Elon Musk says that Apple “makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI” to top its App Store, an “antitrust violation”, and xAI will take legal action
Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday his artificial intelligence startup xAI would take legal action against Apple …
President Trump meets with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and says his Cabinet members would continue talks with him in the coming days, after calling for his resignation
President Donald Trump said members of his Cabinet would continue discussions with Lip-Bu Tan in the coming days after meeting …
Epic says it is bringing Fortnite back to iOS in Australia “at a date to be determined”, after a judge ruled Apple and Google's app stores are anticompetitive
Apple and Google's losses in Australian antitrust cases could be a win for Epic Games.
Sources: Chinese authorities urge local companies to avoid using less advanced US chips, particularly Nvidia's H20s, for government or national security work
Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks global trade. Sign up here. — Beijing has urged local companies …
ESET says two Russian cybercrime groups are exploiting a high-severity WinRAR zero-day, backdooring computers that open malicious archives in phishing messages
A high-severity zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file compressor is under active exploitation by two Russian cybercrime groups.
An Australian federal judge rules Apple and Google engaged in anticompetitive conduct by misusing their app store market power, but rejects Epic's other claims
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In US court, Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon says he will plead guilty to charges of conspiracy and wire fraud under an agreement with prosecutors
Terraform Labs Pte. co-founder Do Kwon pleaded guilty to charges in a US fraud prosecution tied to the $40 billion collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin in 2022.
Nvidia announces two Blackwell workstation GPUs with a 70W TDP, the RTX PRO 4000 SFF and the RTX PRO 2000, featuring compact designs and available later in 2025
NVIDIA updates RTX Pro Blackwell series with entry-level SKUs — Based on GB203 and GB206 GPUs.
Circle reports Q2 revenue up 53% YoY to $658M, USDC circulation up 90% YoY to $61.3B, a $482M net loss, and unveils Arc, a stablecoin-focused Layer 1 blockchain
- Circle is planning to launch a stablecoin-focused EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain called Arc.
Anthropic signs a deal to offer Claude to US lawmakers for $1/year, following OpenAI; a source says Google is in talks to offer Gemini on similarly cheap terms
Group follows rival OpenAI in making enterprise tools available to government branches — Anthropic will offer its Claude chatbot …
How Jensen Huang successfully lobbied Trump to resume Nvidia's H20 sales to China; US officials hadn't vetted the 20% pay-to-play proposal when Trump offered it
Amrith Ramkumar and Robbie Whelan, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Emma Roth / The Verge : US demands cut of Nvidia sales in order to ship AI chips to China Arjun Kharpal / CNBC : T...
Q&A with AMD CEO Lisa Su on AI accelerators, US manufacturing, becoming AMD's CEO in 2014, OpenAI, Tesla, xAI, China, ROCm, aiming to surpass Nvidia, and more
While everyone else has been talking about Nvidia's GPUs, Lisa Su has discreetly turned AMD into a chipmaking phenom.
Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing every page but its homepage, after catching AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine
it was illegally collected by AI companies Andrew Nusca / Fortune : Ford's new EV strategy includes $2 billion U.S. investment Amanda Yeo / Mashable : Reddit is blocking Wayback Machine from archiving...
Indian entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia partners with GoDaddy to offer enterprises his email service Titan, which costs $2+ per month, aiming for 10M+ users by 2029
Indian tech entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia is partnering GoDaddy Inc. to offer his artificial intelligence-led email service …
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he will “leave GitHub to become a founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization
once independent programming site now part of ‘CoreAI’ team Todd Bishop / GeekWire : GitHub will join Microsoft's CoreAI division with departure of CEO Thomas Dohmke Kaustubh Bagalkote / Benzinga : Mi...
xAI makes Grok 4 free for all users worldwide, after making Grok Imagine free for all US users; Grok 4 Heavy remains exclusive to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers
Omair Pall / Mashable India :
A look at potential issues as US judges follow lawyers in testing generative AI; some want to expedite legal research, summarize cases, and draft routine orders
The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes and for humans to miss those mistakes has been on full display in the US legal system as of late. Bluesky: @hypervisible . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to...
The Trump family's crypto business, World Liberty Financial, is using publicly listed company ALT5 Sigma to raise $1.5B for the purchase of its WLFI token
Ben Weiss / Fortune :
Nvidia debuts a new Omniverse SDK and Cosmos world foundation models for robotics developers, like Cosmos Reason, a 7B-parameter reasoning vision language model
Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch :
Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal
and getting new tools for spending it at home Ashley Capoot / CNBC : Perplexity offers to buy Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion Bluesky: Jake / @jake.sooscreek.productions : I'm reminded of th...
A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors' IDs, but says it can file new challenges
Europe is not allowed to make Internet Laws. — arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ... Hari Kunzru / @harikunzru : There is a possible future in which the UK government ends up blocking Wikipedia to save f...
Paxos applies to create a US national trust bank, which would let it manage and hold assets on behalf of customers, following Circle's and Ripple's applications
Here's why that matters Paxos : Paxos to Pursue National Trust Charter with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Ronaldo Marquez / Bitcoin Insider : Paxos Applies To Establish National Trust ...
Anthropic adds a memory feature to let Claude reference information from past chats, available now to Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers, and soon to others
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac :
How Larry Ellison is focusing his philanthropic efforts on the Oxford-based, for-profit Ellison Institute of Technology, promising to spend £1B on the project
Oracle's co-founder and the world's second-richest person pledges to concentrate his vast resources on his own research institute …
Sea reports Q2 revenue up 38% YoY to $5.26B, vs. $5B est., a $414M net income, vs. $444M est., Shopee revenue up 34% YoY to $3.8B, driven by commissions and ads
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The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, sues Perplexity, alleging unauthorized use of copyrighted material, and seeks ~$14.7M in damages
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab :
Google and IBM believe the first industrial-scale quantum computer is in sight, potentially by 2030, but challenges like scaling from <200 to 1M+ qubits remain
Recent breakthroughs have revived confidence about creating full-scale quantum systems by end of the decade
SEC filing: crypto exchange Bullish increased the size and price of its US IPO to sell 30M shares for $32 to $33 each, up from 20.3M shares for $28 to $31 each
Charles Capel / Bloomberg :
Source: StubHub now aims to hold its IPO in September, after pausing in April; it filed an updated IPO prospectus, reporting Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to $397.6M
Q&A with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Notion becoming the “AI workspace that works for you”, being profitable, B2B vs. B2C, usage-based pricing for AI, and more
Casey Newton / The Verge : Bluesky: @caseynewton , @nickstatt , and @reckless . X: @notionhq Bluesky: Casey Newton / @caseynewton : For Decoder this week, I talked with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao about wha...
How Google's, Meta's, and Apple's pledges to spend billions on new Silicon Valley housing failed to meet expectations; Apple spent $1.6B+ by July 2024, the most
Nicole Friedman / Wall Street Journal :
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