stores and selling more phones. it overtook apple as the second most popular smartphone maker in china during the first quarter of the year the company s iphone sales rose 52% compared to a year ago. it s according to data from a research company affiliated with the chinese government. that entity, the titan democrat doesn t track apple specifically. instead it measures the increase in foreign branded shipments. but in the foreign branded game, apple is the main player. and apple is the main player. and apple could see more gains from may it s been discounting select models which could lead to more sales. openai has formed a new safety committee responsible for evaluating its artificial intelligence models. the oversight teams first task will be to assess openai s current safety practices over the next 90 days, before giving their recommendations to the board. once the board has reviewed the findings, openai will share them publicly. all this comes as the company begins