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A German court rules that Suno has violated copyrights and must disclose illicit revenue after Germany's state-mandated licensing agency GEMA sued in 2025 (www.dw.com)
2026-7-31 Germany

Sources: Eric Trump-backed Space-Eyes, which develops AI-powered defense tech for the public sector, agrees to go public via a SPAC merger at a $638M valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-31 Trump AI

Sources: the Trump admin is weighing a $100K fee for foreign students seeking to work in the US after graduation; a judge blocked Trump's $100K H-1B fee in June (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-31 Trump H1B

Counterpoint: Q2 global smartphone revenue rose 7% YoY, and average device selling price rose 17% to $400; Apple took 49% of global revenue, and Samsung 16% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-31 Samsung Apple

The EU Commission charges Temu with failing to cooperate during a December 2025 raid on its Dublin HQ as part of a probe into the company's foreign subsidies (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-31

Letter: Situational Awareness is down ~67% in July, but remains up ~80% in 2026; sources say it planned to sell $3.5B of its Anthropic stake but backed out (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-31

Chinese state media: Xi Jinping called for more defense applications using autonomous and AI technologies, as he pushes to build an advanced fighting force (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-31 China AI

DeepSeek rolls out the official V4 Flash API in public beta, touting enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark scores “far surpassing” V4 Pro Preview (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-31

New York sues Kalshi for alleged violations of its gambling laws; the CFTC files an emergency motion to stop the state's enforcement, calling it an “overreach” (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-31 New York CFTC

Google Earth's Nano Banana 2 feature generates images of refugees near Mexico's border and a nuclear plant in Iran; Google says images carry a SynthID watermark (www.digitaldigging.org)
2026-7-31 Mexico Google Iran Refugee

Australia's online safety regulator says social media use among under-16s fell to 81.5% in March 2026, compared to 85.9% before ban took effect in December 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-31 Australia Ban

Netflix Sued For Losing 'Master Copy' of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-31 Netflix

Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-31 China AI

An interview with Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on making the AI note taker invisible and work across apps, and why he rejects executives seeking employees' notes (www.platformer.news)
2026-7-31 Interview AI

Sony reports Q1 PS5 sales of 1.38M units, down from 1.56M a year ago, taking total sales of the console to 95.3M units, and 125M PlayStation MAUs, up 2M YoY (kotaku.com)
2026-7-31 Sony

Anthropic Says Its AI Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-31 AI

MiniMax releases H3, a video model that generates up to 15-second clips in 2K resolution with native stereo sound, and plans to release its weights within days (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-31

Sony reports Q1 operating profit up 40% YoY to ~$2.92B, raises FY profit forecast by 8% to ~$10.56B, and says it secured enough memory chip supply for the FY (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-31 Sony

Flock Cameras Are Being Destroyed Across the US (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-31

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta spent a combined $1.1T in capex from the start of the AI boom in 2023 through June 2026 and plan to spend $745B this year (www.ft.com)
2026-7-31 Google Amazon Microsoft AI

A leaked memo, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Iran (www.wired.com)
2026-7-31 Iran

Sources: SoftBank gave $50M to Trump's library; Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon gave $25M, $10M, and $5M to his WH ballroom; Meta gave $10M to a pro-Trump group (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-31 Trump Amazon Microsoft Apple

Apple forecasts Q4 revenue growth of 9% to 11% YoY, below a 12%+ estimate, citing supply constraints and currency fluctuations; AAPL drops 5%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-31 Apple 4Q

Sources: Tesla execs were told to prepare for a separation of its China unit ahead of a potential SpaceX merger; advisers weighed a sale, spinoff, or closure (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-31 China Tesla SpaceX

Shares of SK Hynix and Samsung surge more than 20% in Seoul on Friday, marking a sharp reversal from this week's sell-off (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-31 Samsung

Chip stocks rallied Thursday after strong Microsoft and Lam Research earnings: Lam Research closed up 18%, Micron 18%, Sandisk 26%, Arm 7%, AMD 13%, Intel 11% (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-31 Microsoft Intel AMD

Anthropic's Claude breached 3 orgs, uploaded PyPI malware during tests (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-31

Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says Services surpassed 1.5B paid subscriptions, up from 1B in January 2025, but a gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt growth (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-31 Apple

Claude uploaded malware to PyPI in Anthropic's botched test (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-31

Microsoft's stock closed up 15.5% on Thursday, adding ~$450B to its market capitalization, the largest single-day market value increase in stock market history (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-31 Microsoft Single Market

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