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Last updated August 17, 2026
Apple’s practice of pairing work iCloud storage with personal Apple IDs leaves departing employees still holding internal files
Attorneys general from 15 states order OpenAI to preserve every record tied to the Hugging Face breach by its GPT-5.6 Sol agent
Fishbowl Inventory acquires Repfabric to add CRM and commission tracking to its inventory software for small manufacturers
Google and Meta move to dismiss voice actors’ AI training suits, saying the complaints never allege their voices were used
TikTok doubles AI-generated ad clips to 30 seconds with the Dreamina Seedance 2.5 model in its Symphony creative suite
TikTok pauses a dating test that dropped users into live group chat rooms with singles in the US and a few other markets
Shopify’s Horizon theme climbs from 7.4% to 8.6% of storefronts in a single quarter, four times the share gain of any other theme
New Jersey’s attorney general sues Amazon over the pay and working conditions it sets for Delivery Service Partner drivers
The White House calls OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic staff in Tuesday to review a finished framework for voluntary model reviews
OpenAI pays $3.2M to settle Justice Department claims that it steered high-paying tech jobs toward temporary visa holders
Strategy sells $104.7 million of Bitcoin below its own cost basis to cover preferred dividends and an $81 million STRC buyback
Teads sues Google over Last Look and Project Bernanke auction practices it says still run after Google said it retired them
No security backdoor has been publicly documented in a major Chinese AI model even as US officials cite backdoors as a risk
SpaceX buying Tesla would settle the intercompany conflicts Musk creates by moving staff, chips, and Grok models between the two
Public Knowledge asks the appeals court to force a Chrome divestiture and ban Google’s search payments to Apple and Mozilla
Pie takes an undisclosed investment from Amex Ventures to sell local merchants on AI search visibility and customer acquisition
TikTok kept 10% of US users out of its 2021 filter bubble safeguard as a control group to measure the cost to engagement
OpenAI publishes messages and emails it says undercut Apple’s trade secrets suit and its request for a preliminary injunction
RepSpark raises a $22 million strategic investment from Headlight Partners to expand its B2B wholesale platform beyond golf
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