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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans three high-end iPhones next fall, with lower-end iPhones and likely a new Air in Q2 2027; Mac Pro gets deprioritized; Jeff Williams retires  —  Apple's iPhone is getting its biggest makeover yet — both to its features and release schedule.  Here's what's happening to the company's flagship product.
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who will become co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021  —  Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft.
Financial Times:
Sources: Apple is intensifying CEO succession planning as Tim Cook, now 65, may step down as early as next year, with John Ternus seen as the likely successor
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Some experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberattack breakthroughs using its tools, noting that white-hat hackers report modest gains from AI-aided hacking  —  Researchers from Anthropic said they recently observed the “first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign” …
Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
Sources: Demis Hassabis pursued a Nobel as a DeepMind goal and favored high-minded work over short-term revenue or a stronger AI race position for Alphabet  —  Demis Hassabis has spent much of the past decade trying to unlock the secrets of the universe through artificial intelligence.
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Flighty, a flight-tracking app that often beats airline updates; downloads went up 3x when the FAA cut air traffic during the US government shutdown  —  There's a product that makes flying less miserable—and it has never been so valuable  —  It all goes back to an airport Chili's.

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Associated Press:
A US district court judge agrees to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing an executive order to end federal funding for NPR and PBS

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A new filing from Nexstar in the DirecTV lawsuit says the existing restraining order freezing the Nexstar-Tegna merger could jeopardize assets of both companies

Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Iraqi officials say a US journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad and security forces are looking for her captors; one outlet identified her as Shelly Kittleson

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Heather Knight / New York Times:
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Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to disclose and obtain users' permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers

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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A California federal jury says Apple must pay Masimo $634M for infringing a blood-oxygen patent used in Watch workout and heart-rate alerts; Apple will appeal
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, reportedly leaving after being sidelined, who says LLMs are a dead end for AGI and backs world models instead
Molly Taft / Wired:
Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025
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