people each year and occurs two to four times more frequently in men than in women, particularly among young adults.

Research published in journals such as Circulation suggests that these differences may be linked to variations in immune responses, hormonal influences and cardiac tissue biology.

For scientists developing digital heart models, this raises an important question: if datasets do not fully capture these biological differences, can digital twins accurately reproduce how the disease behaves in different patients?

From sex differences to gender-sensitive medicine

These concerns are part of a broader shift in biomedical research towards what is known as sex and gender-sensitive medicine.

This emerging field recognises that both biological sex and sociocultural gender factors influence health, disease progression and responses to treatment.

Researchers are increasingly working to integrate these dimensions into medical research, clinical practice and healthcare education.

For example, the University Hospital Zurich Heart Center has developed consultations dedicated to gender-sensitive cardiology. Researchers analyse international datasets, identify patterns across large patient cohorts and generate new clinical data to better understand how sex and gender influence cardiovascular disease.

At the same time, European scientific collaborations are working to strengthen how sex differences are considered in research.

The European Initiative COST Action EU-SABV is the first Europe-wide effort that focuses on improving how “sex as a biological variable” is integrated into biomedical research, helping ensure studies produce findings that are both rigorous and relevant for diverse patient populations.

Together, these efforts aim to generate better data sets, the essential foundation for reliable digital health technologies.

Building better digital medicine

Digital twins represent one of the most exciting frontiers in cardiovascular medicine. In the future, these models could allow doctors to simulate disease progression, test therapies virtually and tailor treatments to individual patients.

But the promise of digital medicine ultimately depends on the data that shape these models.

If those data fail to reflect biological differences between women and men, even the most advanced algorithms may miss part of the picture.

Ensuring that digital twins reflect the full diversity of human biology will, therefore, be essential. Only then can these technologies fulfil their promise of truly personalised medicine, not for an ‘average’ patient, but for every patient.

Sumesh Sasidharan

Sumesh Sasidharan is a biomedical engineer and senior researcher at Aix-Marseille University‘s Faculty of Medicine and a CIVIS3i Laureate, funded by the European Union. He was ranked among the top selected candidates globally and is the first Indian researcher to receive this prestigious fellowship. His research focuses on developing patient-specific computational models and digital twin frameworks for inflammatory heart diseases, with particular emphasis on acute myocarditis and immune-mediated cardiotoxicity. 

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K-12 education is navigating an AI landscape that is shifting faster than most school policies can keep up, and teachers are getting caught in the middle. Join us on This Week with EdSurge where we look at new data on where ed tech decision makers actually stand on AI adoption, and hear from a leading expert on what it would take to bring educators meaningfully into the conversation.

Districts Are All In on AI, But Their Budgets Are Not.

A new report suggests that districts are moving on AI faster than many expected, but the infrastructure needed to do it responsibly is struggling to keep up. EdSurge reporter Lauren Coffey digs into the latest CoSN State of Ed Tech report, which finds that three-quarters of districts now have AI guidelines in place, a notable jump from just a year ago. The same report, however, surfaces a harder question: as schools move faster, who is making sure the tools and systems they are building on are actually secure, accessible, and ready?

82 Percent of Teachers Have Received No Formal AI Guidance. Here’s Why.

A new survey from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation finds that the vast majority of teachers have not received formal guidance on how to use AI in their work, and about a third have gotten none. Joseph South, Chief Innovation Officer at ISTE+ASCD, joins the show to unpack what is driving the disconnect and what schools can do about it. South points to a combination of factors: AI was not part of most teacher preparation programs, administrators are hesitant to lead with something they do not fully understand yet, and schools are already stretched thin. Two districts are starting to show what is possible, and South thinks the path forward is more accessible than most administrators assume.

The districts getting this right have a head start. Find out what they are doing and whether yours can do the same. Listen to the episode.

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“Nostalgia becomes dangerous if it prevents a business from improving,” says 3rd-gen director Alvin Say

There are restaurants you eat at, and restaurants you grow up in. Jack’s Place, for many Singaporeans, is firmly the latter.

Most Singaporeans would recognise its green-and-white checkered tablecloths anywhere. You might even remember the sizzle of a steak arriving at your table, or servers weaving between diners with gravy boats in hand.

This year, the homegrown chain celebrates its 60th anniversary. Any restaurant that survives six decades is remarkable. One that remains emotionally meaningful across multiple generations is something else entirely.

Vulcan Post spoke with Alvin Say, third-generation owner at Jack’s Place, about the brand’s evolution over the decades.

A cook boy’s unlikely inheritance

The Jack’s Place story begins with an immigrant who arrived with little and built something lasting through sheer grit and skill.

Say Lip Hai came from Hainan and found work as a cook boy for British troops stationed in Sembawang, where he learned the foundations of Western cooking—roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, rich gravies, the rhythms of classic British-style dining.

By the 1960s, he was running his own venture, Cola Restaurant, when a chance encounter changed everything.

A British housewife, impressed by his food, introduced him to her husband, Jack Hunt, who owned a pub and restaurant called Jack’s Place along Killiney Road. Lip Hai was invited to manage the catering and restaurant operations.

When Jack eventually returned to England in 1974, he sold the business to Lip Hai for S$28,000.

As the new owner, Say began reshaping the business. The pub gradually gave way to a restaurant, and while it initially leaned towards Italian influences, other culinary traditions soon found their way onto the menu. French cuisine, in particular, left a lasting mark.

In its early years, the restaurant’s S$3.80 set lunches became a hit with oil rig workers and office employees along Orchard Road. Lip Hai, committed to using fresh ingredients, would personally head to the market each morning on his Vespa to source supplies.

The restaurant’s 60-seater outlet at Killiney Road quickly outgrew itself. In 1977, Lip Hai opened a second outlet at the former Yen San Building. When queues formed at Killiney, he would even ferry waiting customers to the new location down the road.

Jack’s Place also doubled as a lively watering hole in those years. The bar counter was often packed, and Lip Hai would order whiskey by the hundred. Though closing time was officially 11PM, service frequently ran late to accommodate late-night regulars.

Jack’s Place had over 15 outlets at its peak

As Singapore’s HDB new towns expanded in the 1980s and ’90s, Jack’s Place followed suit. Its first heartland outlet opened in Ang Mo Kio and remains the brand’s oldest outlet today.

The restaurant’s positioning was deliberate: dependable, familiar, and welcoming.

Back then, Western dining still carried an air of novelty and occasion. Jack’s Place wanted to create a space that didn’t feel intimidating or exclusive—a place where ordinary families could enjoy a Western meal comfortably.

At its peak, the chain operated more than 15 outlets across the island, becoming a familiar presence in neighbourhood malls and town centres.

In 2008, the family formalised its business under a corporate umbrella, JP Pepperdine Group. Alongside the flagship Jack’s Place steakhouse brand, the group expanded its portfolio with Eatzi Gourmet, a halal-certified arm that spans steakhouses and a catering division.

A family business across generations

Today, the business is managed by the second and third generations of Lip Hai’s family, alongside a team of long-serving professionals.

Alvin frames his role as stewardship rather than ownership. “We see ourselves less as owners and more as stewards of the brand,” he says. “Every generation has a responsibility to protect what people love about Jack’s Place, while making sure it stays relevant for the next generation of diners.”

That stewardship comes with its own tensions. Members of the third generation were encouraged to gain experience elsewhere before returning to the family business—a deliberate choice to ensure fresh perspectives.

You are not just managing a company. You are managing something tied to your family history and identity.

Alvin Say, Director of Jack’s Place, JP Pepperdine Group

When generational disagreements arise, the tie-breaker is always the same question: what is genuinely better for the customer?

As Jack’s Place is often associated with nostalgia, Alvin takes a measured view when asked whether it is an asset or a liability.

 “It can be both,” he said. “Nostalgia is valuable because it creates emotional trust that newer brands cannot easily replicate, but it becomes dangerous if it prevents a business from improving.”

“We don’t want to become a brand that people only remember fondly from the past. We want to remain part of people’s present-day lives as well.”

That tension between preserving heritage and avoiding stagnation is one Jack’s Place has had to navigate carefully.

Some elements of the menu have remained largely unchanged for decades: sizzling steaks on cow-shaped hotplates, lobster bisque, baked potatoes. These are not just signature dishes; they are emotional touchpoints. Change them too much, and you risk erasing the memories that bring customers back.

At the same time, dining habits have shifted significantly. Today’s customers are more health-conscious, more visually driven, and far more attuned to global food trends.

They are no longer comparing Jack’s Place only with other steakhouses, but with cafés, lifestyle concepts, and a wave of well-capitalised overseas brands—particularly from China—that have entered Singapore with aggressive pricing and polished social media playbooks.

“Many of these brands move very quickly,” Alvin observes. “They operate with strong capital backing and are highly aggressive in pricing, marketing, and expansion.”

Playing the long game

To keep up with Singapore’s challenging F&B industry, operations have changed significantly behind the scenes, from technology and food safety systems to supply chain management and central kitchen support.

While continuing to protect the classics, the brand has also gradually introduced newer ideas and offerings to appeal to today’s diners.

COVID-19 was a defining moment of reinvention. With dining rooms closed, Jack’s Place had to pivot its entire business toward delivery and ready-to-eat meals almost overnight.

“It forced us to accelerate a decade’s worth of digital transformation into a few months,” Alvin shared. The shift was painful, but it proved the organisation could move faster than it had believed.

Historically, the brand has also weathered multiple economic downturns by staying lean and anchored to its core identity as a value-for-money family destination.

Part of Jack’s Place’s longevity, Alvin said, is not accidental. It comes from taking a long-term view.

While the chain operates around 12 outlets today, down from a peak of more than 15, growth is no longer defined by outlet count.

Instead, the focus has shifted to something harder to measure: strengthening the experience, improving consistency, and earning relevance with a new generation of diners who did not grow up eating their first steak at Jack’s Place—but who might, given the right reason to walk through the door.

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• Read other articles we’ve written on Singaporean businesses here.

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Code sleuths are diving into iOS 27 and finding hints about the unreleased iPhone Fold, and finding subroutines that report just how open or shut the foldable might be.

Apple does its best to hide any code that might give away some future product, but it isn’t always perfect. Code references in iOS 27 show some of what Apple is preparing for the upcoming iPhone Fold.

Even though there hasn’t been a single component leak or information about mass production starting, some believe iPhone Fold is still coming in September. These bits of code certainly suggest Apple is working to release iPhone Fold, but say little else.

iOS 27 framework references “foldState” and “angleDegrees” but I’m sure that’s nothing pic.twitter.com/PcYNVvymms

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The code shared by the social media user shows items for “foldState,” “angleDegrees,” and a reference to the number of present hardware displays. These are all clear references to the existence of an iPhone Fold.

Of course, there have been rumors, patents, and various dummy units confirming an iPhone Fold has been in the works since at least 2019. This is the first instance of iOS directly referencing the future foldable, which means it could be imminent.

However, Apple has feature flags meant for operating systems that are years away, so the discovered code could also provide nothing in terms of the release timeline. Time will tell if the product will actually be ready for its expected September debut.

OpenAI has filed confidential paperwork for an initial public offering, the company announced on Monday, kicking off what could be a monthslong process toward debuting on a US stock exchange. The move makes it the third company to file for what could be a trillion-dollar IPO this year.

Tech companies pursuing the most powerful AI models, including publicly traded giants Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft, are hungry for tens of billions dollars each to build out more data centers and recruit scientists to grow their services.

An IPO would be yet another fundraising opportunity for OpenAI after the company privately raised $122 billion in March. Going public, which brings many workers closer to a life-altering payday and increases transparency about a business’ financial health, could also boost employee morale and customer confidence as OpenAI tries to regain its position as the clear front-runner in frontier AI.

OpenAI did not specify timing for the IPO nor how much it plans to raise. “We recently submitted a confidential S-1,” the company said in an unsigned, one-paragraph blog post. “We expect it to leak so we’re just announcing it. We have not decided on timing yet; it may be a while because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company. But it’s a complicated set of tradeoffs and this gives us the option to go public sooner if that ends up being best.”

OpenAI declined to comment further. But by having paperwork ready, the company could draft off a potentially successful debut by Anthropic. If the rival runs into any challenges, OpenAI could hold off and recalibrate.

A Three-Way Race

Anthropic, which was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees, filed its confidential IPO paperwork on June 1. Just days before the filing, Anthropic’s latest fundraising brought its valuation to $965 billion, topping OpenAI’s $852 billion mark—both record-breaking figures in the world of tech venture capital. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which makes rockets, sells satellite internet, and also develops some of the world’s most capable AI models, publicly filed its IPO papers last month.

The IPOs could value each of these companies at over $1 trillion despite all of them being unprofitable and having roughly 80 percent to 90 percent lower sales than nearly every existing trillion-dollar public company. The only IPO to have broken the $1 trillion mark was oil company Saudi Aramco in 2019.

OpenAI’s revenue from subscriptions, ads, and service fees grew to somewhere between $10 billion and $20 billion last year, according to previous company disclosures. But it spent far more money on cloud computing and thousands of staff, leading to billions of dollars in losses. In recent months, the company has carried out several restructurings due to executive illnesses and an attempt to focus on fewer projects.

OpenAI executives have debated for months whether the company is prepared to go public, according to two people familiar with the matter but not authorized to discuss confidential information. At one point last year, OpenAI was targeting an IPO in late 2027 or early 2028, according to another person familiar with the discussions.

Last week, President Donald Trump said his administration would look into the possibility of the US government taking a stake in AI companies as they go public. OpenAI has discussed the idea for months as a way to broaden public benefits of AI development, according to one of the people familiar with company discussions. An OpenAI blog post coauthored by CEO Sam Altman on Monday said “a good AI future” requires that “many people, companies, communities, and countries can build, benefit, and hold power.”

Legal Challenges

In 2019, OpenAI created a for-profit subsidiary to allow it to fundraise vastly more sums than it believed people would be willing to donate. Today, the nonprofit owns roughly 25 percent, or more than $200 billion, of the company. It also has the power to block major business decisions and fire the company’s executives. Undoing the nonprofit is legally challenging.

Recently, OpenAI cleared a major hurdle on the road to its IPO by defeating a lawsuit brought by Musk, which accused the ChatGPT-maker of straying from its nonprofit mission. Musk’s claims were dismissed last month after a federal judge and jury ruled that he filed his lawsuit too late.

Can’t a multi-trillion-dollar company have secrets any more?