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OpenAI:
OpenAI disputes Apple's account of pre-lawsuit contacts, rejects claims that ex-staff used confidential information, shares iMessages and emails, and more  —  Apple is one of the greatest companies of all time, and built a reputation for obsessing over the smallest details.
Reuters:
Filing: Apple asks a US judge for a preliminary injunction barring two former staff and OpenAI from accessing, acquiring, using, or disclosing confidential info  —  Apple on Monday asked a U.S. judge for a preliminary injunction barring two former employees and OpenAI from accessing …
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
Apple says it “briefly removed Telegram from the App Store” over CSAM on Monday, restoring it after Telegram “promptly removed the content and banned the user”  —  Update: 11:00 p.m. ET: In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple said: … Apple's statement came about 20 minutes after access to the app was restored.
Maria Curi / Axios:
The White House says it met its deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models, but did not provide details of the framework
The Information:
Sources: the Trump administration invites staffers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to the White House on Tuesday to review the AI oversight framework
Reuters:
Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the US software company at $1.285B, set to close by 2026-end, its first post-IPO deal  —  Bending Spoons (BSP.O) has agreed to buy Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the U.S. software firm at $1.285 billion …
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 93% YoY to $1.94B, above $1.8B est., US commercial revenue up 149%, and raises FY26 revenue guidance; PLTR jumps 14%+ pre-market  —  Palantir topped second-quarter earnings estimates on Monday and said commercial revenue more than doubled from a year ago.
Jeran Wittenstein / Bloomberg:
Amazon becomes the fifth company to reach a $3T market cap, joining Nvidia, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Apple, after hitting $2T in June 2024; AMZN closed up 4.58%  —  Amazon.com Inc. surpassed $3 trillion in market value for the first time, becoming only the fifth company to ever reach the milestone.
Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:
Source: Apple passed $10B in annual sales in India for the first time in FY 2026, up from $9B in 2024-25 and $6B in 2022-23, as it expands its retail footprint  —  Apple Inc. exceeded $10 billion in annual sales in India for the first time last fiscal year, underscoring surging demand …
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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Snap reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $1.6B, above $1.54B est., DAUs up 5% to 493M, vs. 487M est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; SNAP jumps 10%+ pre-market  —  Snap reported better-than-expected revenue and earnings for the second quarter and issued a forecast for the current period that topped analysts' estimates.
Todd Gillespie / Bloomberg:
Sources: Polymarket is in early talks with prospective investors to raise ~$1B at a $20B+ valuation, up from $15B in April 2026 and $9B in October 2025  —  Polymarket is seeking to raise capital at a valuation of more than $20 billion, months after it closed an earlier round with new investment from hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co.
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Samsung says it's restricting app registrations and removing apps with SDKs that can turn smart TVs into residential proxy exit nodes, after a similar ban by LG  —  Several popular Samsung smart TV apps contain code that share the owner's internet connection with strangers …

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David Ellison / New York Times:
David Ellison says antitrust suits against Paramount's WBD deal imagine a bygone Hollywood and are really about trust in his CNN stewardship, not market share

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Former 60 Minutes correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley plan to serve as part-time journalists-in-residence at Columbia during the coming academic year

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened to a record-setting $360M in North America, beating Avengers: Endgame's $357M; globally, it hit $932M, second to Endgame

More News

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider on the AT Protocol, ActivityPub, scaling moderation, Bluesky's reputation as a progressive social media network, and more
The Texas Tribune:
Texas halts approval of data center grid connections until audits are performed; projects representing 474+ GW are in the queue, over 5x the grid's peak demand
Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Court docs: an FBI agent has been charged with amassing ~$1M worth of cryptocurrency, largely by making unauthorized withdrawals from a criminal target overseas

Earlier Picks

The Verge:
Doc: Microsoft asks Xbox 360 game developers to opt in for PC compatibility, bringing the games to its next-gen Project Helix console, “Xbox PCs”, and handhelds
Bloomberg:
Valar, which is making small modular nuclear reactors to power data centers, raised a $1B Series B led by Sequoia at a $6B post-money valuation
Reuters:
India proposes extending tax exemptions until 2041 for foreign companies that provide machinery to contract manufacturers, changes that Apple had lobbied for
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a “backdoor” to access encrypted customer data
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
The EU's AI Act enforcement powers take effect, letting it evaluate AI models before regional release, restrict EU market access, fine model providers, and more
Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on some benchmarks and it plans to release Qwen3.8-Max's and Qwen3.8-27B's weights next week
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