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Epic reaches a settlement with Samsung, which it sued over allegedly conspiring with Google to undermine third party app stores (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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Jack Dorsey shares TestFlight and GitHub links to his "weekend project", Bitchat, a decentralized P2P messaging iOS app that relies on Bluetooth mesh networks (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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Trump announces 25% tariffs on Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia, 32% for Indonesia, 36% for Cambodia and Thailand, 40% for Laos and Myanmar, starting August 1 (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)

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Document: OpenAI told investors stock compensation jumped over 5x in 2024 to $4.4B, or 119% of its total revenue, but expects it to drop to under 10% by 2030 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

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Private equity firm TPG completes its $7.6B acquisition of the remaining 70% stake in DirecTV from AT&T, marking AT&T's exit from media (Dan Primack/Axios)

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CoreWeave says it has agreed to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific in a ~$9B all-stock deal, set to close in Q4 2025, to expand its AI data center capacity (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)

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Stat Counter: Windows 11 had a 50.9% share of the Windows market on July 4, ahead of Windows 10's 46.2%; the OS, released in 2021, only had a <10% share in 2022 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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Huawei's AI lab refutes accusations that its Pangu Pro MoE model source code used uncredited material from key rivals, after a GitHub group debated its origins (Bloomberg)

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Experts say ransomware group DragonForce, which targeted M&S, Harrods, and the Co-op, started a turf war with rival RansomHub that may bring more company hacks (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

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An analysis of Crunchbase and PitchBook data: in 2025 so far, 36+ tech startups hit a $1B+ valuation, including seven in June, six in May, and four in April (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

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Apple appeals the EU's €500M DMA fine, levied in April 2025 over its App Store steering rules, claiming the decision goes "far beyond what the law requires" (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

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Paris-based Capgemini plans to acquire US-listed IT outsourcing company WNS for $3.3B in cash, seeking to boost its agentic AI services; WNS serves 600+ clients (Bloomberg)

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On-the-job learning in fields like law and banking faces a double threat: hybrid work limiting juniors' time with seniors and Gen AI cutting many routine tasks (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times)

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Meituan says daily orders on its instant delivery service surpassed 120M on July 5, setting an all-time high, with food orders accounting for 100M, or 83% (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)

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Gates Industrial, Generac, and other US industrial firms are seeking to share of the AI boom by increasing efforts to supply specialized data center equipment (Financial Times)

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Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, has become a Chinese AI startup hub, and the suburb Liangzhu has emerged as a hot spot for coders in their 20s and 30s (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)

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How the US government debuted a revamped online system in September 2024 that simplifies passport renewal; the system is already handling nearly 50% of renewals (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

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After Elon Musk unveiled the America Party, a new US political party, President Trump called Musk a "TRAIN WRECK" fueled by discontent over EV subsidies ending (The Guardian)

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Tokyo-based Sakana AI details a new Monte Carlo Tree Search-based technique that lets multiple LLMs cooperate on a single task, outperforming individual LLMs (Ben Dickson/VentureBeat)

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A look at the US Secret Service's GIOC, which sources say has seized nearly $400M in digital assets over the past decade via crypto scam investigations globally (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)

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