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Apple launches legal challenge against UK encrypted data access demand

TazaPulseAugust 4, 2026

Apple has launched a fresh legal challenge against a U.K. government attempt to access encrypted data held by British customers. The move comes a year on from the previous dispute between the two over a request from the U.K.’s Home Office for both British and American customer data. That order was dropped by the U.K....

Palantir stock rises 16% on soaring commercial revenue, AI sovereignty

TazaPulseAugust 4, 2026

Palantir CEO Alex Karp speaks during an interview on July 27, 2026 in New York City. John Lamparski | Getty Images Palantir soared in premarket trading on Tuesday after the company reported “otherworldly” second-quarter earnings driven by customer demand for AI sovereign tools. The enterprise software giant reported a 93% growth in overall revenue to...

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Trump AI executive order nears key deadline regulation debate heats up

TazaPulseAugust 4, 2026

CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman (L) and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a working lunch with G7 leaders, G7 outreach partners, and global tech CEOs on innovation and AI, during the G7 Summit on June 17, 2026 in Evian-les-Bains, France. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images When President Donald Trump signed his AI executive order in...

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OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack confirmed months of AI cyber warnings

TazaPulseAugust 4, 2026

For months, cybersecurity leaders warned that artificial intelligence would reshape the threat landscape, compressing weeks- and dayslong cyberattacks into a matter of minutes. Until last week, those threats still felt like a distant risk. The OpenAI agent hack on Hugging Face illustrates that this era has not only arrived but also created a new challenge:...

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What drove last week’s volatile market

TazaPulseAugust 4, 2026

Wall Street got back to its winning ways last week after navigating a hawkish Federal Reserve meeting, volatile swings in chip stocks, and a critical round of Big Tech earnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1% for the week, snapping a three-week losing streak. The S & P 500 gained 1% last week, while...

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The U.S. lead over China in AI is all but gone

TazaPulseAugust 4, 2026

Travelers walk past an Alibaba Cloud advertisement at Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport in Shenzhen, China, on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images For much of the past several years, the debate over artificial intelligence has revolved around two foundational questions: Can American technology companies continue to innovate at the technological frontier?...

Anthropic, OpenAI among firms facing new EU AI Act enforcement powers

TazaPulseAugust 4, 2026

The European Union gained new powers to inspect AI models, restrict EU market access and fine model providers, raising the stakes for U.S. companies like Anthropic and OpenAI and Google. Under the powers that came into effect on Sunday, the Commission, the EU’s executive arm, can demand to evaluate models before public release in the...

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Here’s my power rankings for the big 4 hyperscalers after this earnings season

TazaPulseAugust 4, 2026

For months, I have been after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to give us “line of sight” into something that can explain why they’re is spending so much money building out all of these data centers. I wanted to know if this is just some sort of rainbow without a pot of gold, or whether there...

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5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday

TazaPulseAugust 4, 2026

This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Monday. I spent the weekend mostly outdoors at the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago, but many others headed inside to catch the latest summer blockbuster. Stock futures are climbing this morning. The three major indexes are coming off a winning week....

Jim Cramer says the market has warmed up to Big Tech’s AI spending. Here’s what flipped the switch

TazaPulseAugust 4, 2026

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Monday that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s earnings call changed how Wall Street views massive artificial intelligence investments. “Until Jassy spoke, the market seemed highly skeptical of how these megacap tech companies were spending money,” the “Mad Money” host said. “That’s no longer the case.” For months, investors had questioned whether...