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July 4, 2025, 8:30 PM
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President Trump signs the One Big Beautiful Bill, which allows immediate deduction of US software labor; foreign R&D still must be amortized over 15 years  —  Today, the House passed the Senate's version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), marking a significant overhaul to federal tax policy.
Jordan Blum / Fortune:
How the One Big Beautiful Bill, which Trump signed on July 4, could cost the US the AI race by handicapping efforts to meet data center power demands
Bloomberg:
Daniel Gross leaves Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded with Ilya Sutskever, to join Meta's new superintelligence lab and work on AI products  —  Daniel Gross, the former chief executive officer and co-founder of artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc. …
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta offers to buy up to 49% of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross' VC firm NFDG, which has invested about half of its first fund of ~$1.1B, raised in 2023
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Doc: UK's Independent Publishers Alliance files an antitrust complaint with EU and the UK CMA against Google, alleging misuse of web content for AI Overviews  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google has been hit by an EU antitrust complaint over its AI Overviews from a group of independent publishers …
Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Samsung is delaying the completion of its Texas fab due to a lack of customers; the plant was meant to come online in 2024, but has been pushed to 2026  —  SEOUL/TAIPEI — Samsung Electronics is delaying completion of a semiconductor factory in the U.S. state of Texas …
Brian O'Donovan / RTÉ:
Meta says it backs proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media, calling it “effective”  —  Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has said it supports proposals for a common digital majority age across EU member states.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The European Commission says it won't pause the rollout of its AI Act, after Alphabet, Meta, Mistral, ASML, and others urged the EU to delay the rules by years  —  The European Union's landmark rules on artificial intelligence will be implemented according to the timeline agreed by legislators …
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Sam Altman says he believes in “techno-capitalism” and is “politically homeless” as Democrats no longer encourage a “culture of innovation and entrepreneurship”  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X Friday, saying he finds himself “politically homeless” …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban  —  In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
As companies like SpaceX, Stripe, and OpenAI stay private longer, tokenized stocks on blockchains offer a way for the public to access lucrative private markets  —  Also BlackRock and privates, Vanguard and privates, the Paramount settlement and Enron 2.0.  —  ‘Tokenization’
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Counterpoint Research: iPhone sales in China grew 8% YoY in Q2 2025, boosted by discounts, the first time Apple has recorded growth in China since Q2 2023  —  Apple iPhone sales in China rose in the second quarter of the year for the first time in two years, Counterpoint Research said …

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A federal judge has dismissed an antitrust challenge to Paramount's WBD acquisition brought by a group of consumers, but allows them to file a revised complaint

Susie Banikarim / Columbia Journalism Review:
Immediately after the Chattanooga Times Free Press was sold to a local freight exec, over 50 employees were laid off and 10 chose to leave, out of 128 staffers

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump names Danielle Thumann, an adviser to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, to serve as an FCC commissioner; if confirmed, she'd bring the Republican majority to 3-1

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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
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Will Oremus / Washington Post:
An interview with X VP of Product Keith Coleman about plans to let developers program AI agents to propose Community Notes, humans doing the rating, and more
Cameron Faulkner / The Verge:
Xbox says Arrowhead Game Studios' Helldivers 2 will debut on the Xbox Series X and S on August 26 for $40, the first PlayStation-published title to come to Xbox
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