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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Sony sues Tencent for copyright and trademark infringement in California federal court, accusing the Chinese tech giant of ripping off its Horizon game series  —  Sony Interactive (6758.T) has sued Tencent (0700.HK) for copyright and trademark infringement in California federal court …
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft Edge adds Copilot Mode, an experimental feature that tries to make browsing an agentic AI experience, even anticipating links to click, free for now  —  Copilot Mode in Microsoft Edge is a new experimental feature that transforms the browser into an agentic AI experience, but it's only free for a limited time.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Anthropic plans to debut new rate limits for Claude Pro and Max on August 28, likely curbing <5% of users, saying some run Code “continuously in the background”  —  Anthropic says its rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude to curb usage among subscribers who are running …
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
A second security breach at women's safety app Tea exposes 1.1M+ user messages, dating from early 2023 up to last week, many containing sensitive information  —  A second, major security issue with women's dating safety app Tea has exposed much more user data than the first breach we first reported …
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
Google will roll out AI Mode in the UK in the coming days after launching in the US and India; the optional feature will appear as a tab and in the search box  —  Google is rolling out a new tool in the UK that will generate results using artificial intelligence (AI), in a significant shake-up to the world's most popular search engine.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google Chrome debuts AI-generated store reviews to US shoppers, letting users click an icon left of the URL to show a popup with store reputation information
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Cadence Design agrees to plead guilty and pay more than $140M to resolve US charges for selling its chip design products to a Chinese military university  —  Cadence Design (CDNS.O) agreed to plead guilty and pay more than $140 million to resolve U.S. charges for selling its chip design products …
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Julius AI, which acts like a data scientist by analyzing data and running predictive models from natural language prompts, raised a $10M seed led by Bessemer  —  Julius AI, a startup that describes itself as an AI data analyst, announced it has raised a $10 million seed round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify reports Q2 revenue up 10% YoY to €4.2B, MAUs up 11% YoY to 696M, subscribers up 12% YoY to 276M, and an €86M net loss; SPOT falls 5%+ pre-market  —  The audio streaming service added more listeners than it had forecast, but reported a net loss for the second quarter
Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the US DOJ fired two of its most senior antitrust enforcers after disagreements related to defusing its lawsuit against HPE over its $14B Juniper deal  —  Dismissals come after disagreements over settling case against HPE, which hired allies of President Trump

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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
A US judge rules that Trump must turn over detailed financial information of 400+ companies owned by a family trust in his defamation suit against the BBC

Dan Shanoff / The Athletic:
Nielsen: the 2026 World Cup final drew 38.9M viewers on Fox and 22M+ on Telemundo; taken together, the US audience size rivaled that of NFL playoff games

Variety:
WGA seeks an injunction to bar Paramount and WBD from “closing or consummating” their merger or “taking any steps to integrate or consolidate their operations”

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Canalys:
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Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu and that has raised $1.5B from Tencent and others, releases GLM-4.5, an open-source AI model that it says is cheaper than DeepSeek
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Imax partners with Runway AI to screen 10 films selected as finalists in the company's AI Film Festival at 10 Imax locations across the US
Emily Mason / Bloomberg:
PayPal unveils Pay With Crypto for merchants to accept bitcoin, ether, USDT, and more via Coinbase, OKX, and other wallets, rolling out in the coming weeks
Bloomberg:
Samsung unveils a $16.5B chip deal with Tesla that runs through the end of 2033; Elon Musk says the deal is to make Tesla's next-gen AI6 chips in Taylor, Texas
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