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Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg:
Apple commits to spending another $100B on US manufacturing and announces a new manufacturing program designed to bring more of Apple's supply chain to the US  —  Apple Inc. committed to spending another $100 billion on domestic manufacturing ahead of an event with President Donald Trump …
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Apple:
Apple commits $2.5B to produce all iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass at Corning's Kentucky facility, part of its plan to invest $600B in the US over four years  —  The new $2.5 billion commitment from Apple is part of the company's expanded plan to invest $600 billion in the U.S. over the next four years
Bloomberg:
President Trump says he will impose a “tariff of approximately 100% on chips and semiconductors”, exempting firms like Apple that “committed to build” in the US  —  Donald Trump declared plans to slap a 100% tariff on semiconductor imports yet promised to exempt companies …
Liz Reid / The Keyword:
Google says total organic click volume from Search to websites has been “relatively stable” YoY and it's sending “slightly more quality clicks” than a year ago  —  We continue to send billions of clicks to the web every day and are committed to prioritizing the web in our AI experiences in Search.
Bloomberg:
A US jury finds Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm guilty of conspiring to run an unlicensed money-transfer operation that laundered $1B+ via Tornado Cash  —  A co-founder of Tornado Cash was convicted of conspiring to run an unlicensed money-transfer operation that laundered …
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company:
Google unveils a Guided Learning mode within its Gemini chatbot to help students and commits $1B over three years to AI education and training efforts in the US  —  Just in time for the new school year, Google has introduced a tool called Guided Learning within its Gemini chatbot.
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google launches its asynchronous coding agent Jules out of beta, with a free plan capped at 15 daily tasks and higher limits for Google AI Pro and Ultra users  —  Google on Wednesday launched its AI coding agent, Jules, out of beta, just over two months after its public preview debut in May.
Bloomberg:
OpenAI offers ChatGPT for enterprise to US federal agencies at a nominal cost of $1 per year, to boost its adoption after the US GSA approved OpenAI as a vendor  —  OpenAI is providing access to its ChatGPT product to US federal agencies at a nominal cost of $1 a year as part of a push to get its AI chatbot more widely adopted.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney says it is “fully integrating” Hulu into Disney+, plans to launch a “unified” Disney+ and Hulu app in 2026 and migrate Hulu's live TV subscribers to Fubo  —  Hulu will replace the Star brand on Disney+ internationally this fall
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Disney plans to launch its new flagship sports streaming service ESPN on August 21 for $29.99 per month, or $35.99 per month when bundled with Disney+ and Hulu
Laura Benitez / Bloomberg:
Apollo Global agrees to acquire a majority stake in Stream Data Centers, which builds, leases, and operates data center campuses, in its first such acquisition  —  Takeaways by Bloomberg AI  —  Hide … Tell us how AI is shaping your news experience.  Share your feedback
Deborah Mary Sophia / Reuters:
Shopify reports Q2 revenue up 31% YoY to $2.68B, above $2.55B est., GMV up 31% YoY to $87.84B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates; SHOP closes up 22%  —  Shopify on Wednesday forecast upbeat quarterly revenue, saying there was no slowdown in consumer demand yet and sellers on its platform …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Instagram now lets users repost public Reels and grid posts from other accounts, collected in a designated tab, and adds a Snapchat-like, opt-in maps feature  —  The platform is adding a TikTok-like reposting feature. … Instagram is getting several new features that pull from competitors …
Will Knight / Wired:
Sources: NIST withheld publishing an AI safety report and several other AI documents at the end of Biden's term to avoid clashing with the Trump administration  —  The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models just before Donald Trump's second term …
Bloomberg:
Amazon plans to make OpenAI's new gpt-oss open-weight models available on Bedrock and SageMaker, the first time it has offered OpenAI's models to AWS customers  —  Amazon.com Inc. plans to make OpenAI's latest artificial intelligence models available to customers, the first time the cloud computing giant …
Reece Rogers / Wired:
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: ABC extended Jimmy Kimmel's deal until May 2027; the deal was reached months ago, but the announcement was delayed out of respect for Stephen Colbert

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Source: Piers Morgan's YouTube-based venture Uncensored is raising £22.5M from The Raine Group, Theo Kyriakou, and others at a £97M pre-money valuation

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: Anderson Cooper has signed a new deal with CNN

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George Hammond / Financial Times:
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Matt Burgess / Wired:
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The Guardian:
Investigation: Israel's Unit 8200 built a system using Microsoft Azure that collects recordings of millions of phone calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank

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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports; Uber only disclosed 12,522 reports during the period
David Reber Jr / NVIDIA:
Nvidia says its GPUs do not contain backdoors, kill switches, or spyware, and hard-coded, single-point controls like kill switches undermine trust in US tech
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft unveils Project Ire, a prototype AI system that can reverse engineer and identify malicious software autonomously, without human assistance
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