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Agence France-Presse:
Apple asks the EU to repeal the DMA; EU rejects Apple's demand, saying it is “not surprised” as Apple has “contested every little bit” of DMA since day one  —  Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) - Apple asked the European Union to scrap its landmark digital competition law on Thursday …
Joel Drapper:
Sources allege that nonprofit Ruby Central took control of some Ruby open-source projects from their maintainers without consent, after pressure from Shopify  —  Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
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
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
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 …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft Windows 10 users will receive free Extended Security Updates in the EEA without enabling Windows Backup, after pressure from the Euroconsumers group  —  You won't have to enable Windows Backup to get extended Windows 10 security updates in the European Economic Area.
Makini Brice / Reuters:
The EU launches an antitrust probe into SAP over its ERP software maintenance and support services, with a potential fine of ~10% of its annual global sales  —  The European Commission has opened an investigation into possible anticompetitive practices by Germany's SAP (SAPG.DE) …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Neon, which pays users to record their phone calls and sells that audio data to AI companies for training, becomes the #2 social app on the US App Store  —  A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably …
Alex Heath / Sources:
Sources: OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo has been meeting with potential candidates for a role overseeing monetization efforts, including ads in ChatGPT  —  Fidji Simo is on the hunt for someone to oversee all monetization efforts, including, yes, bringing advertising to ChatGPT.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Nothing plans to invest $100M to spin off budget brand CMF into an independent subsidiary, with India as its manufacturing and R&D headquarters  —  Hardware startup Nothing said Thursday that it plans to make its affordable device brand, CMF, into an independent subsidiary with India serving …
Tabby Kinder / Financial Times:
A profile of AI skeptic Ed Zitron: Sam Altman's firing and return was his “Joker moment”, tech journalism is flawed, his brash persona is not a mask, and more  —  How a British-born hobbyist blogger became one of Big Tech's punchiest critics  —  Ed Zitron is not a journalist …
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.
Marc Rubinstein / Bloomberg:
JPMorgan's recent data access deal with Plaid, if extended to other aggregators, could allow Plaid to use its cost advantage to further consolidate market share  —  The agreement setting a price for customers' financial information stands to benefit the biggest market players.
Oma Seddiq / Bloomberg:
xAI signed a deal with the GSA to offer Grok to US federal agencies for $0.42 per agency for 18 months, a discount to OpenAI's $1 per year for ChatGPT  —  - Follows recent deals with Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google  — xAI engineers to assist federal agencies with implementation

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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sky agrees to acquire ITV's TV business for £1.6B, uniting the UK's two largest commercial broadcasters; ITV says shareholders will receive £950M from the deal

Alex Ritman / Variety:
AI-focused studio Particle 6 plans a full-length feature film to be led by the AI “actor” Tilly Norwood, as a hybrid production using film and TV professionals

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix is studying its data to see why viewers quit its shows after S1, with some shows seeing a 30%-70% S2 drop, as it faces a quarter without hits

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify updates its AI policy, including adopting the upcoming DDEX standard to label and identify AI music and rolling out a new music spam filter
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

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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
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