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July 8, 2025, 9:50 AM
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Ruoming Pang, the head of Apple's foundation models team, is leaving to join Meta, which offered a package worth tens of millions of dollars per year  —  Ruoming Pang, a distinguished engineer and manager in charge of the company's Apple foundation models team, is departing, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Bluesky rolls out Activity Notifications, letting users get push notifications about new posts and replies from specific accounts, as it doubles down on sports  —  A new update has also added much more control over which notifications users will see, and who can trigger them.
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest US teachers' union, says it will open an AI training hub with $23M from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic  —  The American Federation of Teachers said it would use the $23 million, including $500,000 from the A.I. start-up Anthropic, to create a national training center.
Laura Onita / Financial Times:
M&S Chair Archie Norman tells UK parliament that M&S used the FBI and UK agencies to combat the May cyberattack and says M&S believes DragonForce was behind it  —  Chair Archie Norman tells parliamentarians retailer believes Dragon Force was criminal gang behind attack
Reuters:
Samsung projects Q2 operating profit down 56% YoY to $3.3B, below $4.5B est., due to struggles in its chip business stemming from the US' China export controls  —  Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) on Tuesday projected a 56% drop in second-quarter operating profit from a year earlier …
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
OnePlus launches five products: the midrange €449 Nord 5 smartphone, the €349 Nord CE 5, a smaller €299 Watch 3, the €119 Buds 4, and the €229 Pad Lite tablet  —  The Nord 5 and Nord CE 5 phones, and the Pad Lite tablet, are all headed to Europe.
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
France-based chipmaker SiPearl raised a €130M Series A from Taiwan's Cathay Venture and others to develop its ARM-based Rhea1 AI chip, set to feature 80 cores  —  European Union-backed chipmaker SiPearl has raised €130 million ($152 million) from investors including Taiwan's Cathay Venture …
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
As Amazon Prime Day begins, some merchants say they can't afford to offer discounts due to Trump's tariffs; Adobe expects $23.8B in sales across the four days  —  Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime Day is slamming into President Donald Trump's trade war, with ever-shifting tariffs prompting some brands …

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Associated Press:
Judge Timothy Kelly heard arguments in the lawsuit over White House access for three news outlets but didn't immediately rule on a restraining order request

A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
Over 120 journalists at Business Insider and Politico signed on to a letter protesting parent company Axel Springer's decision to honor Peter Thiel on Thursday

Hannah Fingerhut / Associated Press:
An Iowa judge dismisses Trump's lawsuit accusing The Des Moines Register and pollster J. Ann Selzer of misrepresenting the state of the 2024 presidential race

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Kate Clark / Bloomberg:
An open letter signed by 602 founders, VCs, and more urges Sequoia act after Shaun Maguire said Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything”
Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg:
Quantum computing company IonQ raised $1B via a sale of stock and warrants to Heights Capital Management, an affiliate of Susquehanna International Group
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
A look at various responses to AI companies' scraping, including open source Anubis that uses cryptographic JavaScript challenges and Cloudflare's “link mazes”
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
In iOS 26 beta 3, Apple dials back the degree of transparency in many UI elements, following user complaints about its new Liquid Glass design language

Earlier Picks

Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Epic reaches a settlement with Samsung, which it sued over allegedly conspiring with Google to undermine third party app stores
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Jack Dorsey shares TestFlight and GitHub links to his “weekend project”, Bitchat, a decentralized P2P messaging iOS app that relies on Bluetooth mesh networks
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump announces 25% tariffs on Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia, 32% for Indonesia, 36% for Cambodia and Thailand, 40% for Laos and Myanmar, starting August 1
Sri Muppidi / The Information:
Document: OpenAI told investors stock compensation jumped over 5x in 2024 to $4.4B, or 119% of its total revenue, but expects it to drop to under 10% by 2030
Dana Wollman / Bloomberg:
CoreWeave says it has agreed to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific in a ~$9B all-stock deal, set to close in Q4 2025, to expand its AI data center capacity
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