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The creator monetization program of X is being replaced with the new "Original Content Rewards Program." Existing creators must re-apply starting September 8th.

Breaking News: Telegram has been reinstated on the Apple App Store following a brief suspension.

JUST IN: Apple surpasses Nvidia to become the world's most valuable company. $AAPL: $4.92 trillion $NVDA: $4.75 trillion

BREAKING NEWS: Alphabet Inc. $GOOGL has disclosed a holding of SpaceX $SPCX stock valued at $94 billion.

SpaceX briefly overtook Microsoft in market capitalization in June–July 2026, reaching as high as $2.94 trillion, compared to Microsoft’s $2.93 trillion. This surge followed SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO and its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding platform Cursor.

OpenAI reportedly hired former Apple employees as spies, asking for confidential project details. One former iPhone engineer failed to surrender his work laptop, using it to access and download Apple’s proprietary databases while at OpenAI. He messaged colleagues: "LOL, I still have access, this is going to be fun," and created instructions on discreetly copying files to evade security. Tang Tan, OpenAI's hardware director, allegedly encouraged this by recruiting Apple staff and requesting prototypes and blueprints. Before joining OpenAI, Tan spent nearly 25 years as a lead iPhone developer.

Microsoft is laying off 3,200 Xbox gaming employees over the next year, representing 20% of the workforce, with half departing today. Due to poor financial decisions, Xbox studios will face these changes: Compulsion Games and Double Fine become independent. Undead Labs and Ninja Theory will transfer to new publishers, committing to release State of Decay 3 and Senua. Arkane Lyon's future remains uncertain; Microsoft is seeking French government aid to save the Dishonored creators from closure. Leadership admits losing $0.64 per dollar invested and must deflate the bubble. Minecraft and Project Helix remain safe with minimal cuts.

🇺🇸 US government officially lifts worldwide export restrictions on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 AI model.

OpenAI reportedly lost $38.5 billion in 2025, nearly three times their revenue. The Financial Times confirmed the data. Over the year, the ChatGPT creators' net loss increased almost eight times. They are preparing for an IPO. The company is a nonprofit.

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Anthropic has revoked access to Fable 5 for all users after U.S. authorities found it to pose a "national security threat." This decision came just three days after the release. In Washington, a method for jailbreaking the model was discovered, prompting immediate demands for its shutdown. All active Fable sessions were automatically terminated overnight due to an error. Access may be restored after a security patch, and as compensation, Anthropic has reset all daily and weekly limits for users.

A Nobel Prize laureate in physics has co-authored a new scientific article with Claude. The neural network has provided literal confirmation of the hypothesis for the researchers. Claude explored differential equations and wrote C++ code to determine the solution. Ultimately, it produced a report containing a logical explanation of why the result is correct. The authors of the article required only 40 prompts for one of the key stages of their research.

An individual has circumvented Whoop fitness trackers, allowing them to be utilized without the $200 annual subscription. Through a custom application called Goose, users can connect the device and access sleep and workout tracking, as well as all the sensors.

US Space Force awards Elon Musk's SpaceX $2.29 billion contract to develop space-based military data network.