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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 …
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft invests $2.5B and forms the Microsoft Frontier Company to embed 6,000 forward-deployed engineers with customers to help deploy AI systems  —  Microsoft is launching a new AI “company.”  It won't be a separate legal entity, and most of its 6,000 people already work at Microsoft.
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 …
Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Apple told suppliers to prepare to produce ~10M foldable iPhones in 2026, up from a forecast of 7M to 8M, 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 …
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Nansen: about two-thirds of Trump's memecoin investors are currently in the red, and 85% of World Liberty's $WLFI buyers on the secondary market are underwater  —  Roughly two-thirds of investors in the president's memecoin are currently in the red  —  Morten Christensen made a big bet …
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
Grace Kay / The Information:
Internal memo: Tesla plans to impose a $200-per-week limit for staff's AI spending beginning July 6; the tally excludes beta versions of xAI products  —  Tesla told employees last month it would impose a $200 per week limit for staff's AI spending beginning July 6, according to an internal memo …
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  —  President Trump said the U.S. chip maker would make a significant donation to a new type of investment account created by the administration.
Phoebe Liu / The Information:
Nvidia promises to financially backstop young cloud providers, like Firmus and Sharon AI, by renting back unused GPUs, in exchange for a share of their revenues  —  Nvidia is using its powerful balance sheet to help more companies buy its expensive AI chips, and possibly make some money back too.
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Z.ai launches ZCode, an “Agentic Development Environment” purpose-built for its GLM-5.2 model; Z.ai's GLM Coding Plan tiers range 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 …
Min-Jeong Lee / Bloomberg:
SoftBank and its telecom unit launch SB Neo to offer AI chips and cloud services to big companies, aiming to provide 10GW of capacity in the US by around 2030  —  SoftBank Group Corp. and its telecom unit will start renting AI computing resources to US companies next fiscal year …
The Information:
Memo: Microsoft is merging the consumer and enterprise versions of its Copilot chatbots into a single app featuring coding tools and AI agents dubbed AutoPilot  —  Microsoft is merging its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps and cutting unwanted features to ‘earn the right to exist’ in the eyes …
Bluesky: @feeney.dev
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 …
Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu:
UK-based StirlingX, which develops secure data intelligence systems for defense and critical infrastructure, raised a $20M Series A, following a $11M seed  —  The UK company, which develops secure data intelligence systems for defence and critical infrastructure, will use the funding …
More: BusinessCloud and UKTN
Bloomberg:
Sources: Crusoe is in active talks to raise ~$3B in a funding round expected to value the company in the ~$30B range, up from a ~$10B valuation in October  —  Crusoe, the data center upstart with contracts to supply AI computing power for the likes of Meta Platforms Inc. and Oracle Corp. …
More: Reuters
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.
Lucinda Shen / Axios:
Source: crypto payments and settlement startup Mesh is raising funding led by Binance at a ~$2B valuation, six months after raising $75M at a $1B valuation  —  Binance is set to lead Mesh's funding round that will value the crypto payments and settlement company at up to $2 billion, Axios Pro has learned.
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 …

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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Comcast co-CEO Brian Roberts' earlier bundling strategy for connectivity and content, and his plan now to unbundle in order to keep growing

Associated Press:
After a short-term hold, SCOTUS denies former Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge's bid to stay an $800-a-day fine if she refuses to reveal a source

Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability

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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 models available to allies
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