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The Apex Building, the Federal Trade Commission headquarters, seen from above at dusk on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C.
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The FTC says Amazon hid a surcharge in its ad auctions, and winners paid their own bid 80% of the time

The FTC and 22 states allege Amazon quietly turned its second-price ad auction into a first-price one, charging Sponsored Products winners their full bid.

Aerial photograph of the Pentagon's five concentric rings and central courtyard, ringed by parking lots and highway interchanges on a bare winter day.
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The Pentagon added ChatGPT and Grok to its own AI portal for 3 million staff

GenAI.mil now serves OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI's Grok for Government at IL5, nine months after Google's Gemini opened the portal.

The low glass-and-steel Nvidia headquarters building in Santa Clara, with the green Nvidia eye logo and the street number 2788 on a concrete monument sign beside the entrance steps
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74 B300 servers reached China. Taiwan indicted nine, including Nvidia and Supermicro staff.

Taiwan's Keelung prosecutors charged nine people, including an Nvidia Taiwan manager and two Supermicro sales managers, over 74 B300 servers that reached China.

Officials in suits and safety vests push ceremonial shovels into a mound of dirt at the Piketon, Ohio groundbreaking, with a large US flag, an SB Energy banner and a Caterpillar excavator behind them.
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Local opposition stalled $130 billion of data centers, and New York froze permits statewide

Gallup puts local opposition at 71%. Hochul's order pauses 50 MW-plus permits for a year, and PJM's last auction billed data centers $6.3 billion.

The Minneapolis federal courthouse, home of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, photographed from below against a pale sky.
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The first US ban on nudify apps took effect after a judge denied xAI's freeze

Judge Donovan Frank refused xAI's restraining order against Minnesota's nudification-app ban, citing a three-month filing delay. The law carries $500,000 per image.

Illustration of a figure with an EU-flag head and a figure wearing a headband bearing the Google logo and the German, Polish and French flags, tearing a chocolate-chip cookie apart between them.
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Around 3% of people want tracking. EU governments dropped the plan to end cookie banners.

A civil-society coalition wants EU browsers to send a machine-readable privacy signal instead of showing consent pop-ups. The Council deleted the provision on June 18.

Delta aircraft parked at jet bridges on the apron at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport under a pink sunset sky
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The DOJ charged a US citizen over a GrapheneOS duress password that wiped his phone at the border

Samuel Tunick's Pixel erased itself during a CBP inspection at Atlanta's airport. Prosecutors call that destroying property to prevent its seizure.

An illuminated multicolored Google G logo mounted on the wall of a Google building at dusk.
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$1 billion. The EU fined Google for favoring its own results and blocking cheaper app deals.

Brussels fined Google 890 million euros, its first Digital Markets Act penalty, for self-preferencing in Search and blocking app developers from steering users to cheaper deals.

The columned stone facade of the Hamilton County Courthouse, with an inscription about the administration of the law carved across the frieze.
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$1.5 billion, about $3,000 a book. A judge finalized Anthropic's piracy settlement.

A federal judge gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement for pirating books to train Claude, the largest copyright recovery on record.

A rack of servers in a data center, the kind of hardware Oracle's AI cloud buildout runs on
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Oracle cut 21,000 jobs in a year. Its own SEC filing names AI as a reason.

Oracle's headcount fell to about 141,000 as of May 31, down roughly 21,000 in a year. Its FY2026 10-K ties the cuts to AI while capex hit $55.7 billion.

Anthropic's Claude branding on a soft gradient panel, used to illustrate the redeployment of Fable 5 after export controls were lifted.
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The US lifted its export ban on Anthropic's Fable 5. The model returns Wednesday.

The Commerce Department cleared Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, ending an 18-day export-control freeze. Anthropic redeploys Fable 5 globally on Wednesday with tighter safeguards.

The north facade of the White House in Washington under a clear sky.
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The White House told OpenAI to gate GPT-5.6. Frontier models now need government sign-off.

The Trump administration asked OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6 to trusted partners, with the government vetting access customer by customer. Here's what that gatekeeping means.

A multicrystalline silicon wafer showing thin-film iridescence, the raw material at the start of the chip supply chain.
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'Pax Silica': the EU just joined the US chip pact France called colonisation

The EU signed the US-led 'Pax Silica' pact to secure AI and chip supply chains. Here's what it commits members to, who's in, and how it ties to export controls.

An open passport photo page, the kind of government ID that age-verification systems ask users to upload.
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The web wants your ID now. Most age checks leak the data they collect.

Mandatory age-verification laws are turning the open internet into a checkpoint. Here's what the UK, EU, and US states actually require, and why the methods leak.

Close-up of Google's Sycamore quantum processor chip mounted on its gold-plated wiring harness.
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The White House just cut five years off America's quantum crypto deadline

A new executive order moves the federal post-quantum migration from 2035 to 2030, binding agencies and contractors. Here's what changed and what to do now.

Windows 10 logo on a laptop screen, the operating system now getting a second year of post-retirement security updates
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Roughly a billion PCs still run Windows 10. Microsoft just bought them another year.

Microsoft quietly extended Windows 10 consumer security updates to October 2027. Here's who qualifies, what the free and $30 options cover, and why the deadline keeps moving.

Meta corporate signage outside a company office building
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Meta reassigned thousands of engineers to label AI data, and the unit is in revolt

Gergely Orosz reports Meta moved a big share of its engineers into an AI data-labeling org. TechCrunch and Wired describe a revolt. Here is what is confirmed.

An automated license-plate reader camera mounted on a roadside pole
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An Illinois police chief tracked a woman's ex 140 times on Flock, with no warrant required

A McHenry County police chief faces felony charges for using Flock's plate-reader network to track people he knew. The case is fueling a push for warrants.