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Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI has discussed giving a 5% stake to the US government, seeking to clear political obstacles by securing buy-in from the Trump administration  —  Sam Altman's start-up in early talks for a public ownership deal as political pressure rises.  OpenAI has discussed giving …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: SpaceX showed investors a handset-like device prototype with AI tech from xAI, a proprietary OS, a Snapdragon chip, and a design slimmer than an iPhone  —  The sleek, handset-like prototype was designed to integrate AI technology from SpaceX's xAI  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX has developed …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on four new iPad Pros and an entry-level 14" MacBook Pro for H1 2027 with a new design in line with its upcoming touch-screen laptops  —  Apple Inc. is preparing an upgraded iPad Pro line and a redesigned entry-level MacBook Pro for next year, adding to a slate …
Bloomberg:
The European Court of Justice rules that Google's earlier defeat against a €4.1B European Commission penalty over abusing Android's market power should stand  —  Google lost its long-running fight against a €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine after the bloc's top judges …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is in negotiations to buy chips from CXMT and YMTC, two Chinese semiconductor makers on a Pentagon blacklist, for use in devices sold in China  —  Apple Inc. is in negotiations to purchase chips from two Chinese semiconductor makers on a Pentagon blacklist to help reduce …
New York Times:
Filings: Trump purchased up to $5M each in Broadcom, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia stocks on July 23, the same day he unveiled his AI action plan
Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Apple has told suppliers to prepare to produce ~10M foldable iPhones in 2026, up from 7M to 8M previously, and 80M iPhones in total across new models  —  TAIPEI — Apple is planning an ambitious iPhone launch for the second half of this year and first half of 2027 with at least five …
Joe Warminsky / The Record:
The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks  —  A 19-year-old man with dual U.S. and Estonian citizenship was extradited from Finland to Chicago this week to face criminal charges …
Samantha Elkins / NBC News:
Cloudflare sets a September 15 deadline for AI companies to differentiate their web crawlers into search, AI training, and AI agents or face being blocked  —  Cloudflare gave AI crawlers a September deadline to separate the bots that gather content for search from those that harvest …
Bloomberg:
Amazon's emissions rose 16% YoY in 2025, driven by data center construction and delivery fuel, while Google's “ambition-based” emissions jumped 18% YoY in 2025  —  Amazon and Google report jumps in their greenhouse gas output as the data center boom gains momentum.
Stephen Totilo / Game File:
Sony says all new PlayStation games will only be sold in digital formats from January 2028, as digital media preference “significantly outpaces physical discs”  —  New games sold for PlayStation consoles will only be available digitally and won't be sold on discs effective January 2028, Sony has announced.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft has been working on a disc-to-digital feature for Xbox One and Xbox Series X that will let users digitize their physical game collections
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Sony says it will close the virtual PlayStation 3 store in select markets in 2026 before closing PS3 and PS Vita stores “in all other countries” in July 2027
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Z.ai launches ZCode, an “Agentic Development Environment” optimized for its new GLM-5.2 model; Z.ai's GLM Coding Plan costs from $16.20 to $144 per month  —  The move marks the company's most aggressive push yet into the fast-growing AI-powered coding tool market …
Qianer Liu / The Information:
Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip  —  Anthropic has begun early-stage work on its own AI chip and held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner …
Pew Research Center:
A survey of US adults finds 56% support banning social media for under-16s, while 21% oppose; majorities across demographic and partisan groups support a ban  —  Nearly six-in-ten U.S. adults support banning anyone under the age of 16 from using social media sites, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Ty Roush / Forbes:
Alex Karp calls US reliance on AI labs for military tech “effing insane”, pans AI fees for businesses, and touts Palantir's Nvidia Nemotron deal for US agencies  —  Topline  —  Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Wednesday called the AI industry “effing insane” in a heated interview on CNBC …
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today:
X launches Live Studio, an updated livestreaming hub within Creator Studio with a simplified desktop setup, chat control options, custom thumbnails, and more  —  Listen to the article  —  X announced an updated live-streaming command center within its Creator Studio platform …
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
German software giant SAP says it is encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, in a bid to avoid layoffs; SAP cut ~10K staff in 2024  —  The German software giant SAP says it is betting that employees can reinvent jobs instead of eliminating them.  Experts are divided on whether it will work.
Financial Times:
An EU draft proposal dated June 30 shows the bloc is weighing weaker climate impact rules for gas-powered data centers, after heavy lobbying from tech groups  —  Past proposals for strict rules on renewable energy certificates have been dropped after heavy lobbying, draft shows
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Sam Altman / Financial Times:
Sam Altman proposes a “US-led international forum” to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI available to allies  —  The labs develop the technology, but citizens and their elected representatives must make the rules

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Rob Wile / NBC News:
President Trump's 2025 financial disclosures show $80M in income from settlements tied to his lawsuits against ABC, CBS, Meta, YouTube, and other companies

Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
The EU says Paramount has committed to exit its United International Pictures distribution JV with Universal as a condition for EU approval of its WBD merger

The Guardian:
Canada will join the Eurovision song contest in 2027, becoming the first new participant since Australia in 2015; the contest will be held in Bulgaria

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New York Times:
President Trump says Micron will invest $250M in Trump Accounts; Micron says it will come via an employee matching program and a $250 deposit in some US states

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Reuters:
Alibaba and its US payment processor AUS agree to pay $600M to resolve DOJ allegations that they failed to prevent illegal sales of drugs and other products
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