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Elon Musk says that Apple “makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI” to top its App Store, an “antitrust violation”, and xAI will take legal action — Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday his artificial intelligence startup xAI would take legal action against Apple …
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Epic says it is bringing Fortnite back to iOS in Australia “at a date to be determined”, after a judge ruled Apple and Google's app stores are anticompetitive — Apple and Google's losses in Australian antitrust cases could be a win for Epic Games.| ABC: |
An Australian federal judge rules Apple and Google engaged in anticompetitive conduct by misusing their app store market power, but rejects Epic's other claims — By national consumer affairs reporter Michael Atkin and the Specialist Reporting Team's Melanie Vujkovic
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Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal — With its unsolicited bid for Google's browser, AI startup seeks to take advantage of uncertainty over pending antitrust ruling
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Anthropic signs a deal to offer Claude to US lawmakers for $1/year, following OpenAI; a source says Google is in talks to offer Gemini on similarly cheap terms — Group follows rival OpenAI in making enterprise tools available to government branches — Anthropic will offer its Claude chatbot … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese authorities urge local companies to avoid using less advanced US chips, particularly Nvidia's H20s, for government or national security work — Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks global trade. Sign up here. — Beijing has urged local companies …
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Q&A with AMD CEO Lisa Su on AI accelerators, US manufacturing, becoming AMD's CEO in 2014, OpenAI, Tesla, xAI, China, ROCm, aiming to surpass Nvidia, and more — While everyone else has been talking about Nvidia's GPUs, Lisa Su has discreetly turned AMD into a chipmaking phenom.| Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
In US court, Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon says he will plead guilty to charges of conspiracy and wire fraud under an agreement with prosecutors — Terraform Labs Pte. co-founder Do Kwon pleaded guilty to charges in a US fraud prosecution tied to the $40 billion collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin in 2022.| Skylar Woodhouse / Bloomberg: |
President Trump meets with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and says his Cabinet members would continue talks with him in the coming days, after calling for his resignation — President Donald Trump said members of his Cabinet would continue discussions with Lip-Bu Tan in the coming days after meeting …
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Circle reports Q2 revenue up 53% YoY to $658M, USDC circulation up 90% YoY to $61.3B, a $482M net loss, and unveils Arc, a stablecoin-focused Layer 1 blockchain — - Circle is planning to launch a stablecoin-focused EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain called Arc.
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How Larry Ellison is focusing his philanthropic efforts on the Oxford-based, for-profit Ellison Institute of Technology, promising to spend £1B on the project — Oracle's co-founder and the world's second-richest person pledges to concentrate his vast resources on his own research institute … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic updates Claude Sonnet 4 to support a 1M token context window, letting it process prompts up to 750K words or 75K lines of code, up 5x on its old limit — Anthropic is increasing the amount of information that enterprise customers can send to Claude in a single prompt … | Benicia Tan / Bloomberg: |
Indian entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia partners with GoDaddy to offer enterprises his email service Titan, which costs $2+ per month, aiming for 10M+ users by 2029 — Indian tech entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia is partnering GoDaddy Inc. to offer his artificial intelligence-led email service … | James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at potential issues as US judges follow lawyers in testing generative AI; some want to expedite legal research, summarize cases, and draft routine orders — The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes and for humans to miss those mistakes has been on full display in the US legal system as of late.| VideoCardz.com: |
Nvidia announces two Blackwell workstation GPUs with a 70W TDP, the RTX PRO 4000 SFF and the RTX PRO 2000, featuring compact designs and available later in 2025 — NVIDIA updates RTX Pro Blackwell series with entry-level SKUs — Based on GB203 and GB206 GPUs.Sponsor Posts
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