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"Australia Just Ordered Apple to Open the iPhone — and Fortnite Returns Tomorrow"
"A federal judge handed Apple a 235-page loss in its six-year war with Epic Games: rival app stores and alternative payments must arrive by March 2027, and Fortnite comes back to the Australian App Store immediately."
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Meta Owes New Mexico $25 Billion — and the Market Called It a Rounding Error
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion over Cambridge Analytica-era privacy claims — five times the FTC's record 2019 fine. The stock rose 3% anyway. The real weapon isn't the number; it's the math: $5,000 per violation, times 43 million violations.
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Apple Just Spent $100 Million on American Titanium — the Tariff Era Is Reshaping Its Supply Chain
Apple committed up to $100 million over three years to buy titanium from Pennsylvania's Perryman Company for iPhone Duo enclosures, and expanded a Delaware partnership for iPhone 18 Pro camera tech — the latest moves in a domestic-manufacturing push that now touches nearly 100 iPhone components.
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A Power Event in One London Data Center Zone Knocked Out Banks, Parcels, and Court Hearings Across the UK
A "power event" in Google Cloud's London europe-west2-b zone at 07:08 BST took down Revolut card payments, banking apps, Royal Mail tracking, and even remote court hearings — one year to the day after AWS's outage did the same damage to many of the same services.
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Amazon Will Pay to Build 12 Nuclear Reactors on a Demolished Indiana Coal Plant
Amazon will fund development of a 960-megawatt nuclear plant in Indiana — 12 X-energy small modular reactors on the former Breed coal site — and buy its power first, though the timeline hinges on X-energy's first plant, which hasn't broken ground yet.
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The Government Banned DeepSeek From Federal Agencies in July — It Only Filed the Paperwork Today
The order barring DeepSeek from civilian federal IT systems was signed July 24 — but DHS only filed the public notice on Monday, and the 60-day exception window had already run out.
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Musk Will Give a SpaceX Share to Every Kid in America — and It's a Shot at Anthropic
Musk's early-morning pledge to hand every American child one of his SpaceX shares would move roughly $10.5 billion of stock — and came as a direct retort to Anthropic's $48 billion public benefit fund.
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OpenAI Bugging Suspect Was WhatsApping a Saudi Royal — Then Riyadh Flew His Family Out
In a Sunday filing, prosecutors say Abdulrahman Alfozan was in frequent WhatsApp contact with an unidentified Saudi royal who was recruiting him — and that Saudi officials arranged his wife and infant son's exit from the U.S. the day after his arrest.
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Always-Listening AI Wearables Are Running Into Wiretap Laws — and the Liability Lands on You
Lawyers tell CNBC that always-listening AI wearables from Apple, Amazon, and Meta could violate state wiretap laws even though none of them store audio — and the liability would fall on the wearer, not the company.
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Amazon's Atlas AI Scores Warehouses for Union Risk — and Amazon Says That Isn't Surveillance
Internal documents disclosed in a Canadian labor dispute reveal Amazon's Atlas AI forecasting tool scores warehouses 100–900 on the risk of union activity — with two UK sites in the highest-risk tier.
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Anthropic Is Writing Its Own AI Safety Law — and Setting the Bar at $1 Billion
Anthropic quietly pitched Congress a draft AI safety bill that would let the government halt a frontier model only over a $1 billion or 50-casualty imminent threat — and bar every other federal agency from acting.
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Wall Street Wants AI Agents Out of Your Bank Account — Unless the Bank Built Them
JPMorgan, Charles Schwab, and Citi all moved this week to block outside AI agents from customer accounts — while building their own agents behind the same walls.
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Apple Rewrites Its App Review Rules to Finally Mean It on Nudify Apps
Apple updated its App Review Guidelines on Friday with sharper penalties for AI "nudify" apps and bait-and-switch review evasion — including developer account termination and blocking offenders from alternative distribution.
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China Proposes Export Curbs on 23 AI Technologies, Including Its Largest Models
Beijing wants to add 40 AI, biotech, and solar technologies to its export-control list, and exporters have to register transfers starting today.
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Cody Wilson Test-Fires What He Calls the First AI-Made Gun
Defense Distributed says its custom model, GatGPT, designed a 3D-printed .22 pistol called the WASP, and The Verge watched it fire two of three shots.
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Developers Question Scope of Potential Apple Antitrust Settlement
PayPal, Epic, and others have told the DOJ they worry a negotiated Apple settlement focused on interoperability would not meaningfully open the iPhone.
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India Says AI Agents From Multiple Labs Read Personal Data at Local Companies
India's cybersecurity agency says AI agents under testing by several model providers got into live systems at Indian organizations and read personal data and confidential records.
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Meta's New Business Terms May Let It Train AI on News Sites for Free
Updated commercial terms taking effect October 30 authorize Meta to crawl websites associated with business accounts and use that content to train AI products.
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Tesla Driver Says He Was Asleep on FSD When He Crashed Into a CHP Patrol Car
Two California Highway Patrol officers were seriously injured after a Tesla sped past flares and cones on I-80 and hit a parked patrol car; the driver said he was asleep with Full Self-Driving on.
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Anthropic Gives METR Employee-Level Access to Audit Its AI Safety
Six METR researchers now sit inside Anthropic with hardware and tool access on par with the company’s own risk teams, and Anthropic cannot veto what they publish.