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Elon Musk alleges Apple is violating antitrust laws by “making it impossible” for any AI company but OpenAI to top its App Store and xAI will take legal action — Elon Musk has accused Apple (AAPL.O) of engaging in antitrust violations by allegedly making it impossible …
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Sources: Chinese authorities urge local companies to avoid using less advanced chips, particularly Nvidia's H20, for government or national security work — Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks global trade. Sign up here. — Beijing has urged local companies … | Financial Times: |
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President Trump meets with Lip-Bu Tan and says the Intel CEO will continue talks with his Cabinet members 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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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.
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| ABC: |
An Australian federal judge rules Apple and Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct by misusing app store market power, but rejects some of Epic's claims — By national consumer affairs reporter Michael Atkin and the Specialist Reporting Team's Melanie Vujkovic
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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he is leaving to “become a startup founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization — GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Monday that he plans to step down, with Microsoft opting not to directly replace the position …
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Nvidia debuts new Omniverse SDKs 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 … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
ESET says a high-severity WinRAR zero-day is being exploited by two Russian cybercrime groups, enabling persistent backdoors when malicious files are opened — 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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How Larry Ellison is focusing his philanthropic efforts on the Ellison Institute of Technology, an Oxford-based, for-profit entity set to spend £1B by 2027 — Oracle's co-founder and the world's second-richest person pledges to concentrate his vast resources on his own research institute …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing most of its pages after it caught AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine — The company says that AI companies have scraped data from the Wayback Machine, so it's going to limit what the Wayback Machine can access.
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| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
Paxos applies to create a US national trust bank, which would allow it to manage and hold assets for customers, following applications by Circle and Ripple — Paxos Trust Company, the cryptocurrency firm behind PayPal's stablecoin, said it is applying to create a national trust bank in the U.S. …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Anthropic adds a memory feature for Claude to reference information from past chats, available now for Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, and soon for other plans — Anthropic has introduced a helpful new feature for Claude that solves a problem similar to one ChatGPT already addressed.
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
The Trump family's World Liberty Financial is using publicly listed company ALT5 Sigma to raise $1.5B for the purchase of its WLFI token — World Liberty Financial cofounders Zach Witkoff (left) and Eric Trump. — The Trump family's crypto business, World Liberty Financial …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sea reports Q2 revenue up 38% YoY to $5.26B, vs. $5B est., a $414M net income, vs. $444M est., Shopee revenue up 34% YoY to $3.8B, driven by commissions and ads — Sea Ltd. second-quarter sales beat analysts' estimates as more of Southeast Asia's consumers turn to online shopping for anything from iPhones to daily groceries.
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