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US DOJ says federal employees can download TikTok on government devices again, due to a deal that transferred TikTok’s US operations to a JV backed by Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX, with ByteDance retaining a 19.9% stake and Trump signaling clearance to executive agencies under policy.
Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China via Alibaba's Qwen integration, with Baidu involvement, while Apple posts strong Greater China Q2 sales.
TechCrunch roundup combines AI hardware privacy debates (Lorde on AI glasses), regulatory/legal developments (AI training lawsuits and token-spend caps), and major funding milestones (PixVerse, OpenAI researcher Miles Wang’s drug-discovery venture) with several hard numeric data points.
Snowflake signs a $6 billion, five-year deal with AWS to access Graviton-based AI CPUs, underscoring a huge push for AI compute in the cloud and signaling regulatory and competitive dynamics in AI hardware.
China is tightening controls on AI talent mobility and foreign investment, signaling a policy-driven effort to retain AI leadership and curtail brain drain, with travel bans, capital-flow approvals, and export/tech restrictions—a regime that raises regulatory risk for foreign entrants and could impact AI investment dynamics.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 early-bird savings end in 3 days (up to $410 off) with 10,000+ attendees, 250+ speakers, 200+ sessions, and a $100k Startup Battlefield prize; separate stories cover ClickHouse’s $250M annualized revenue and IPO path, plus China’s tightening AI-talent travel restrictions and YouTube’s automatic AI labeling policy.
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