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OpenAI disputes Apple's account of pre-lawsuit communications, rejects claims that ex-employees used confidential info, 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.
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| 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 … | 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's 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 …
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| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
Sources: the FCC is drafting a restriction on US imports of new models of Chinese data center optical transceivers, set to take effect upon publication in 2026 — The Trump administration is drafting a ban on U.S. imports of new models of Chinese data center components …
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| 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: — “We briefly removed Telegram …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic agreed to a $10B deal for computing capacity in Norway from Nvidia-backed AI cloud startup Volta Infra, which says the deal is for six years — Anthropic PBC has struck a $10 billion deal for computing capacity from a months-old infrastructure startup … | New York Times: |
Sources: the US is focused on promoting US AI models to be more competitive, after officials considered taking a more interventionist approach to open-source AI — The Trump administration has struggled over how to approach to “open source” models, which are freely available to download and favored by Chinese companies.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: HP, Asus, and Acer have started using small amounts of DRAM chips from CXMT in their laptops for non-US markets, amid an unprecedented memory shortage — TAIPEI — Leading PC makers HP, Asus and Acer have started to use small amounts of chips from China's ChangXin Memory Technologies amid …
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| Bloomberg: |
In a rare interview, Huawei's top chip scientist, Liao Heng, warns of the looming physical limits Western chipmakers face and lauds Huawei's Tau Scaling Law — Huawei Technologies Co.'s top semiconductor scientist warned of the looming physical limits Western chipmaking giants including Nvidia Corp. face … | Financial Times: |
Sources and filings: Google assembled a ~$200B financing program for Anthropic, with $150B+ tied to TPUs and involving Broadcom, Blackstone, Apollo, and others — Private credit, chip leases and data centre guarantees underpin a vast new model for AI spending| 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 … | The Texas Tribune: |
Texas halts approval of data center grid connections until regulators can perform audits; 474+ GW of projects are in the queue, over 5x the grid's peak demand — On Monday, the governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit … | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: |
HappyRobot, which uses AI to automate freight operator communications, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, after a $44M Series B in September 2025 — Pablo Palafox likes to say his company is “getting started” even as its valuation just crossed ten figures.
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 93% YoY to $1.94B, above $1.8B est., US commercial revenue up 149% YoY to $764M, and lifts FY26 revenue guidance; PLTR jumps 20%+ — Palantir topped second-quarter earnings estimates on Monday and said commercial revenue more than doubled from a year ago.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Beijing is growing concerned about the cyber capabilities of Mythos and other US-developed frontier AI models and their potential as offensive weapons — China is growing anxious that Anthropic PBC's Mythos could be wielded against the world's second-biggest economy …
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| Joe Wilkins / Futurism: |
Analysis: in 2026 so far, US police arrested at least 37 people in connection to data center protests and intervened to prevent confrontations in 12 more cases — People are rising up everywhere. … It takes a lot to get your typical white-bread American riled up enough that they're willing to go to jail.| Joseph Cotterill / Financial Times: |
A World Bank report says developing economies stand to benefit more from AI boosting their workers' output than they will lose in jobs being replaced by AI — World Bank says workers in poorer economies more likely to benefit from the technology than be replaced by it| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to €4.78B, Premium Subscribers up 9% YoY to 300M, MAUs up 12% YoY to 777M, below its 778M guidance, and a €545M net income — Music streamer's Q2 2026 subscription revenue increases 15% and ad revenue ticks up 1%| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
Obsidian Security, which helps companies secure AI agents, raised an $85M Series D at a $1.1B valuation, after raising a $90M Series C in April 2022 — Obsidian Security said on Tuesday it had raised $85 million in a Series D funding round that valued the AI security startup at $1.1 billion …
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