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AI NewsApple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe
Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe
3:07 AM IST · October 11, 2026

Apple revealed ina regulatory filingthat it has reached an agreement to bring on team members and technology from personalized audio startup Huxe, in whatâs commonly known as a reverse acqui-hire deal. As firstreported in MacRumors, Apple disclosed to the European Commission that it has agreed to make employment offers to âcertain employees of Huxe AI,â and to âreceive a non-exclusive license to Huxeâs intellectual property rights.â Reverse acqui-hires emerged in recent years as a way for larger companies tohire key team members and license technologyfrom startups without acquiring the startups outright â presumably allowing them to build up AI talent and tech without drawing as much antitrust scrutiny. (Confusingly, these deals have both beenreferred to as âreverse acqui-hiresâ and as plain old âacqui-hires.â) In the case of Huxe, the startup was founded by developers whoâd previously worked onthe AI-generated podcast featuresin NotebookLM (recentlyrenamed Gemini Notebook). But Huxe announced on May 21 thatit was shutting down, with the team posting onthe Huxe websitethat the company would be removing its app from the Apple and Google stores, halting service, and deleting user data. âThe team is moving on to new things, and we wonât be continuing development of the product,â the company said. It also thanked its users, saying, âThe fact that you used it, told friends about it, sent us your suggestions and your ideas, made it feel like we built it together.â On June 9, shortly after Huxeâs announcement, Apple notified the European Commission of its deal. The filing does not say who received employment offers or if they accepted. Nor does it disclose anything about Appleâs plans. Possibly related: Huxeâs shutdown announcement came just a day afterSpotify unveiled AI-powered podcast generation features of its own, so Apple could be hoping to add similar functionality to its Podcasts app. Tech executives seem enamored with the idea thatpersonalized audio can replace regular podcasts(and maybe evenparent-child interaction?), though itâs not clear how many normal listeners agree.
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