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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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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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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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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 …
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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.| 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.| New York Times: |
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 … | James Hunt / The Block: |
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.| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia debuts a new Omniverse SDK and Cosmos world foundation models for robotics developers, like Cosmos Reason, a 7B-parameter reasoning vision language model — Nvidia on Monday unveiled a set of new world AI models, libraries, and other infrastructure for robotics developers … | Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Google and IBM believe the first industrial-scale quantum computer is in sight, potentially by 2030, but challenges like scaling from <200 to 1M+ qubits remain — Recent breakthroughs have revived confidence about creating full-scale quantum systems by end of the decade
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ESET says two Russian cybercrime groups are exploiting a high-severity WinRAR zero-day, backdooring computers that open malicious archives in phishing messages — A high-severity zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file compressor is under active exploitation by two Russian cybercrime groups.
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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 …
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How Google, Meta, and Apple's pledges to spend billions on new Silicon Valley housing failed to meet expectations; Apple spent $1.6B by July 2024, the most — Google, Meta and Apple have helped fund construction of thousands of new units, but some efforts have slowed
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