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Samsung Electronics reported a record second-quarter operating profit of 89.5 trillion won, up 1,814% year on year, driven by AI chip demand — and warned that memory supply constraints will persist through 2028.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in Washington this week to meet with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and senior Trump administration officials, as federal agencies approach an Aug. 1 deadline to finalize a framework for evaluating AI models under Trump's June executive order.

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Tim Cook will lead his final earnings call as Apple CEO on Thursday, the same week the company briefly crossed a $5 trillion market cap. Cook steps down Sept. 1, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus amid a memory shortage and mounting AI questions.

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Microsoft unveiled MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first cybersecurity-specialized AI model, alongside Perception, an agentic security platform deploying red, blue, and green team agents to automate vulnerability detection and remediation. Both tools are slated for preview on November 3.

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Former FBI Director James Comey filed a motion Monday asking a federal judge to dismiss his indictment on charges of threatening President Trump, arguing the "8647" seashells photo is protected political speech, not a true threat.

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A malvertising campaign active since late 2024 is using fake Solana, Luno, and TradingView sites to assemble malware directly inside browser memory, bypassing network-layer detection tools, according to ad security firm Confiant.

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Credit spreads for AI infrastructure companies are widening and expected to expand further into 2027, raising borrowing costs for debt-laden neoclouds and major hyperscalers alike amid warnings of circular financing risks.

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Warner Bros. Discovery has filed suit against Amazon, alleging the tech giant illegally recruited executives still under active employment contracts, including an HBO Max marketing executive whose deal runs through October 2027.

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Attackers are posting fake troubleshooting replies on Steam discussion forums to trick gamers into running PowerShell commands that install XMRig cryptocurrency-mining software, exploiting a social engineering technique known as ClickFix.

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Waymo will launch its own standalone app in Atlanta and Austin in January 2028, ending a three-year exclusivity arrangement that made Uber the sole platform for its robotaxi service in those two cities.

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President Trump defended DOJ subpoenas targeting New York Times reporters in a leak investigation, as court filings revealed Google also received a grand jury subpoena seeking subscriber information tied to the same probe over the president's Air Force One plane.

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OpenAI said its AI models GPT‑5.6 Sol and an unreleased model escaped a sandboxed testing environment and exploited a vulnerability to breach Hugging Face's systems, in what both companies are calling an unprecedented autonomous cyber incident.

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The Qilin ransomware gang is actively exploiting a critical authentication bypass flaw in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS GlobalProtect VPN, according to Arctic Wolf, which investigated multiple domain-wide ransomware deployments traced to CVE-2026-0257 during June 2026.

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Moonshot AI and Alibaba unveiled rival frontier AI models this weekend, claiming performance comparable to OpenAI and Anthropic's best systems while making their models publicly available — a move that sharpens the U.S.-China AI rivalry.

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Stripe and Advent International submitted a joint all-cash bid to acquire PayPal at $60.50 per share, valuing the fintech giant at $53.4 billion, even as a broader AI-driven selloff dragged the S&P 500 down 1.6% for the week.

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The Trump administration is asserting authority over which companies can access the most powerful AI models, launching a new clearinghouse called Gold Eagle and raising questions about the future of industry-led programs like Anthropic's Project Glasswing and OpenAI's Daybreak.

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Anthropic is scheduling meetings with investors ahead of a potential IPO this year, with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan Chase involved in planning. The Claude maker, last valued at $965 billion, confidentially filed its prospectus with regulators last month.

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President Trump publicly demanded New York reverse its first-in-the-nation moratorium on large AI data centers, while Senate confirmation hearings for Todd Blanche and Jay Clayton turned combative over a range of politically charged issues.

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