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FTC says Amazon hid a surcharge so ad winners paid their own bid. Nvidia invested $3.5 billion in MediaTek convertibles.

The FTC and 22 states sued Amazon Monday over a hidden “soft reserve” in search-ad auctions. The complaint says Sponsored Products winners paid their own bid about 80 percent of the time by 2024. Tens of billions is allegation language. Nvidia put $3.5 billion into MediaTek convertibles so custom chips still sit in Nvidia’s rack. Brussels classified ChatGPT as a search engine. Together AI is taking 250 megawatts to Saudi Arabia. The Pentagon added ChatGPT and Grok to GenAI.mil. Claude is still outside.

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Infostealers stole Claude sessions. SB Energy handed OpenAI $5.5 billion in warrants.

Anthropic is signing some Claude users out and wiping saved cards after consumer malware on their PCs copied live login cookies. SoftBank’s power and data-centre arm granted OpenAI warrants now worth about $5.5 billion to keep the tenant, then aims a $5–7 billion IPO. OpenAI is quietly testing pay-when-it-works with some large accounts. Online Risk Labs estimates Temu put as much as $962 million into Meta partnership ads that boosted mostly fake creators. Apple dropped Mac mini and Studio early after the labs treated the boxes as training iron.

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