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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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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Phil Schiller has stepped down from his role leading Apple's App Store and product events; he will remain at Apple to work on unspecified initiatives — Apple Inc.'s Phil Schiller, one of the most visible and influential executives across both the Steve Jobs and Tim Cook eras …
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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.| Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
Under Tim Cook, Apple's market cap grew from under $350B in 2011 to $4.6T, revenue jumped from $157B in FY 2012 to ~$477B in FY 2026, and shares rose 2,275% — 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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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
A look back at Tim Cook's 15-year tenure: Apple silicon, wearables, a $1T market cap, privacy, Apple Vision Pro, Apple Car, AI, App Store battles, and Trump — Expectations for Tim Cook were almost impossibly high when he stepped in to replace Apple's visionary co-founder in 2011.| 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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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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| 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.| 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 …
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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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| 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 Texas data center built by Hut 8 — 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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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
The Pentagon launches ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on its GenAI.mil platform, giving its 3M personnel access to AI tools “tailored to warfighter needs” — The Pentagon has launched versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and xAI's Grok, giving 3 million civilian and military personnel access …
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| Amanda L. Gordon / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Polymarket is set to raise $1B led by 1789 Capital at a $21B post-money valuation; Donald Trump Jr. is a partner at 1789 and adviser to Polymarket — Venture capital firm 1789 Capital is leading a new funding round for Polymarket that will give the prediction-markets platform a $21 billion post-money valuation.| Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico: |
Trump says communities that reject data centers will end up “backwards and poor” and that “China could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement” — President Donald Trump on Monday again championed the spread of data centers despite growing bipartisan backlash ahead of the midterms in November.
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| New York Times: |
As Gov. Josh Shapiro, once a data center champion, calls them “predatory” and imposes guardrails, some in struggling western Pennsylvania welcome the projects — Amid a backlash, Gov. Josh Shapiro is pumping the brakes on enormous data centers.| Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: |
AI startup Mirage streamed a 24-hour “live” AI news show on X on August 11, which cost ~$50K in tokens, featuring realistic avatars that struggled to converse — Inside the good, the bad, and the ugly of a 24-hour live AI broadcast experiment by video startup Mirage.| 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.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google raises the price of its Google TV Streamer by $50 to $150 in the US, as well as for “select” Nest cameras and doorbells, citing “rising component costs” — Google has quietly raised the price of the Google TV Streamer to $149.99.
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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Study: ~33% of UK adults say they used illegal streaming services in the past three months, costing the sports, TV, and film industries ~£1.4B in annual revenue — Coalition seeks government support to crack down on pirated content and restore lost revenue| 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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