AI giants are battling not just in code, but in politics, with behind-the-scenes lobbying, strategic naming, and rumors of blockbuster deals at the heart of this week's wildest tech stories. Get the inside scoop on who's pulling the strings.<ul> 
<li>Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge</li> 
<li>Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO</li> 
<li>Exclusive | Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch, Tim Cook Says</li> 
<li>Elon Musk's Next Move May Be a Mega-Merger of SpaceX and Tesla</li> 
<li>Anthropic's latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests</li> 
<li>Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI</li> 
<li>Google's Secret Warrant Fight Over DOJ Pipe Bomb Probe Revealed</li> 
<li>The UK Places a Sweeping Ban on Social Media for Kids Under 16</li> 
<li>Meta lobbies Congress for protection from child-harm lawsuits</li> 
<li>Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them driving into highway construction zones</li> 
<li>Snap Launches $2,195 Specs, Declaring Glasses the Next Computer</li> 
<li>Fox wants to take over your TV — and the tech inside it</li> 
<li>Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans</li> 
<li>Nothing cancels this year's CMF phone due to RAM prices</li> 
<li>The AI IPO boom is different</li> 
<li>Joshua Baer, Capital Factory Founder, Dies in Laredo Plane Crash - RuntimeWire</li> 
<li>Ubisoft's co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash</li></ul> 
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