Today's tech highlights: Meta's 'Mirror Lake' XR headset, Google's Gemini AI model, Apple's MLX for ML on Apple Silicon, AMD's MI300 Series vs. NVIDIA, and Stable Diffusion XL Turbo for rapid AI image creation.

CEO Sam Altman was fired and then brought back. New leaders joined, and the company made a big AI discovery.

In today's rapid news summary, we cover a spectrum of groundbreaking developments: a leadership crisis at OpenAI questioning AI's future, NVIDIA's leap in AI technology with its new GPUs, Google's legal battle against malware scams, the EU's transformative iPhone sideloading rules, the tech giants' collaborative push for transparent cloud costs with FOCUS, and Samara's innovative tiny houses addressing the housing crisis. These stories highlight pivotal moments in technology, policy, and corporate strategy.