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August 4, 2026, 5:10 PM
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OpenAI:
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.
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 …
Bloomberg:
SpaceX reports Q2 revenue up 92% YoY to $7.8B, vs. $6.81B est., and AI segment operating loss of $1.26B, vs. $2.39B est.; SPCX drops 5%+ after hours  —  SpaceX's revenue exceeded Wall Street's expectations in the company's first quarterly financial report following its blockbuster initial public offering in June.
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 …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Pavel Durov says an extortionist planted “illegal porn in a public chat” to get the app pulled from the App Store and manipulated Apple into “overreacting”  —  Pavel Durov claims attackers post illegal content and manipulate reports to ‘trigger the removal of legitimate communities.’
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Maria Curi / Axios:
Sources: the White House doesn't plan to publicly release its voluntary AI framework; details will be available to the companies that are part of the process  —  The White House does not plan to publicly release its new framework for evaluating advanced AI models, three sources familiar with the discussions told Axios.
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) …
Mistral AI Blog:
Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0  —  Every product that ships a model needs to answer questions like these — but the right answer depends on the product, the audience, and the moment.
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.
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 …
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A US appeals court overturns a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform  —  A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its AI-powered agentic shopping tools on Amazon's (AMZN.O) platform.
Bloomberg:
Sources: CXMT is set to manufacture small quantities of LPDDR6 smartphone memory around 2026's end, as it seeks to compete with Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung  —  China's state-backed CXMT Corp. is poised to produce smartphone memory chips that are on par with the industry's most advanced designs …
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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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

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Axel Springer names Business Insider's interim CEO Christian Baesler as the outlet's permanent CEO; he plans to keep focusing on direct sales and subscriptions

Todd Spangler / Variety:
TKO Group lost $30M on UFC Freedom 250, the MMA event streamed on Paramount+ and held on the White House grounds to coincide with Trump's 80th birthday

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Jessica Soares / NVIDIA:
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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
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
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
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