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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI's first device will be a moveable, screen-free smart speaker with a camera and sensors, meant to serve as a humanlike AI companion  —  OpenAI's much-anticipated push into consumer devices is slated to begin with a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed to be a new type …
CNBC:
IBM stock fell 25%+ on Tuesday, sinking further than its previous worst day of October 19, 1987, after reporting preliminary Q2 results below estimates  —  International Business Machines shares plummeted 25% on Tuesday after the hardware, software and consulting provider released preliminary …
Milana Vinn / Reuters:
Sources: Stripe and PE firm Advent have jointly offered $60.50/share to acquire PayPal, a 28% premium to Tuesday's close, valuing it at $53B+; PYPL jumps 15%+  —  Payments company Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal Holdings Inc …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
OpenAI says it is “not aware of any evidence” that Apple's lawsuit alleging trade-secret theft has merit, adding that it believes in fair competition  —  OpenAI said on Tuesday that it's “not aware of any evidence” that an Apple Inc. lawsuit alleging trade-secret theft has merit.
David Ingram / NBC News:
OpenAI says Apple's claim that OpenAI never responded to its concerns is false; emails: an Apple lawyer mixed up two OpenAI staffers in Apple's initial outreach  —  A lawyer for Apple apologized for mixing up two OpenAI employees with the names Wang and Chang.
Wall Street Journal:
Meta is sued by 26 current and former employees, who allege its use of AI in May layoffs unfairly targeted workers with disabilities or on protected leave  —  Lawsuit alleges social-media company relied on AI that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who were on medical or parental leave
Muvija M / Reuters:
The UK government proposes a default overnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds and disabling features like auto-play and infinite scroll by default  —  Britain will introduce a default overnight curfew on social media apps for 16- and 17-year-olds, the government said …
Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop:
The Trump administration launches the “Gold Eagle” federal clearinghouse for sharing AI cyber threat information between the government and private sector  —  The White House said the clearinghouse has already started to receive intelligence on vulnerabilities and prioritize patches.
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg:
Sources: DeepSeek has started planning for an IPO in China and may file as soon as this year, allowing it to debut in 2027  —  Chinese AI pioneer DeepSeek has begun preparations for an initial public offering and may file as soon as this year, setting the stage for what could be a landmark debut for the country's technology industry.
April Roach / CNBC:
ASML reports Q2 net sales of €9.3B, above €8.8B est., a €2.9B net profit, above €2.6B est., and raises its 2026 net sales forecast from €36B-€40B to €43B-€45B  —  ASML on Wednesday raised its guidance for the second time this year and reported stronger …
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
PrismML launches Bonsai 27B, a model based on Qwen3.6 27B that it says runs natively on Apple devices via MLX; its CEO says Apple is evaluating the tech  —  Apple is in talks with a small Silicon Valley company that says it can shrink powerful artificial intelligence models enough to run directly …
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs a moratorium blocking new environmental permits for data centers over 50MW for up to one year, the first state to do so
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Anthropic announces a new Claude for Teachers initiative, as part of which it will provide K-12 teachers in the US free access to premium Claude features  —  Anthropic is providing free access to premium Claude AI features to K-12 teachers in the United States.  The effort is part of a new Claude for Teachers initiative.
Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:
India pledges $13.3B to boost domestic chipmaking, building on a $10B incentive program from 2021, which attracted investments from companies like Micron  —  India pledged a further 1.28 trillion rupees ($13.3 billion) to boost domestic chipmaking, advancing its ambitious bid to become a global manufacturing hub.
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
MA-based Walden Robotics, a Toyota robotics spin-off that has started selling humanoid robots, emerges from stealth with a ~$300M seed at a $1.1B valuation  —  Walden Robotics, a startup working on humanoids that was spun out of a Toyota robotics research lab, has secured approximately $300 million …
More: Inc.com
Wall Street Journal:
The UAE gained broader US AI chip access after aiding the US in the Iran war, letting G42 buy freely for at least nine months; G42 plans to become a US company  —  Gulf state's main AI firm can freely buy the chips and has a plan to become a U.S. company  —  The United Arab Emirates …
More: Axios
Connor Jones / The Register:
Researcher: SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI uploaded user repos to a Google Cloud Storage bucket; uploads have now stopped and Musk says prior uploads will be deleted  —  Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Sources: OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving the company to launch an AI drug discovery startup, and is in talks to raise $200M at a $2B valuation  —  Miles Wang, an OpenAI researcher whose work includes using AI to accelerate scientific and biological discovery, is leaving the ChatGPT maker …
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:
Anthropic faces ridicule and criticism for an ad titled “There's hope in hard questions” that unsettled viewers with weird graveyard imagery and doomer-ist tone  —  Anthropic is known for its creative marketing, but the AI company may have been a little bit too creative when it conjured up its most recent advertisement.

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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Paramount agrees to a request from 12 states, led by CA, to link their federal antitrust case in the WBD merger to an existing Paramount+ subscriber lawsuit

Reuters:
Sources: Lionsgate has attracted takeover interest from France's Bolloré Group, owner of Canal+, and Banijay, which just completed an $8B merger with All3Media

Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
BBC DG Matt Brittin says the BBC and UK public service broadcasting face “real jeopardy” as license fee erosion drives BBC's third consecutive annual deficit

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