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OpenAI fires back at Apple, publishing private emails to counter trade-secret claims
OpenAI has come out swinging in its legal battle with Apple—and brought receipts. The AI lab published a response —along with a tranche of private emails and messages—pushing back on some of the claims in Apple's lawsuit filed…
'Madden' and 'Apex Legends' Publisher Is Now Officially Owned by Saudi Arabia
Electronic Arts is no longer a publicly traded company. The Madden maker was just purchased in a joint private equity deal by the Saudi Arabian government's Public Investment Fund (PIF), Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, and Silver Lake. The…
Sam Altman's OpenAI publishes brutal critique of Apple lawsuit: 'Apple is getting this wrong'
OpenAI: ‘ Apple is getting this wrong.' Ukraine is running its war like a business— and the KPIs are brutal. Markets: Let's gooo! Palantir's epic earnings call. $1 trillion in AI capex is on the way. Are Iran and Oman carving Trump…
What Top Stories Inside AI Overviews Means For Publishers And Brands In 2026 And Beyond
John Shehata, CEO of NewzDash, found something in July that a lot of publishers threatening to block Google's AI don't realize is already happening underneath them. Google has started folding entire Top Stories carousels directly inside AI…
Beyond Frames Selling Off Publishing Rights To Combat Waffle's Games For $1M
Combat Waffle Studios' Ghosts of Tabor, Grim, and Silent North will soon have a new publisher as original publisher Beyond Frames is selling the publishing rights to a new company for $1 million. We cannot confirm who the new company is yet, but…
Boldwood Books acquired by audiobook publisher RBmedia
Amanda Ridout, founder and chief executive of Boldwood Books US audiobook giant RBmedia has bought Boldwood Books, the commercial fiction independent founded by a team led by CEO Amanda Ridout seven years ago. Create a free account to unlock 3…
The prisoner's dilemma: Why UK publishers are signing Google AI deals
AI deals being offered to UK publishers by Google were described to Press Gazette by one well-placed industry source as a case of the “prisoner's dilemma”. At industry events publishers fume about the broken bargain with Google, which…
Moth Books to publish English translation of Olga Campofreda's Strega-nominated novel
Jennifer Panek © Matthew Kellett Translated fiction specialist, Moth Books, has acquired Olga Campofreda's Strega-nominated Dutiful Daughters (Ragazze Perbene). Create a free account to unlock 3 articles a month and receive tailored…
As diesel futures markets plummet, benchmark retail price rises
Diesel consumers can be excused if they are exhausted from trying to project where the prices they pay at the pump will be going after the events of the past few days and weeks. The weekly Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration…
Strait of Hormuz disruption hits energy, fertilizer and industrial trade
Exports of natural gas dropped by a staggering 95 per cent. The finding comes in analysis published by the International Trade Centre (ITC), a multilateral agency that has a joint mandate with the World Trade Organization (WTO) and UN trade and…
Publisher's Platform: Two Countries Are Now Warning Their Citizens About Travel to the United States. Britain Traced Forty-Eight of Its Cases to Mexico. The Cyclospora Count Is Still 22,683.
The UK Health Security Agency published new figures on July 30. Sixty-seven people in England, Scotland and Wales were reported with cyclosporiasis between April 30 and July 15 of this year — thirty in England, twenty-seven in Scotland, ten…
Is tech the core arena for EU and US disputes? One Chinese prediction says so
Clashes between the United States and European Union are becoming the “new normal” with competition over tech regulations at the “core”, according to an analysis published by a leading Chinese think tank. Guo Mingxu…
Nvidia's open-source alliance seeks industry input on AI safety controls
A working group within Nvidia's new initiative on open-source technologies is seeking public input as it develops guidelines on how to share and learn from AI cybersecurity incidents to prevent future risks. The request for comment comes about a…
The industry makes great games, but nobody can find them
At the Madeira Games Summit in May, Michal Bujko, senior business development manager at Modma Studios, asked a question: If we were looking back at 2026 five years from now, what should we have fixed when we still had the chance? There was a…
Radar Trends to Watch: August 2026
Unrestricted global access to frontier AI technology is ending. The US government has taken steps to control who can use the most advanced models developed by American companies. While Claude Fable and the GPT-5.6 models are now open to all users…
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