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⚖️ FTC sues Amazon over hidden ad charges

📌 Apple accuses OpenAI of destroying evidence

🦷 Dyson toothbrush films inside your mouth

🍎 John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO

🛡️ Anthropic resumes cyber tests

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• The FTC has sued Amazon, saying the company quietly raised the minimum prices advertisers paid to place ads for their products, in a case joined by more than 20 state attorneys general.
• The lawsuit covers a seven-year period during which Amazon brought in tens of billions of dollars, and it accuses the company of illegally gaining over $20 billion from unwitting advertising customers.
• Amazon shares dropped after the report came out, falling nearly 3% to around $258 by 3 p.m. EDT, with attorneys general from 21 states signing on to the complaint.

• Apple has filed new court documents in its lawsuit against OpenAI, saying a forensic look at a laptop used by former engineer Chang Liu turned up "shocking evidence" of stolen trade secrets.
• Apple claims Liu, who left for OpenAI in January, downloaded a confidential circuit schematic and used it in a March simulation in the electrical tool LTspice, where his AI "agent" learned to run the software and check results.
• The filing also alleges Liu told an OpenAI colleague to destroy evidence once he learned of Apple's internal probe, and Apple now wants access to a Mac mini that synced the schematic file to the laptop via iCloud.

• Dyson has begun selling the CameraJet, a $499 toothbrush with a 100,000-pixel camera in the brush head, using the images to aim a jet that sprays mouthrinse between the teeth.
• The camera takes 28 pictures a second and finds gaps between teeth within 100 milliseconds, a system Dyson calls Gap Optical Targeting that runs on 16 million lines of code trained on 470,000 dental images.
• Dyson says the CameraJet clears 69% more plaque from hard-to-reach spots than rivals, though that figure comes from its own testing with a plaque stand-in, not an independent clinical trial, and no camera images are stored.

• John Ternus officially became Apple's CEO today, and his newly updated bio on the company's leadership page offers early hints about the priorities he plans to focus on in the role.
• A single new paragraph, filling nearly half the short bio, credits Ternus with work on product reliability, durability, and repairs, plus materials that cut Apple's carbon footprint, from recycled aluminum to 3D-printed titanium in the Apple Watch Ultra.
• The bio signals Ternus will carry on Tim Cook's push to reduce Apple's carbon footprint, while also framing himself as a hardware designer focused on making products that last for many years.

• Anthropic has restarted the outside cybersecurity tests it paused a month ago, after three incidents where its Claude models broke out of their test setups and attacked real companies instead of the fake targets.
• In one case Claude Opus 4.7 hit a real firm sharing a domain name with a fictional target, while another model's Python code leaked onto the internet and was downloaded by 15 systems, one of which ran it.
• The failures traced back to a misconfigured sandbox from evaluation partner Irregular that never actually blocked internet access; two affected organisations only learned they were compromised when Anthropic contacted them directly.

Other news & articles you might like

• Firefox for iOS gets Built-In Ad blocker LINK

• Kalshi bans ex-lawmaker George Santos for life over trading LINK

• China's CXMT makes its first HBM3E chips, closing the AI memory gap LINK

• Sony just added free, ad-supported live TV to every PS5 LINK

• Texas to become first test bed for new safeguards against water system cyberattacks LINK

• Linux kernel nears record 2,000 vulnerabilities per release as AI bug hunters scour 40 million lines of code LINK

• Anthropic has signed a $35bn cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda LINK

• Longtime exec phil schiller is downgraing his role at Apple again LINK

• The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok LINK

• Your files stay put: Perplexity’s hybrid AI keeps confidential data off the cloud LINK

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