AI giants are battling not just in code, but in politics, with behind-the-scenes lobbying, strategic naming, and rumors of blockbuster deals at the heart of this week's wildest tech stories. Get the inside scoop on who's pulling the strings.

Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO
Exclusive | Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch, Tim Cook Says
Elon Musk's Next Move May Be a Mega-Merger of SpaceX and Tesla
Anthropic's latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI
Google's Secret Warrant Fight Over DOJ Pipe Bomb Probe Revealed
The UK Places a Sweeping Ban on Social Media for Kids Under 16
Meta lobbies Congress for protection from child-harm lawsuits
Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them driving into highway construction zones
Snap Launches $2,195 Specs, Declaring Glasses the Next Computer
Fox wants to take over your TV — and the tech inside it
Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
Nothing cancels this year's CMF phone due to RAM prices
The AI IPO boom is different
Joshua Baer, Capital Factory Founder, Dies in Laredo Plane Crash - RuntimeWire
Ubisoft's co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash

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