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August 12, 2025, 7:25 AM

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Surbhi Misra / Reuters:
Elon Musk alleges Apple is violating antitrust laws by “making it impossible” for any AI company but OpenAI to top its App Store and xAI will take legal action  —  Elon Musk has accused Apple (AAPL.O) of engaging in antitrust violations by allegedly making it impossible …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Chinese authorities urge local companies to avoid using less advanced chips, particularly Nvidia's H20, 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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Skylar Woodhouse / Bloomberg:
President Trump meets with Lip-Bu Tan and says the Intel CEO will continue talks with his Cabinet members 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 …
The Verge:
ABC:
An Australian federal judge rules Apple and Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct by misusing app store market power, but rejects some of Epic's claims  —  By national consumer affairs reporter Michael Atkin and the Specialist Reporting Team's Melanie Vujkovic
Ina Fried / Axios:
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he is leaving to “become a startup founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization  —  GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Monday that he plans to step down, with Microsoft opting not to directly replace the position …
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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.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing most of its pages after it caught AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine  —  The company says that AI companies have scraped data from the Wayback Machine, so it's going to limit what the Wayback Machine can access.
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. …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Anthropic adds a memory feature for Claude to reference information from past chats, available now for Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, and soon for other plans  —  Anthropic has introduced a helpful new feature for Claude that solves a problem similar to one ChatGPT already addressed.
Ben Weiss / Fortune:
The Trump family's World Liberty Financial is using publicly listed company ALT5 Sigma to raise $1.5B for the purchase of its WLFI token  —  World Liberty Financial cofounders Zach Witkoff (left) and Eric Trump.  —  The Trump family's crypto business, World Liberty Financial …
Bloomberg:
Sea reports Q2 revenue up 38% YoY to $5.26B, vs. $5B est., a $414M net income, vs. $444M est., Shopee revenue up 34% YoY to $3.8B, driven by commissions and ads  —  Sea Ltd. second-quarter sales beat analysts' estimates as more of Southeast Asia's consumers turn to online shopping for anything from iPhones to daily groceries.
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