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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
On his last day as CEO, Tim Cook sends a memo to Apple employees reflecting on his time and says he takes “enormous comfort in handing the helm” to John Ternus — Today is Tim Cook's last day as Apple CEO, with John Ternus set to take over tomorrow.
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| Kalley Huang / New York Times: |
John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO and Tim Cook becomes executive chair; sources say Laura Legros, an Apple hardware VP who retired in 2022, has rejoined Apple — Big technology and management changes are greeting John Ternus, whose long-serving predecessor, Tim Cook, will stay on as executive chair.
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| Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
Under Tim Cook, Apple's market cap grew from less than $350B in 2011 to $4.6T, revenue went from $157B in FY 2012 to ~$477B in FY 2026, and shares rose 2,258% — Apple Inc.'s Tim Cook handed over the reins to John Ternus on Tuesday, capping a tenure as chief executive officer that cemented …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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| About Amazon: |
Amazon says the FTC's complaint over Sponsored Ads cites no evidence of consumer price increases or advertiser harm, and misunderstands how advertisers operate — The FTC today filed a misguided lawsuit claiming Amazon misled advertisers about its Sponsored Ads pricing and auction.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
The US FTC and 22 state AGs sue Amazon, alleging it overcharged advertisers by $20B+ since 2019 via hidden surcharges, with costs largely passed on to consumers — The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued Amazon, alleging the e-commerce giant “secretly and systematically overcharged” …
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Reuters: |
Filing: OpenAI denies Apple's allegations of trade secret theft, saying “this dispute is a mess of Apple's own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else” — OpenAI denied Apple's allegations of trade secret theft on Monday, saying the iPhone maker failed to show … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Filing: Apple claims a former iPhone engineer used a confidential Apple circuit schematic in his work at OpenAI, says “evidence is being destroyed”, and more — Apple has filed a new document in its ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI as it continues to push for expedited discovery.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Nvidia says it will launch DLSS 5 on September 3 on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now, following a divisive announcement in March — DLSS 5 is almost here, but only for NBA 2K27, and only officially for 50-series RTX GPUs.| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Dyson unveils the $499 CameraJet, an AI-powered toothbrush with a 100K-pixel macro lens that scans at 28 images per second and is trained on nearly 470K images — Dyson Ltd. introduced a $499 toothbrush that uses artificial intelligence and a built-in camera to give real-time feedback …
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Savvy Games Group CEO Brian Ward, who oversaw the Saudi Arabian government's $38B investment in the video game industry since 2021, is stepping down — Savvy Games Group Chief Executive Officer Brian Ward, who oversaw the Saudi Arabian government's $38 billion investment in the video-game industry … | Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Anthropic has signed a $35B cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda; Nvidia will hold the lease on, and supply chips to, a Hut 8-built Texas data center — Nvidia will supply chips to Texas data center and hold the lease, another example of the company using its financial might to boost a customer
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says it is testing a fix to an outage affecting Exchange Online and Outlook, lasting for 17+ hours from around 11:30AM ET on Monday — Snow day? Microsoft on Monday confirmed a widespread, multi-hour outage affecting Outlook users, leading to email delays and failures, authentication issues, and other problems.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Mozilla launches built-in ad blocking for Firefox on iOS, using Apple's WebKit Content Blocker and the EasyList filter to block third-party ads and trackers — Mozilla is using Apple's WebKit Content Blocker technology and the EasyList filter to block ads in Firefox.| Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: |
PSI, which aims to use AI “to industrialize the discovery of new physics” including cracking interstellar travel, emerges from stealth with a $58M seed — AI is best known for transforming coding. Now, one startup is making the case for physics.
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| Jon Ronson / New York Times: |
How lawn care YouTuber Greg Chism scaled a family channel to 13B views with YouTube's coaching, before YouTube banned it in 2017 following online backlash — - - 1k — I promised Greg Chism I wouldn't reveal anything about where he lives because there are people out there obsessed with him, convinced he's a monster.| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Roku unveils its first self-branded OLED smart TVs, starting at $999 for 55" and 65" 120Hz models and $1,299 for 144Hz models, sold exclusively via Amazon — Roku Inc. introduced its first self-branded smart TVs with organic light emitting diode, or OLED, display technology … | Anthropic: |
Anthropic details security efforts following Claude cyber evaluation incidents, including a weeks-long pause on higher-risk RL and work to curb reward hacking — On July 30, we reported three incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems.
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