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The FTC and 20+ state AGs plan to sue Amazon for allegedly making tens of billions over seven years by manipulating ad prices on its retail platform (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal)
Sony launches Live TV on PS5 in the US, letting users stream 100+ free, ad-supported TV channels with content from Amazon MGM Studios, Crunchyroll, and more (Kris Holt/Engadget)
Trump says communities that reject data centers will end up "backwards and poor" and that "China could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement" (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
Reframe, which uses AI and industrial robot arms to make modular homes in a factory, raised a $40M Series A extension round led by Energy Impact Partners (Rocket Drew/The Information)
Sources: Hyperliquid is in talks to enter the US market through Kraken parent Payward, weeks after Trump said he was working to bring the platform onshore (Bloomberg)
Gurman: Apple is moving App Store to services unit run by Eddy Cue, who previously oversaw it until 2015; Cue is taking on a more influential role under Ternus (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
The Trump administration launches Project Watershed 250, a six-month cybersecurity pilot to protect Texas water systems from cyberattacks (Fox News)
Sources: Phil Schiller stepped down from his role leading the App Store and product events; he will remain at Apple to work on unspecified initiatives (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
a16z says its fifth growth fund has closed additional capital, bringing its total to $8.5B (Andreessen Horowitz)
The UK unveils a £100M Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme for domestic AI startups focused on public services, amid growing opposition to Palantir contracts (Jim Pickard/Financial Times)
MapQuest becomes the top free iPhone app on the App Store in Canada and fourth on the US App Store after refusing to change Lake Ontario to Lake America (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
Sources: South Korea's dismissal of a US congressional report saying it discriminated against US-based Coupang is causing strains between the two countries (Justin Papp/CNBC)
Together AI, which serves open models, announces a deal to use compute from Humain in Saudi Arabia, where it can bypass US backlash over data centers (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
Former NY GOP Rep. George Santos receives Kalshi's first lifetime ban after the CFTC alleged he made $17K by betting on his appearance at the State of the Union (Brian Schwartz/Wall Street Journal)
Interior Secretary says President Trump "reached out to Apple directly" about changing Lake Ontario to Lake America and the company may soon alter its maps (Reuters)

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