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Apple v. OpenAI: Governance Lessons in Trade Secret Protection from Both Sides of the “V”

Apple’s July 10, 2026 lawsuit alleges OpenAI coordinated with former Apple executives and engineers (including Tang Yew Tan and Chang Liu) to misappropriate confidential Apple hardware designs, supply-chain intelligence, and unreleased product specifications, and seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions, compensatory damages, a reasonable royalty (in the alternative), exemplary damages for willful misappropriation, and attorneys’ fees.

Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science

NASA reactivated Swift’s Ultraviolet/Optical and X-ray telescopes last week and plans to resume Burst Alert Telescope data collection during September, aiming to collect a final few months of science before Swift reenters Earth’s atmosphere in coming months (perhaps as soon as October).

Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register

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Google defeats US bid to force ad tech sale

A Virginia judge rejected the DOJ’s request to force Alphabet/Google to sell AdX, and instead accepted most proposed behavioral remedies in the ad-tech antitrust case.

Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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NYC bans AI use for students until they reach high school

NYC will impose a 1-year moratorium banning students from using AI in classrooms until high school, starting with the 2026–2027 school year for about 600,000 public school students in 2-K through eighth grade.

Sep 2, 2026 ·The Verge

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OPEC+ likely to keep oil output policy unchanged on Sunday, sources say

OPEC+ is likely to keep its oil output policy unchanged for October at a Sunday meeting as the group completes a rollback of a 1.65 million-barrel-per-day supply cut agreed in 2023 and shifts toward 2027 quota talks.

Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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Fed's Williams ties rising bond yields to strong economy, CNBC reports

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said rising long-term bond yields are being driven by a strong U.S. economy and outlook, not by inflation fears, and he characterized the causality as the economy affecting financial conditions rather than financial conditions driving the economy.

Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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New York Fed's Williams says yield surge due to strong economic prospects

New York Fed President John Williams said the recent surge in Treasury yields reflects a strong U.S. economy and outlook—driven by “big investments in AI and data centers and technology”—rather than market dysfunction.

Sep 2, 2026 ·CNBC

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10-year treasury touches highest level since 2023 as oil prices stay elevated

The 10-year Treasury yield eased to 4.77% after topping 4.814%, its highest level since November 2023.

Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest'

UK MPs warned Anthropic’s new managing director for international affairs, Matt Clifford, of a “clear conflict of interest” because he plans to keep chairing ARIA while also leading the LLM maker’s government dealings outside North America.

Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register

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Norway considers ban on camera-enabled wearable ‘pervert glasses’

Norway’s digital minister Karianne Tung said the government is considering regulating—and possibly banning—camera-enabled wearable headsets that can monitor people in public places, including potential limits on facial recognition of others.

Sep 2, 2026 ·TechCrunch

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PG&E launches review, defers $2 billion in spending after wildfire bill setback

PG&E will defer about $2 billion of its 2027 spending, leaving a capital plan of about $11.4 billion after a Senate bill amendment failed to meaningfully reduce wildfire liability exposure.

Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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OpenAI faces 30 more lawsuits tied to Tumbler Ridge shooting

Edelson PC is filing 30 additional lawsuits against OpenAI tied to the February 10, 2024 Tumbler Ridge school shooting, expanding claims beyond failure to prevent harm to accusing OpenAI of aiding and abetting the attack.

Sep 2, 2026 ·TechCrunch

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London Tube closes the 5G gap with streets above

About 60 percent of London Underground stations have mobile coverage, and where 5G is available in the Tube it delivers stronger median 5G signal strength (-93 dBm) than the citywide above-ground median (-98 dBm), with 5G on 19.8% of below-ground scans versus 16.5% above ground.

Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register

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Is Russia's rival to Starlink failing? Here's what we know.

Rassvet’s second batch appears to have failed to reach intended operational altitudes, with zero satellites reaching 500 miles and none climbing above 300 miles, while SpaceX’s Starlink failure rate fell from about 13% for early prototypes to about 0.01% for current Version 2 satellites.

Sep 2, 2026 ·Ars Technica

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BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all

Hackers used a BGP hijack of Softaculous’ IP space (162.55.80.0/24, 256 addresses) to redirect update and billing-site traffic and push malware masquerading as updates to Virtualizor users.

Sep 2, 2026 ·Ars Technica

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UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme

The UK launched a £100M Sovereign AI procurement scheme with the first four competitions to develop domestic AI for NHS productivity, defense data connectivity with frontier AI, more efficient public AI computing infrastructure, and security/risk mitigation for AI agents.

Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register

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Gold price today, Wednesday, September 2, 2026: Gold slips further as military actions escalate in Iran

Gold December futures opened at $4,377.20 per troy ounce on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026 (down 0.4%), and slid to $4,357.50 per troy ounce by 6:31 a.m. ET as U.S.-Iran military tensions escalated.

Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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Warsh's Jackson Hole encore may put Trump's inflation record under a microscope

Warsh’s Jackson Hole remarks increased investors’ odds to about a two-to-one chance the Fed will raise the overnight policy rate by 0.25 percentage points at its Sept. 15–16 meeting, after the rate has been held at 3.50%–3.75% since December.

Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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Florida baker's 400 cinnamon rolls worth $3,000 vanished mid-delivery — 5 days later police found every one

Nearly 400 cinnamon rolls worth about $3,100 vanished during a Roll and Dough bakery Uber delivery and were recovered 5 days later after police determined the delivery was linked to an Uber driver detained by Customs and Border Protection.

Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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Northern Ireland adds £15M to Fujitsu education deal without competition

Northern Ireland’s Education Authority plans to extend Fujitsu’s EA One contract by five one-year options, adding £15M to take the ceiling to £55.4M and keeping the supplier in place until March 31, 2032.

Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register

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