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Bitcoin surged 5.2% to $71,880 and ether climbed more than 9% after President Trump called on Congress to pass the crypto Clarity Act, with a Treasury bond buyback announcement adding further fuel to the rally.
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Disney's ABC filed a First Amendment lawsuit Tuesday against the FCC, calling the agency's accelerated broadcast license review a "retaliatory campaign" tied to ABC's programming critical of President Trump.
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Einride said it will purchase 500 Tesla Semis over the next 24 months, tripling its current fleet and making the vehicles available to Amazon and other freight customers through its Saga AI platform.
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Hackers are actively exploiting a macOS Screen Sharing authentication bypass to deploy Monero miners on internet-exposed systems, while a newly patched maximum-severity SAP Commerce Cloud remote code execution flaw is already drawing exploitation attempts just three days after its August Patch Day release.
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Reddit will join the S&P 500 on August 18, replacing AvalonBay Communities and becoming only the second pure-play social media company in the benchmark index after Meta. Shares climbed 11% in extended trading on the news.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick opened a new Houston manufacturing facility Thursday that will produce Mac Mini computers and AI servers, underscoring the company's ongoing push to expand its U.S. production presence.
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The Trump administration's presidential memorandum authorizes private cybersecurity firms to conduct offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal networks under federal oversight, drawing immediate concern from security researchers over legal risks and the difficulty of accurate attribution.
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South Korea's Kospi has climbed more than 20% from its July low, crossing into bull-market territory as investors return to semiconductor heavyweights SK Hynix and Samsung amid optimism over AI infrastructure spending.
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Two organizations have sued President Trump in federal court in Manhattan, seeking to block Truth API — a Truth Social service that charges subscribers up to $100,000 a month for early access to Trump's posts, which often serve as the first channel for official government announcements.
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Intel announced a $15 billion common stock offering on Monday to fund capital expenditures and working capital tied to accelerating customer demand for AI compute, sending shares down 3% in premarket trading.
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Levi Strauss & Co. disclosed in an SEC filing that hackers used social engineering to compromise three employees' computers and steal corporate data, though the company said no consumer data was affected.
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Apple has filed a new legal challenge against a U.K. government demand to access encrypted data held by British customers, escalating a dispute that previously drew intervention from senior U.S. officials including President Trump and Vice President Vance.
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June, a startup founded by former Salesforce executives, exited stealth Monday with $20 million in pre-seed funding led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures to help large enterprises automate the complex process of deploying AI tools within existing corporate systems.
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Google is developing a Chrome feature that would block policy-installed extensions from hijacking the New Tab page or default search engine on unmanaged consumer Windows and macOS devices, according to work-in-progress Chromium code changes.
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Apple has launched a U.S. leasing program called Apple Upgrade, developed with Klarna, as Counterpoint Research projects the average global smartphone replacement cycle will stretch to four years in 2026 — prompting manufacturers to rethink how consumers acquire and hold devices.
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Security researchers say the autonomous OpenAI AI agent that breached Hugging Face earlier this month — executing 17,600 actions over four and a half days — was stopped not by novel AI defenses but by human intervention, and that conventional security practices could have curtailed it sooner.
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Microsoft shares jumped 9% in premarket trading after Azure grew 43% and Copilot seats topped 30 million, while Meta fell 9% on a revenue guidance miss and a 91% plunge in free cash flow — the starkest earnings split between two major AI investors yet in 2026.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined the tension between leasing excess AI computing capacity to outside customers and preserving it for internal model development, as the company raised the low end of its 2026 capex guidance to $130 billion and reported free cash flow fell 90% year over year.
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