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Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg:
Apple commits to spending another $100B on US manufacturing and announces a new manufacturing program designed to bring more of Apple's supply chain to the US  —  Apple Inc. committed to spending another $100 billion on domestic manufacturing ahead of an event with President Donald Trump …
Bloomberg:
President Trump says he will impose a “tariff of approximately 100% on chips and semiconductors”, exempting firms like Apple that “committed to build” in the US  —  Donald Trump said he would impose a 100% tariff on imports that include semiconductors …
Apple:
Apple commits $2.5B to produce all iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass at Corning's Kentucky facility, part of its plan to invest $600B in the US over four years  —  The new $2.5 billion commitment from Apple is part of the company's expanded plan to invest $600 billion in the U.S. over the next four years
Deborah Mary Sophia / Reuters:
Shopify reports Q2 revenue up 31% YoY to $2.68B, above $2.55B est., GMV up 31% YoY to $87.84B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates; SHOP closes up 22%  —  Shopify on Wednesday forecast upbeat quarterly revenue, saying there was no slowdown in consumer demand yet and sellers on its platform …
Bloomberg:
OpenAI offers ChatGPT for enterprise to US federal agencies at a nominal cost of $1 per year, to boost its adoption after the US GSA approved OpenAI as a vendor  —  OpenAI is providing access to its ChatGPT product to US federal agencies at a nominal cost of $1 a year as part of a push to get its AI chatbot more widely adopted.
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company:
Google unveils a Guided Learning mode within its Gemini chatbot to help students and commits $1B over three years to AI education and training efforts in the US  —  Just in time for the new school year, Google has introduced a tool called Guided Learning within its Gemini chatbot.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney says it is “fully integrating” Hulu into Disney+, plans to launch a “unified” Disney+ and Hulu app in 2026 and migrate Hulu's live TV subscribers to Fubo  —  Hulu will replace the Star brand on Disney+ internationally this fall
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Disney plans to launch its new flagship sports streaming service ESPN on August 21 for $29.99 per month, or $35.99 per month when bundled with Disney+ and Hulu
Liz Reid / The Keyword:
Google says total organic click volume from Search to websites has been “relatively stable” YoY and it's sending “slightly more quality clicks” than a year ago  —  We continue to send billions of clicks to the web every day and are committed to prioritizing the web in our AI experiences in Search.
Bloomberg:
A US jury finds Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm guilty of conspiring to run an unlicensed money-transfer operation that laundered $1B+ via Tornado Cash  —  A co-founder of Tornado Cash was convicted of conspiring to run an unlicensed money-transfer operation that laundered …
Financial Times:
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $12.7B, Gross Bookings up 17% to $46.8B, trips up 18% to 3.3B, income up 82% to $1.5B, and authorizes a $20B share buyback  —  Ride-hailing app announces plans after posting upbeat outlook for gross bookings  —  Uber has announced plans to buy back $20bn …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Instagram now lets users repost public Reels and grid posts from other accounts, collected in a designated tab, and adds a Snapchat-like, opt-in maps feature  —  The platform is adding a TikTok-like reposting feature. … Instagram is getting several new features that pull from competitors …
Matt Burgess / Wired:
Researchers demonstrate a novel Gemini attack using poisoned Google Calendar invitations to trigger smart home devices; Google fixed the flaws earlier in 2025  —  For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real-world havoc …
Bloomberg:
Amazon plans to make OpenAI's new gpt-oss open-weight models available on Bedrock and SageMaker, the first time it has offered OpenAI's models to AWS customers  —  Amazon.com Inc. plans to make OpenAI's latest artificial intelligence models available to customers, the first time the cloud computing giant …
Reece Rogers / Wired:
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM
The Guardian:
Investigation: Israel's Unit 8200 built a system using Microsoft Azure that collects recordings of millions of phone calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank  —  Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians' phone calls on Microsoft's servers in Europe
George Hammond / Financial Times:
AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $70M Series A led by Menlo Ventures via its co-investment vehicle with Anthropic, valuing it at ~$550M  —  Start-up has attracted investment from Menlo Ventures and Yuri Milner's DST Global Partners  —  OpenAI-backed start-up Chai Discovery …
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to hold a secondary share sale for current and former staffers at a ~$500B valuation; OpenAI was valued at $300B in March 2025  —  OpenAI is in early talks about a potential sale of stock for current and former employees at a valuation of about $500 billion …
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports; Uber only disclosed 12,522 reports during the period  —  Uber received a report of sexual assault or sexual misconduct in the United States almost every eight minutes on average between 2017 and 2022 …

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The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

David Pierce / The Verge:
Yahoo launches Game Breakdowns in beta, offering AI-generated game summaries, stats, and play recaps, all updated live, to Yahoo Fantasy Plus subscribers

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
The Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging Perplexity's platforms lift Tribune content verbatim and divert traffic from the paper

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David Reber Jr / NVIDIA:
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft unveils Project Ire, a prototype AI system that can reverse engineer and identify malicious software autonomously, without human assistance
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Grok's new “spicy” option on its generative AI video tool Imagine produces nude deepfakes of celebrities like Taylor Swift, even without explicit user prompting
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