Financial time::
The President of the CE Von der Leyen: the EU can tax advertising revenues from large technologies, targeting Meta and Google, if Trump’s sales talks fail and will not return its “untouchable” rules– The president of the European Commission says to FT that she wants a “balanced” agreement but could strike the American services in retaliation
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- Apple announces a new Foundation Models framework for developers, a new Core AI framework, and a set of Xcode improvements aimed at agent coding workflows (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
- China’s maritime outposts could distract Taiwan’s allies in the event of an invasion from Beijing – Radio Free Asia
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- Mike Johnson ceded his power as Speaker of the House to Trump

