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Surbhi Misra / Reuters:
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 …
The Verge:
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.
ABC:
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
Financial Times:
Anthropic signs a deal to offer Claude to US lawmakers for $1/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 …
Bloomberg:
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
How Jensen Huang successfully lobbied Trump to resume Nvidia's H20 sales to China; US officials hadn't vetted the 20% pay-to-play proposal when Trump offered it
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.
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
In US court, Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon says he will plead guilty to charges of conspiracy and wire fraud under an agreement with prosecutors  —  Terraform Labs Pte. co-founder Do Kwon pleaded guilty to charges in a US fraud prosecution tied to the $40 billion collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin in 2022.
Skylar Woodhouse / Bloomberg:
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 …
Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal:
Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal  —  With its unsolicited bid for Google's browser, AI startup seeks to take advantage of uncertainty over pending antitrust ruling
New York Times:
How Larry Ellison is focusing his philanthropic efforts on the Oxford-based, for-profit Ellison Institute of Technology, promising to spend £1B on the project  —  Oracle's co-founder and the world's second-richest person pledges to concentrate his vast resources on his own research institute …
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Nvidia announces two Blackwell workstation GPUs with a 70W TDP, the RTX PRO 4000 SFF and the RTX PRO 2000, featuring compact designs and available later in 2025  —  NVIDIA updates RTX Pro Blackwell series with entry-level SKUs  —  Based on GB203 and GB206 GPUs.

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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump files a $10B defamation lawsuit against the BBC in a Florida court, alleging it deceptively doctored his January 6 speech in a Panorama documentary

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Howard Stern signs a new three-year deal with SiriusXM, after a report earlier this year suggested that his show was about to be canceled

Jacob Savage / Compact:
A writer argues that since 2014, DEI practices led to discrimination against white male millennials for entry-level and mid-level roles in Hollywood and media

More News

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
ESET says two Russian cybercrime groups are exploiting a high-severity WinRAR zero-day, backdooring computers that open malicious archives in phishing messages
Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Paxos applies to create a US national trust bank, which would let it manage and hold assets on behalf of customers, following Circle's and Ripple's applications
Charles Capel / Bloomberg:
SEC filing: crypto exchange Bullish increased the size and price of its US IPO to sell 30M shares for $32 to $33 each, up from 20.3M shares for $28 to $31 each

Earlier Picks

Ben Weiss / Fortune:
The Trump family's crypto business, World Liberty Financial, is using publicly listed company ALT5 Sigma to raise $1.5B for the purchase of its WLFI token
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Anthropic adds a memory feature to let Claude reference information from past chats, available now to Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers, and soon to others
Omair Pall / Mashable India:
xAI makes Grok 4 free for all users worldwide, after making Grok Imagine free for all US users; Grok 4 Heavy remains exclusive to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers
Ina Fried / Axios:
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he will “leave GitHub to become a founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization
Sam Tobin / Reuters:
A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors' IDs, but says it can file new challenges
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