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Meta settled a landmark Kentucky school district lawsuit over alleged addictive platform design and faced a new Texas AG suit challenging WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption claims, capping a legally turbulent week for the company.

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Qualcomm shares surged 12% on Friday and are now up 75% in the past month, driven by a new Stellantis deal, a reported OpenAI chip partnership, and growing investor confidence in the chipmaker's edge AI and data center ambitions.

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SpaceX launched its Starship V3 rocket Friday — the vehicle's 12th test flight and first in seven months — days after the company publicly filed for an IPO expected to raise approximately $75 billion next month.

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Meta has launched Forum, a standalone iOS app built on Facebook Groups designed to compete with Reddit for online community discussions. Reddit shares fell roughly 6% on Friday following the announcement.

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CISA has launched a public nomination form allowing security researchers, vendors, and industry partners to submit vulnerabilities for addition to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, broadening a program central to federal and private-sector cybersecurity triage.

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President Trump defended the DOJ's newly created $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" on Friday, even as Senate Republicans — including Sens. Thom Tillis and Mitch McConnell — called it a "slush fund" and GOP leadership scrapped scheduled votes over the controversy.

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SpaceX scrubbed the 12th test flight of its Starship V3 rocket Thursday and rescheduled for Friday, one day after filing its IPO prospectus — marking what may be the company's last chance to impress investors before going public.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced letters of intent to award $2 billion in grants to nine quantum computing firms, with IBM receiving the largest share at $1 billion. The U.S. government will take a minority, non-controlling equity stake in each recipient company.

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Bouygues CEO Olivier Roussat warned Thursday that Europe is dangerously over-reliant on U.S. satellite and AI infrastructure, citing Starlink in particular, even as his company pursues a 20.35 billion euro bid for French telecoms operator SFR.

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Goldman Sachs and UBS say AI investment and energy resilience are splitting Asian equity markets, with South Korea and Taiwan leading gains while South Asian markets lag and energy vulnerability weighs.

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Google revealed its first audio smart glasses at the I/O developers conference on Tuesday, partnering with Samsung, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster on Gemini-powered wearables set to launch this fall.

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AT&T plans to invest roughly $38 billion over the next five years on blue-collar skilled workers, even as AI-driven hiring slowdowns squeeze opportunities for new college graduates across professional industries.

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AI adoption across corporate America is slowing entry-level hiring for college graduates while fueling urgent demand for skilled trade workers, as companies like AT&T commit billions to blue-collar workforce expansion.

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A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., heard arguments Tuesday in Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon over its designation as a supply chain risk — a label that restricts defense contractors from using the company's Claude AI models.

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A jury unanimously dismissed all claims in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, finding two counts barred by the statute of limitations after roughly two hours of deliberation. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers accepted the advisory verdict.

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President Trump told Fortune he regrets not asking for a larger slice of Intel after the U.S. government took a 9.9% stake in the chipmaker — a deal that has since delivered more than 300% in stock gains.

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Meta is set to begin cutting approximately 8,000 jobs — about 10% of its workforce — starting Wednesday, as the company cancels 6,000 open roles and raises its 2026 AI capital expenditure guidance to as high as $145 billion.

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Meta is beginning an approximately 8,000-person layoff round on Wednesday — about 10% of its workforce — as CEO Mark Zuckerberg accelerates AI investment and drops the apologetic tone that defined earlier rounds of cuts.

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