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Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
US v. Google: a US federal judge rules that Google will not be required to divest Chrome or Android, but it must share Search data with rivals; GOOG jumps 6%+  —  A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the company can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts and must share search data.
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg, Senator Amy Klobuchar, News / Media Alliance CEO Danielle Coffey, and others say the US v. Google remedies don't go far enough  —  ‘Google will still be allowed to continue to use its monopoly to hold back competitors, including in AI search,’ said DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg.
Wall Street Journal:
A US judge bars Google from paying to be the exclusive search engine on devices and browsers, but allows payments for product distribution, including to Apple  —  Court-imposed limits aim to restore competition in search marketplace  —  A federal judge on Tuesday barred Alphabet's Google …
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
US v. Google: Judge Amit Mehta says allowing Google's payments is “more palatable now”, since GenAI companies “already are in a better position” to compete  —  Now, Google can finally appeal the case. … Google will not have to sell its Chrome browser in order …
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
US v. Google: the ruling that lets Google continue paying for traffic acquisition is a huge win for Apple and Mozilla, which relies heavily on Google's payments  —  I had a sneaking suspicion today might be the day where Judge Amit Mehta would come back with the remedies in Google's antitrust trial.
Hayden Field / The Verge:
OpenAI acquires product analytics company Statsig for $1.1B and shuffles executive roles, with Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji becoming OpenAI's CTO of Applications  —  It was a big weekend for the ChatGPT-maker. … OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo …
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil will become VP of a new group called OpenAI for Science to build an “AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery”
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Cloudflare says attackers gained access to a Salesforce instance it uses for internal customer case management, as part of the Salesloft Drift breach  —  Cloudflare is the latest company impacted in a recent string of Salesloft Drift breaches, part of a supply-chain attack disclosed last week.
Bloomberg:
AI search engine startup Exa Labs raised an $85M Series B led by Benchmark at a $700M valuation, up 10x on its 2024 Series A, and plans to grow its GPU cluster  —  The $85 million funding round values Exa at $700 million.  —  The venture capital firm Benchmark is backing a new type …
Julia Love / Bloomberg:
A profile of Ashish Vaswani, lead author of Attention Is All You Need and Essential AI co-founder, who says the transformer-based AI boom is stifling innovation  —  Ashish Vaswani helped usher in modern AI.  Now he's wondering if we're doing it all wrong.  —  In March 2024 a group …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Nintendo repeatedly pushed back Switch 2 launch plans after game designers asked for more time, believing a focus on gameplay trumped advanced hardware  —  Earlier this year, Nintendo Co. was under growing pressure.  It had been eight long years since the release of the original Switch …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple's lead AI researcher for robotics, Jian Zhang, leaves for Meta's Robotics Studio; sources say three more researchers left Apple's Foundation Models team  —  Apple Inc.'s lead artificial intelligence researcher for robotics has departed the company to join Meta Platforms Inc.'s competing effort …
Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg:
You.com, which pivoted from AI search to enterprise AI tools, raised $100M led by Cox Enterprises at a $1.5B valuation, after a $50M Series B in September 2024  —  Artificial intelligence startup You.com has reached a valuation of $1.5 billion in a new $100 million funding round …
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Garmin unveils the $1,200+ Fenix 8 Pro, including new satellite and cellular communications tools, and a $2,000 microLED version, both shipping September 8  —  Garmin Ltd. on Wednesday unveiled an upgraded, top-of-the-line rugged smartwatch for hikers, days before Apple Inc.'s expected update to its own high-end timepiece.
Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Utila, which is building an “operating system for stablecoins”, raised a $22M Series A extension led by Red Dot, taking its total funding to $51M+  —  - Utila raised $22 million in a Series A extension round led by Red Dot Capital Partners, “nearly tripling” its valuation six months after its initial Series A.
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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

James Faris / Business Insider:
Kalshi strikes a deal with CNBC that will integrate Kalshi's prediction data into CNBC's channel, site, and app starting in 2026, days after striking a CNN deal

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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Financial Times:
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Disney pays $10M to settle an FTC complaint that alleges Disney collected children's data by failing to designate certain YouTube videos as being made for kids
Anthropic:
Anthropic raised a $13B Series F led by Iconiq, Fidelity, and Lightspeed at a $183B valuation, up from $61.5B in March, and reports a run rate of $5B+
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