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NBC News:
Trump plans to sign a TikTok deal on Thursday; source: TikTok US would be run by a new joint venture company, with ByteDance holding less than 20% of its stock  —  This structure will comply with a bipartisan law passed in 2024 that sought to ban TikTok if the platform were not sold to U.S.-based owners this year.
Josh Taylor / The Guardian:
Some Australian leaders and experts debate whether the country should use a Chinese-owned version of TikTok or one run by Trump allies  —  Expert raises concerns about what US TikTok deal could mean for News Corp's ‘worrying dominance’ in Australian media  —  Would you rather a Chinese-owned TikTok …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Intel approached Apple about a potential investment in the chipmaker as part of its turnaround efforts and discussed how to work more closely together  —  Intel Corp. has approached Apple Inc. about securing an investment in the ailing chipmaker, according to people familiar with the matter …
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware:
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme chips for PCs, offering up to 18 cores, and says the latter is the first Arm chip to hit 5GHz  —  Systems with the chips are scheduled for the first half of 2026. … At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii …
Daniel Bader / Android Police:
Qualcomm details the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, its latest flagship mobile SoC, claiming a 20% boost in YoY CPU performance and a 23% uplift in GPU performance
AFP:
Apple asks the EU to repeal the DMA, saying the law “is leading to a worse experience for Apple users in the EU” and “exposing them to new risks”  —  Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) - Apple asked the European Union to scrap its landmark digital competition law on Thursday …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft is bringing Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to Microsoft 365 Copilot, starting with Researcher and Copilot Studio  —  Microsoft is bringing Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to Microsoft 365 Copilot users. … Microsoft is bringing Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 …
Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET:
Google launches its Search Live feature in the US, letting users ask questions in AI Mode while sharing their phone's camera feed for real-time help  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Search Live officially launches in the US.  — You can share your video feed and talk to Search.
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Meta says Instagram has hit 3B monthly users and is changing its home screen to prioritize DMs and Reels; it is testing opening directly into Reels in India  —  Instagram has reached 3 billion monthly users, cementing the network as one of the most popular consumer apps of all time and leading …
Jack Fenwick / BBC:
The UK's Cabinet Office says its Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator AI tool helped the government recover £480M from fraud in the 12 months from April 2024  —  A new artificial intelligence tool designed to crack down on fraud has helped the UK government recover almost £500m over the last year, the BBC can reveal.
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From Mediagazer

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Stephen Colbert says CBS released its statement “without ever talking to me” and talk shows have long been exempt from “equal time” rules

Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Sources: CNN restricted staff from using its platforms for self-promotion, after Jake Tapper pushing his Joe Biden book turned into a “rolling infomercial”

Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Netflix sends ByteDance a C&D letter over Seedance 2.0, joining WBD, Paramount, and Disney, saying “forensic evidence” shows “unauthorized derivative works”

More News

Bloomberg:
London-based “neocloud” startup Nscale raised a $1.1B Series B led by Aker, with Nvidia participating; Aker says it is investing $285M for a 9.3% stake
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta plans to open new pop-up shops in Las Vegas and NYC and reopen its LA shop starting in October to show off Meta Ray-Ban Display and other hardware
Bloomberg:
OpenAI partners with SAP to launch OpenAI for Germany, bringing its AI tools to Germany's public sector through SAP's Delos Cloud

Earlier Picks

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Waymo launches Waymo for Business, a service targeting employers, universities, and event organizers, available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Emergent, which lets non-technical users build apps via AI agents that handle coding errors and more, raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $30M
Bloomberg:
Source: Oracle sold $18B in US investment-grade bonds on Wednesday, issuing the debt in six parts, including a rare 40-year bond, as it ramps up spending
Imran Rahman-Jones / BBC:
UK's National Crime Agency says it's arrested a man in connection with a cyberattack that has caused days of disruption at Heathrow and other European airports
Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News:
iPhone 17 Pro teardown: the anodized aluminum scratches badly around the camera plateau edge, the screwed-in battery is a nice repairability upgrade, and more
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