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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.
More: 9to5Mac and RuntimeWire
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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 …
More: MacTech.com
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
The White House says it has met its deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models; it did not provide details of the framework — The White House said on Monday it met its deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models …
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Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 93% YoY to $1.94B, vs. $1.8B est., US commercial revenue up 149%, and raises FY'26 revenue guidance; PLTR jumps 14%+ after hours — Palantir topped second-quarter earnings estimates on Monday and said commercial revenue more than doubled from a year ago.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Snap reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $1.6B, vs. $1.54B est., DAUs up 5% to 493M, vs. 487M est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; SNAP jumps 10%+ after hours — Snap reported better-than-expected revenue and earnings for the second quarter and issued a forecast for the current period that topped analysts' estimates.| Jeran Wittenstein / Bloomberg: |
Amazon becomes the fifth company to reach a $3T market cap, joining Nvidia, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Apple; its stock closed up 4.58% on Monday — Amazon.com Inc. surpassed $3 trillion in market value for the first time, becoming only the fifth company to ever reach the milestone.
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| 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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| 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 — On Monday, the governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit … | Michael Kan / PCMag: |
US satellite internet provider Hughesnet files for Chapter 11 after losing subscribers to Starlink and plans to focus on business and government customers — US satellite internet provider Hughesnet has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after running low on cash and losing subscribers to Starlink.| 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 — The disc to digital program seems like it's close to launching, too.
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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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| 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 — Today, I'm talking with Toni Schneider, who is the brand new CEO of the social platform Bluesky — he formally took over after a short stint as interim CEO.
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| 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 — Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion funding round for Valar Atomics Inc. that the nuclear startup says will help it shift from demonstrating small reactors to producing them in volume.
More: Valar Atomics, SiliconANGLE, The Deep View, WOWTALE, TechCrunch, Unite.AI, Axios, and Wall Street Journal. X: @isaiah_p_taylor
| 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 — iPhone maker files complaint over latest government demand to allow access to encrypted user data
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: to fight critics on social media, DHS sent platforms hundreds of subpoenas and asked posters to sign letters saying speech about ICE “may” be a crime — Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements| 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.
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| 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 — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released its latest flagship AI model, with performance claims putting it alongside global leaders like Anthropic's Fable.
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