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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.
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  —  Apple Inc.'s Phil Schiller, one of the most visible and influential executives across both the Steve Jobs and Tim Cook eras …
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.
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” …
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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.
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.
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.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Nvidia plans to 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. … Nvidia is officially launching DLSS 5 this week …
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 …
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 adviser to Polymarket  —  Venture capital firm 1789 Capital is leading a new funding round for Polymarket that will give the prediction-markets platform a $21 billion post-money valuation.
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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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
In a Truth Social post, Trump endorses a US tax incentive for film and TV production; the MPA has worked with Jon Voight to push for a 20% credit on labor costs

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sources: WPP plans to cut up to 1,000 more jobs in H2 2026, after cutting ~11,000 jobs since the start of 2025, as AI reshapes the ad industry

Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters:
Court filing: California, 11 other states, and WGA ask a judge to deny Paramount's $1.88B bond request, arguing any damages Paramount incurs are self-imposed

More News

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google raises the price of its Google TV Streamer by $50 to $150 in the US, as well as for “select” Nest cameras and doorbells, citing “rising component costs”
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 such permits
Kris Holt / Engadget:
Sony launches Live TV on PS5 in the US, letting users stream 100+ free, ad-supported TV channels with content from Amazon MGM Studios, Crunchyroll, and more

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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Trump says communities that reject data centers will end up “backwards and poor” and that “China could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement”
Andreessen Horowitz:
a16z says its fifth growth fund has closed additional capital, bringing its total to $8.5B, calling it “the obvious thing to do” for its founders and LPs
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
MapQuest becomes the top free iPhone app on the App Store in Canada and fourth on the US App Store, after refusing to change Lake Ontario to Lake America
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
The EU designates ChatGPT as a very large online search engine, and Reddit and Roblox as very large online platforms after each hit 45M monthly users in the EU
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