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NYC-based AI startup Runlayer sues Rippling for allegedly stealing trade secrets to "build essentially a clone" of Runlayer's safety and governance product (Taylor Herzlich/New York Post)

X rolls out X Money to US Premium and Premium+ subscribers, combining a deposit account with up to 6% APY, free instant transfers on X, and a Visa debit card (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Xbox says it is working to resolve a "major outage" affecting its Account & Profile, Store & Subscriptions, and Apps & Mobile services (Chris Scullion/Video Games Chronicle)

NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, July 27 (game #1142)

How AI companies are targeting the education market, including making free or cut-price tailored learning tools in partnership with schools and edtech startups (Jamie John/Financial Times)

India eases foreign investment rules for e-commerce companies, a win for Amazon, which lobbied to buy goods directly from Indian sellers and sell them overseas (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)

Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella faces pressure as a compute crunch forces Microsoft to prioritize its own AI products over Azure cloud customers (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)

A look at China's bid to build an alternative global order in AI by making open models widely available and training people in developing countries to use them (Financial Times)

NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, July 26 (game #1141)

China's market regulator says it had fined and confiscated ~$770M from Trip.com for abusing its dominant position in the domestic online hotel-booking market (Reuters)

Several universities including Yale, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Waterloo have restricted or disabled their use of AI detectors over accuracy concerns (Ima Jackson-Obot/Financial Times)

Anthropic says Opus 5 model "is the least susceptible to being tricked into misuse"; it is Anthropic's fourth model release in less than two months (Madison Mills/Axios)