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Apple appeals the EU's €500M DMA fine, levied in April 2025 over its App Store steering rules, claiming the decision goes “far beyond what the law requires” — Apple is appealing the 500 million euro ($570 million) fine that it is facing in the European Union for allegedly violating the Digital Markets Act.
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| The Guardian: |
After Elon Musk unveiled the America Party, a new US political party, President Trump called Musk a “TRAIN WRECK” fueled by discontent over EV subsidies ending — US president railed against his former adviser online after tech billionaire said he will start and bankroll America party
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| Dana Wollman / Bloomberg: |
CoreWeave says it has agreed to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific in a ~$9B all-stock deal, set to close in Q4 2025, to expand its AI data center capacity — The transaction values Core Scientific's stock at $20.40 per share, according to a statement from CoreWeave on Monday.
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Bluesky: @quinnypig.com, @firstadopter, and @emilprotalinski
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Jack Dorsey shares TestFlight and GitHub links to his “weekend project”, Bitchat, a decentralized P2P messaging iOS app that relies on Bluetooth mesh networks — Block CEO Jack Dorsey spent the weekend building Bitchat, a new decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app that works entirely …
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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
President Trump announces 25% tariffs on Japan and South Korea, starting August 1 — - CNBC Councils — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel — Supply Chain Values — Select Shopping — Ad Choices — News Tips — Got a confidential news tip? We want to hear from you.| Bloomberg: |
Paris-based Capgemini plans to acquire US-listed IT outsourcing company WNS for $3.3B in cash, seeking to boost its agentic AI services; WNS serves 600+ clients — The French group said it will take over the US-listed firm for $76.50 per share, a premium of about 28% to WNS's average price over the past 90 days.| Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
OpenAI told investors stock compensation jumped over 5x last year to $4.4B, or 119% of total revenue for that period but expects it to drop to under 10% by 2030 — OpenAI has signaled it will hike pay for some employees in the wake of a raid by Meta Platforms on its artificial intelligence researchers.| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Stat Counter: Windows 11 had a 50.9% share of the Windows market on July 4, ahead of Windows 10's 46.2%; the OS, released in 2021, only had a <10% share in 2022 — After four years on the market, Windows 11 has finally surpassed Windows 10 to become the most dominant desktop OS platform in the world.| Bloomberg: |
Huawei's AI lab refutes accusations that its Pangu Pro MoE model source code used uncredited material from key rivals, after a GitHub group debated its origins — The Pangu Pro MoE is the world's first model of its kind to be trained on Ascend chips — Huawei's answer to Nvidia Corp.'s AI accelerators …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
PE firm TPG completes its $7.6B acquisition of the remaining 70% stake in DirecTV from AT&T, marking AT&T's exit from media — Private equity firm TPG completed its $7.6 billion purchase of the 70% stake it didn't already hold in DirecTV from AT&T.
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| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
An analysis of Crunchbase and PitchBook data: in 2025 so far, 36+ tech startups hit a $1B+ valuation, including seven in June, six in May, and four in April — With AI igniting an investor frenzy, every month, more startups obtain unicorn status. — Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook … | Emma Jacobs / Financial Times: |
On-the-job learning in fields like law and banking faces a double threat: hybrid work limiting juniors' time with seniors and Gen AI cutting many routine tasks — Employers will have to be more deliberate in the training they offer junior staff — Jamie Dimon is unequivocal about the impact … | Kieran Smith / Financial Times: |
Experts say ransomware group DragonForce, which targeted M&S, Harrods, and the Co-op, started a turf war with rival RansomHub that may bring more company hacks — A clash between rival criminal ransomware groups could result in corporate victims being extorted twice, cyber experts warn
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| Ben Dickson / VentureBeat: |
Tokyo-based Sakana AI details a new Monte Carlo Tree Search-based technique that lets multiple LLMs cooperate on a single task, outperforming individual LLMs — Japanese AI lab Sakana AI has introduced a new technique that allows multiple large language models (LLMs) to cooperate on a single task … Sponsor Posts
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