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Ashley Oliver / Fox Business:
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app  —  Bondi confirmed the department reached out to Apple on Thursday to demand it remove ICEBlock
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Google and Apple removed Red Dot, an app for reporting ICE sightings; Google says the app was being used to share the location of a “vulnerable group”  —  Both Google and Apple recently removed Red Dot, an app people can use to report sightings of ICE officials, from their respective app stores, 404 Media has found.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft is testing ad-supported games streaming internally, allowing employees to play select titles for free without an Xbox Game Pass subscription  —  Microsoft employees can now access an ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming ahead of a public test.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI's invite-only Sora app becomes the top free app in the US App Store three days after its launch, ahead of Gemini in second and ChatGPT in third  —  OpenAI now has two of the top three free apps in Apple's App Store, and its new video generation app Sora has snagged the coveted No. 1 spot.
New York Times:
Users express surprise, delight, and disgust with viral Sora clips, as some warn of IP theft and that Cameos could lead to new kinds of misinformation and scams
TechCrunch:
Lapsus$ publishes a data leak site on the dark web that threatens to release ~1B records allegedly stolen from dozens of companies' Salesforce-hosted databases  —  Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker  —  A notorious predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website …
Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker:
Strava sues Garmin for allegedly infringing two patents related to its segments and heatmap features and violating a 2015 agreement between the companies  —  Strava has sued Garmin, an act that I very much did not have on my bingo card for 2025.  In doing so, they are demanding …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
IBM releases Granite 4.0, an open-source, enterprise-ready LLM family with a hybrid architecture, claiming it uses significantly less RAM than conventional LLMs  —  Despite being one of the oldest active tech companies in the U.S. (founded in 1911, 114 years ago!), “Big Blue” …
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
a16z releases a report, citing Mercury data, on the top 50 AI companies that startups pay; OpenAI leads, followed by Anthropic, Replit, Freepik, and ElevenLabs  —  On Thursday, Andreessen Horowitz released its first AI Spending Report in partnership with the fintech firm Mercury.
Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Doc: Amazon's Q Business AI assistant struggled with accuracy and data processing in its first year, drawing complaints; Amazon says the document is outdated  —  - Amazon's Q Business AI tool faced accuracy issues in its first year.  — The tool struggled with data processing and conversational flow, drawing customer complaints.
Chandra Asmara / Bloomberg:
Indonesia suspends TikTok's local operating license, saying it didn't share complete livestream activity during August protests following a government request  —  Indonesia suspended TikTok's local operating license after the company refused to fully share data on its live streaming activity during nationwide protests in August.

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Svetlana Shkolnikova / Stars & Stripes:
Longtime Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer announces his retirement, saying his understanding of the outlet's “value and mission” differs from DOD plans

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
ABC sues the FCC, claiming the agency's investigations and regulatory actions are part of a Trump administration “retaliatory campaign” to curb its free speech

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Cinemark joins AMC Theatres and Regal in supporting Paramount's acquisition of WBD; lobbying group Cinema United remains opposed to a WBD sale for now

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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
OpenAI asks a US judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging it hired away xAI employees to steal trade secrets, calling the case part of Musk's “ongoing harassment”
Mercor:
Mercor launches the AI Productivity Index (APEX), which evaluates AI models' ability to perform “economically valuable knowledge work”; GPT-5 leads at 64.2%
Google Developers Blog:
Google says Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, is now generally available and supports more aspect ratios, priced at $0.039/image and $30/1M output tokens
Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review:
Microsoft researchers say AI models can be used to design toxins or pathogens that evade biosecurity systems used to screen DNA orders for potential biothreats
Janko Roettgers / Lowpass:
Amazon's Fire TV Stick 4K Select, which comes with Vega OS, will use cloud app streaming to run Android versions of select apps that haven't been ported to Vega
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google expands its AI coding agent Jules with a command-line interface and a public API, allowing it to plug into terminals, CI/CD systems, and tools like Slack
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