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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
On his last day as CEO, Tim Cook sends a memo to Apple employees reflecting on his time and says he takes “enormous comfort in handing the helm” to John Ternus  —  Today is Tim Cook's last day as Apple CEO, with John Ternus set to take over tomorrow.
Kalley Huang / New York Times:
John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO and Tim Cook becomes executive chair; sources say Laura Legros, an Apple hardware VP who retired in 2022, has rejoined Apple  —  Big technology and management changes are greeting John Ternus, whose long-serving predecessor, Tim Cook, will stay on as executive chair.
Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Under Tim Cook, Apple's market cap grew from less than $350B in 2011 to $4.6T, revenue went from $157B in FY 2012 to ~$477B in FY 2026, and shares rose 2,258%  —  Apple Inc.'s Tim Cook handed over the reins to John Ternus on Tuesday, capping a tenure as chief executive officer that cemented …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Phil Schiller has stepped down from his role leading Apple's App Store and product events; he will remain at Apple to work on unspecified initiatives
About Amazon:
Amazon says the FTC's complaint over Sponsored Ads cites no evidence of consumer price increases or advertiser harm, and misunderstands how advertisers operate  —  The FTC today filed a misguided lawsuit claiming Amazon misled advertisers about its Sponsored Ads pricing and auction.
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
The US FTC and 22 state AGs sue Amazon, alleging it overcharged advertisers by $20B+ since 2019 via hidden surcharges, with costs largely passed on to consumers  —  The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued Amazon, alleging the e-commerce giant “secretly and systematically overcharged” …
Deepa Seetharaman / Reuters:
Filing: OpenAI denies Apple's allegations of trade secret theft, saying “this dispute is a mess of Apple's own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else”  —  OpenAI denied Apple's allegations of trade secret theft on Monday, saying the iPhone maker failed to show …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Filing: Apple claims a former iPhone engineer used a confidential Apple circuit schematic in his work at OpenAI, says “evidence is being destroyed”, and more  —  Apple has filed a new document in its ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI as it continues to push for expedited discovery.
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Dyson unveils the $499 CameraJet, an AI-powered toothbrush with a 100K-pixel macro lens that scans at 28 images per second and is trained on nearly 470K images  —  Dyson Ltd. introduced a $499 toothbrush that uses artificial intelligence and a built-in camera to give real-time feedback …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Nvidia says it will launch DLSS 5 on September 3 on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now, following a divisive announcement in March  —  DLSS 5 is almost here, but only for NBA 2K27, and only officially for 50-series RTX GPUs.
Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Anthropic has signed a $35B cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda; Nvidia will hold the lease on, and supply chips to, a Hut 8-built Texas data center  —  Nvidia will supply chips to Texas data center and hold the lease, another example of the company using its financial might to boost a customer
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Microsoft says it is testing a fix to an outage affecting Exchange Online and Outlook, lasting for 17+ hours from around 11:30AM ET on Monday  —  Snow day?  Microsoft on Monday confirmed a widespread, multi-hour outage affecting Outlook users, leading to email delays and failures, authentication issues, and other problems.
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Roku unveils its first self-branded OLED smart TVs starting at $999, in 55" and 65" 120Hz models, and $1,299 for a 144Hz model, sold exclusively via Amazon  —  Roku Inc. introduced its first self-branded smart TVs with organic light emitting diode, or OLED, display technology …
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Sonos opens its platform to third-party AI assistants, upgrades Sonos 27voice assistant with an in-house LLM, and plans to let users create their own AI agents  —  As the company opens its platform to AI assistants, Chief Executive Officer Tom Conrad wants to reposition Sonos as something bigger than a speaker brand.
Anthropic:
Anthropic details security efforts following Claude cyber evaluation incidents, including a weeks-long pause on higher-risk RL and work to curb reward hacking  —  On July 30, we reported three incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems.

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New York Times:
Sources: Trump's new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was fired Friday, after less than a week on the job

Washington Post:
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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
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Ryan Gillespie / Orlando Sentinel:
Florida says it is revoking permits for Flock cameras and similar license-plate readers on state roads and no longer intends to issue permits for the cameras
Amanda L. Gordon / Bloomberg:
Sources: Polymarket is set to raise $1B led by 1789 Capital at a $21B post-money valuation; Donald Trump Jr. is a partner at 1789 and an adviser to Polymarket
Kris Holt / Engadget:
Sony launches Live TV on PS5 in the US, letting users stream 100+ free, ad-supported channels with content from Amazon MGM Studios, Crunchyroll, Fox, and more
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Trump says US communities that reject data centers will end up “backwards and poor” and that “China could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement”
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