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Elon Musk says that Apple “makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI” to top its App Store, an “antitrust violation”, and xAI will take legal action — Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday his artificial intelligence startup xAI would take legal action against Apple …
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Epic says it is bringing Fortnite back to iOS in Australia “at a date to be determined”, after a judge ruled Apple and Google's app stores are anticompetitive — Apple and Google's losses in Australian antitrust cases could be a win for Epic Games.
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An Australian federal judge rules Apple and Google engaged in anticompetitive conduct by misusing their app store market power, but rejects Epic's other claims — By national consumer affairs reporter Michael Atkin and the Specialist Reporting Team's Melanie Vujkovic
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President Trump meets with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and says his Cabinet members would continue talks with him in the coming days, after calling for his resignation — President Donald Trump said members of his Cabinet would continue discussions with Lip-Bu Tan in the coming days after meeting …
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Sources: Chinese authorities urge local companies to avoid using less advanced US chips, particularly Nvidia's H20s, for government or national security work — Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks global trade. Sign up here. — Beijing has urged local companies …
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Nvidia debuts a new Omniverse SDK and Cosmos world foundation models for robotics developers, like Cosmos Reason, a 7B-parameter reasoning vision language model — Nvidia on Monday unveiled a set of new world AI models, libraries, and other infrastructure for robotics developers … | James Hunt / The Block: |
Circle reports Q2 revenue up 53% YoY to $658M, USDC circulation up 90% YoY to $61.3B, a $482M net loss, and unveils Arc, a stablecoin-focused Layer-1 blockchain — - Circle is planning to launch a stablecoin-focused EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain called Arc.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
ESET says a high-severity WinRAR zero-day is being exploited by two Russian cybercrime groups, enabling persistent backdoors when malicious files are opened — A high-severity zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file compressor is under active exploitation by two Russian cybercrime groups.
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Anthropic plans to offer Claude to US lawmakers for $1 per year, following OpenAI; a source says Google is in talks to offer Gemini on similarly cheap terms — Group follows rival OpenAI in making enterprise tools available to government branches — Anthropic will offer its Claude chatbot … | Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Google and IBM believe the first industrial-scale quantum computer is in sight, potentially by 2030, but challenges like scaling from ~200 to 1M qubits remain — Recent breakthroughs have revived confidence about creating full-scale quantum systems by end of the decade
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Q&A with AMD CEO Lisa Su on AI accelerators, US manufacturing, becoming AMD CEO in 2014, aiming to surpass Nvidia, OpenAI, Tesla, xAI, China, ROCm, and more — While everyone else has been talking about Nvidia's GPUs, Lisa Su has discreetly turned AMD into a chipmaking phenom.
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How Larry Ellison is focusing his philanthropic efforts on the Ellison Institute of Technology, an Oxford-based, for-profit entity set to spend £1B by 2027 — Oracle's co-founder and the world's second-richest person pledges to concentrate his vast resources on his own research institute … | Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
Paxos applies to create a US national trust bank, which would allow it to manage and hold assets for customers, following applications by Circle and Ripple — Paxos Trust Company, the cryptocurrency firm behind PayPal's stablecoin, said it is applying to create a national trust bank in the U.S. …
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| James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at potential issues as US judges join lawyers in testing generative AI to speed up legal research, summarize cases, draft routine orders, and more — The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes and for humans to miss those mistakes has been on full display in the US legal system as of late.Sponsor Posts
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