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August 26, 2025, 9:55 AM

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Chris Eudaily / CNBC:
Filing: Intel warns the US taking a 10% stake could cause “adverse reactions”, like in international sales, which made up 76% of revenue in its past fiscal year  —  Intel on Monday warned of “adverse reactions” from investors, employees and others to the Trump administration taking …
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Stanford researchers: over the past three years, employment has dropped 13% for entry-level workers just starting out in fields that are the most exposed to AI  —  Artificial intelligence is making it harder for entry-level workers in the US to find jobs in fields like software development …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Humeyra Pamuk / Reuters:
Sources: the Trump administration is considering imposing sanctions on EU or member state officials that implement the DSA, after US tech company complaints  —  President Donald Trump's administration is considering imposing sanctions on European Union or member state officials responsible …
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
xAI sues Apple and OpenAI, alleging their deal to integrate ChatGPT into Apple's OSes stifles competition and that Apple favors OpenAI in its App Store rankings  —  Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI sued Apple (AAPL.O) and ChatGPT maker OpenAI …
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Bloomberg:
AT&T agrees to buy spectrum licenses from EchoStar for ~$23B in cash, adding ~50MHz of spectrum, expected to close by mid-2026, pending regulatory approval  —  Corrected  —  EchoStar Corp. has agreed to sell spectrum licenses to AT&T Inc. for about $23 billion in a deal that may help …
Financial Times:
Japanese media groups Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun jointly sue Perplexity in Tokyo, alleging the AI startup “copied and stored” their articles without permission  —  The publishers say the company illegally ‘copied and stored article content’  —  Two of Japan's largest media groups …
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Forty-four US AGs sign an open letter to 11 chatbot and social media companies, warning that they will “answer for it” if their AI chatbots knowingly harm kids  —  Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter on Monday that says to companies developing AI chatbots: “If you knowingly harm kids, you will answer for it.”
Alex Barasch / New Yorker:
A profile of film studio A24, valued at $3.5B in June 2024, as it focuses on big budget projects and explores AI tools via A24 Labs, drawing mixed reactions  —  The studio is brilliant at selling small, provocative films.  Now it wants to sell blockbusters, too.

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