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Filing: Intel warns the US taking a 10% stake could cause “adverse reactions”, like in international sales, which made up 76% of revenue in its past fiscal year — Intel on Monday warned of “adverse reactions” from investors, employees and others to the Trump administration taking …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The US taking a 10% equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea and a dangerous turn in US industrial policy, but also the least bad option to make Foundry viable — The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Stanford researchers: over the past three years, employment has dropped 13% for entry-level workers just starting out in fields that are the most exposed to AI — Artificial intelligence is making it harder for entry-level workers in the US to find jobs in fields like software development …
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| Humeyra Pamuk / Reuters: |
Sources: the Trump administration is considering imposing sanctions on EU or member state officials that implement the DSA, after US tech company complaints — President Donald Trump's administration is considering imposing sanctions on European Union or member state officials responsible …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Spotify launches a DM feature that lets users share audio and send text chats, available to mobile users aged 16 years and older in “select markets” this week — Both Free and Premium accounts can share audio content and send messages to each other.
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| Financial Times: |
Japanese media groups Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun jointly sue Perplexity in Tokyo, alleging the AI startup “copied and stored” their articles without permission — The publishers say the company illegally ‘copied and stored article content’ — Two of Japan's largest media groups …
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| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Forty-four US AGs sign an open letter to 11 chatbot and social media companies, warning they will be held accountable if their AI chatbots knowingly harm kids — Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter on Monday that says to companies developing AI chatbots: “If you knowingly harm kids, you will answer for it.”
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| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
AT&T agrees to buy spectrum licenses from EchoStar for ~$23B in cash, adding ~50MHz of spectrum, expected to close by mid-2026, pending regulatory approval — AT&T Inc. is to buy spectrum licenses from EchoStar Corp. for about $23 billion in a deal that will expand the telecommunications company's US network.| Alex Barasch / New Yorker: |
A profile of film studio A24, valued at $3.5B in June 2024, as it focuses on big budget projects and explores AI tools via A24 Labs, drawing mixed reactions — The studio is brilliant at selling small, provocative films. Now it wants to sell blockbusters, too.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Temu resumes shipping goods from China directly to US consumers and increases its US ad spending, after a trade truce between Washington and Beijing — Low-cost ecommerce platform steps up US advertising after tentative trade deals to reduce tariffs on Chinese goods
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even from outside the Play Store, starting in September 2026 — Google wants to verify the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources and docs: Microsoft worked with the FBI to track anti-Israel protests, flagged internal emails with words like “Gaza”, deleted posts, and fired staff — Twenty activists urging company to sever ties with Israeli military were arrested last week.| Graham Fraser / BBC: |
French prosecutors open an investigation into Australian video platform Kick over the death of a content creator who was violently abused during livestreams — French prosecutors have opened an investigation into the Australian video platform Kick over the death of a content creator during a livestream.| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Court filing: Tesla rejected a $60M settlement offer in a lawsuit over a fatal 2019 crash of an Autopilot-equipped Model S, before losing a $243M verdict — Billionaire Elon Musk's electric vehicle company Tesla (TSLA.O) rejected a $60 million settlement proposal in a lawsuit over the 2019 fatal crash … Sponsor Posts
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