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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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| 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 … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: ChainDrop, a Shai-Hulud-based worm, has compromised 1,300+ npm packages, like Keyv, Cacheable, and flat-cache, with a combined 2B monthly downloads — Self-propagating malware named ‘ChainDrop’ has compromised more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry.| 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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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Anthropic names Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, an ex-California Supreme Court justice and a special assistant in Obama's WH, as its first global affairs chief — Anthropic on Tuesday named Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar its first chief global affairs officer, as the developer …
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| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
New Jersey files an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging it abuses its dominance to impose low pay and poor conditions on independent delivery drivers — New Jersey sued Amazon.com on Tuesday, accusing the online retailer of abusing its market power over independent delivery drivers.| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Sandisk and SK Hynix announce the High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) open specification that enables up to 512GB memory modules with 0.4 TB/s to 3.0 TB/s bandwidth — The specification is here, but what about the interest? … The specification was released through the Open Compute Project (OCP) …
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| 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
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| Reuters: |
Sources: the US is preparing to set a price floor and impose tariffs on polysilicon, a material critical to chips, later this month, in a bid to counter China — The Trump administration is preparing to set a price floor and impose tariffs on polysilicon and related products … | 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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| 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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| 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 …
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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 … | Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Internal email: Microsoft introduces token budget limits for employees' AI use, saying “tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for” — Microsoft is introducing budget limits for AI use but says it still wants to be an ‘AI-first’ company. — Microsoft has introduced … | Emily Steel / New York Times: |
Uber is defending 4,000+ rider sexual-violence lawsuits by aggressively examining plaintiffs' drinking, clothing, and more, after promising to protect survivors — A 24-year-old woman logged onto a videoconference from her bedroom in Florida on a Friday morning in April 2025 to face a deposition in her lawsuit against Uber.
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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 … | 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.
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| Jimmy Jenkins / Bloomberg: |
The DOJ secures a $3.2M settlement from OpenAI to resolve allegations it discriminated against US workers by preferring workers with temporary employment visas — A unit of OpenAI has reached a settlement with the US Justice Department to resolve allegations that the California-based … | 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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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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