Study: ~33% of UK adults say they used illegal streaming services in the past three months, costing the sports, TV, and film industries ~£1.4B in annual revenue (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
Filing: OpenAI denies Apple's allegations of trade secret theft, saying "this dispute is a mess of Apple's own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else" (Deepa Seetharaman/Reuters)
As Gov. Josh Shapiro, once a data center champion, calls them "predatory" and imposes guardrails, some in struggling western Pennsylvania welcome the projects (New York Times)
Sources: Google approached Disney, Universal, and other studios to license characters and films for its AI tools, but legal and union concerns stalled deals (Wendy Lee/Los Angeles Times)
Bank of England Governor warns that advanced AI could destabilize the highly interconnected global financial system via cyber disruption across jurisdictions (Simon Goodley/The Guardian)
A look at Pangram, the AI detector at the center of disputed accusations against writers, including a pulled novel and a Commonwealth Prize-winning short story (Elaine Moore/Financial Times)
Big Tech reported Q2 "other income" rose significantly to $160B+, driven by investments in AI companies, raising concerns of paper gains overstating the AI boom (Financial Times)