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Midjourney has filed to broaden document discovery in its copyright dispute with Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros., seeking evidence of whether the studios use AI internally in ways similar to what they are suing Midjourney for doing.
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Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code starting July 10, classifying the tool as high-risk software and redirecting staff to its own Qoder platform amid ongoing U.S.-China AI access tensions.
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The 2026 FIFA World Cup pushed prediction market trading to record levels in June, with Kalshi topping $31 billion in notional volume and Polymarket's international platform setting an all-time monthly high of $10.8 billion.
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Federal and local agencies have deployed a $250 million surveillance network across U.S. World Cup host cities, combining counter-drone technology, facial recognition cameras, and expanded legal authorities — raising concerns the infrastructure will remain long after the summer's events conclude.
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Reps. Dan Meuser and Gil Cisneros are the first members of Congress known to have disclosed SpaceX stock purchases after the company's record $75 billion IPO in June, filings show, with more disclosures expected in coming weeks.
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Europe's top financial regulators and central bankers, including the FCA's Nikhil Rathi and ECB President Christine Lagarde, warned this week that artificial intelligence is advancing faster than existing regulatory frameworks can handle, raising risks to market integrity and financial stability.
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Amazon devices chief Panos Panay publicly disclosed for the first time that the company is designing its own chips for consumer electronics, while outlining a vision of AI-powered, screenless computing centered on an upgraded Alexa+ assistant.
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Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 returned to general availability after a Commerce Department ban lift, but users report widespread performance issues stemming from overly aggressive safety guardrails that frequently route tasks to the less capable Opus 4.8 model.
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Guggenheim upgraded Salesforce and ServiceNow to buy on Wednesday, arguing AI will pressure but not kill the platforms, sending shares up more than 5% and 6%, respectively, in midday trading.
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A ransomware group called World Leaks has posted stolen Tata Electronics files on the dark web, exposing supplier maps, component details, and drop-test photos tied to Apple's unreleased iPhone 18 Pro models.
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The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday that President Trump cannot fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook for now, rejecting the administration's bid to stay a lower court order while her lawsuit challenging her dismissal proceeds.
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Suno has launched Spark, an incubator program offering grants and mentorship to unsigned artists, but contractual terms requiring broad licensing rights, a class action waiver, and a non-disparagement clause have drawn sharp criticism from the musician community.
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China's LineShine supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen has topped the TOP500 rankings, becoming the first system to surpass 2,000 exaflops and displacing the U.S.-built El Capitan — despite American export restrictions on advanced chips.
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GE Vernova's Greenville, South Carolina, gas turbine factory is running at full capacity through 2029 as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle race to secure reliable power for AI data centers, with turbine prices up 300% in three years.
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Oracle shares fell 19% this week — the steepest weekly decline since the dot-com bust in August 2001 — as investors raised alarms over the company's $130 billion debt load and its aggressive AI infrastructure buildout.
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Polish authorities, with FBI and HSI support, arrested four members of a cybercrime ring accused of SIM-swapping attacks that hijacked cryptocurrency exchange accounts and laundered an estimated $5 million or more through accounts across multiple countries.
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Notion is shutting down Notion Mail on September 22, saying more than half of its users already manage email through AI agents without opening the inbox — a move that also closes the chapter on the Skiff email infrastructure Notion acquired in 2024.
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Microsoft will raise Xbox Series S and Series X console prices by $100 to $150 starting August 1, blaming memory and storage costs that have more than doubled as AI chipmakers compete for limited supply.
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