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Apple's partnership with OpenAI erupts into a courtroom battle, Maine Democrats scramble after a surprise Senate withdrawal, and police investigate the death of one of Britain's best-known political figures as a possible murder.

Plus, why Washington is easing AI chip restrictions for the UAE and what it could mean for the global race to dominate artificial intelligence.

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Apple sued OpenAI in California federal court, accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing secrets to build its own AI hardware. Filings claim the misconduct ran "at every level," naming former Apple designers now working on OpenAI's device.

Court documents tie the alleged scheme to OpenAI's purchase of Jony Ive's io Products. Rupture ends a partnership that once put ChatGPT inside the iPhone, and it lands weeks before OpenAI's planned consumer gadget.

Democrat Graham Platner filed paperwork to withdraw from the Maine Senate race Friday, clearing the field for the party to pick a new nominee against Republican Senator Susan Collins. The seat is one of a handful both parties see as decisive for Senate control in the midterms.

Platner had been the presumptive challenger. His exit forces Maine Democrats into a compressed scramble for a replacement, and Collins, seeking another term, gets a brief reprieve from a race the national parties have already been pouring money into.

Police have arrested a man on suspicion of murder after the death of former MP Ann Widdecombe at her Dartmoor home. Widdecombe, a fixture in British politics for decades, was found dead on Friday morning.

Officers initially saw nothing suspicious before reclassifying the case as a murder investigation. Detectives are now piecing together her final hours as tributes pour in across Westminster.

Typhoon Bavi, a storm nearly 1,000km wide, is heading straight for Taiwan and south-eastern China. Forecasters call it one of the strongest in decades, and landslides have already killed 15 in the Philippines.

EasyJet has agreed to a surprise takeover after US firm Apollo trumped an earlier bid from Castlelake. Apollo's offer sets up one of the biggest shake-ups in European aviation in years.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney defended a controversial trip to Saudi Arabia and hit back at his critics. Carney argued the visit served Canada's economic interests despite objections over Riyadh's human rights record.

A sweeping bipartisan housing bill becomes law at midnight even though President Trump refuses to sign it. Trump is withholding his signature to pressure the Senate over a separate voter-ID measure that lacks the votes to pass.

A Legionnaires' disease outbreak on Manhattan's Upper East Side has infected 46 people and rattled the neighborhood. Health officials traced the source to mist from contaminated water-cooling systems.

A federal appeals court upheld Illinois' ban on semiautomatic weapons, handing gun-control advocates a significant win. Judges rejected arguments that the restrictions violate Second Amendment protections.

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The S&P 500 closed the week higher, rising 0.4% on Friday for its fourth winning week in five. Nvidia climbed about 4% and Meta jumped roughly 6%, powering the major indexes to fresh gains.

Korean chip giant SK Hynix jumped 13% on its first day of Nasdaq trading, closing at $168.01. Shares priced at $149 raised $26.5 billion to fund factory and equipment expansion for AI memory.

The International Energy Agency projects global demand will fall in 2026, its first annual drop since the pandemic. Higher prices and supply disruptions are set to shave roughly a million barrels a day.

Researchers reported they grew early sperm cells from human stem cells nurtured in a pouch on a mouse kidney. Cells reached the spermatogonia stage after six months but stopped short of mature sperm, a milestone still years from the clinic.

Scientists analysed 70,000 studies and found roughly 40% of preprint conclusions unchanged after peer review. Preprinted papers were retracted at about half the rate of those never posted early.

Internal documents show the National Science Foundation plans deep cuts to its engineering, computing, and physical-science directorates to fund a White House initiative. Agency leaders aim to claw back roughly $500 million already awarded, defying a congressional cap on such reductions.

Scottie Scheffler shot a 2-over 72 to miss the cut at the Scottish Open, ending a run of made cuts stretching back nearly four years. The stumble comes a week before The Open Championship.

Rookie JJ Wetherholt agreed to an eight-year deal worth up to $132 million, per sources. Rookie of the Year favorite at 23, Wetherholt anchors a St. Louis payroll on the rise again.

Dallas completed a six-team trade by signing Euro prospect Tarik Biberovic, landing Santi Aldama and Marcus Sasser. Deal also sent Khris Middleton back to Washington and traces to Dallas unwinding the Luka Doncic saga.

Ariana Grande has dropped out of "American Horror Story" Season 13 as her "Eternal Sunshine" world tour schedule tightened. She had been announced alongside a returning slate of franchise regulars.

Director Gina Prince-Bythewood will preview at Martha's Vineyard on the festival's opening night in August. Starring Viola Davis, Idris Elba, and Cynthia Erivo, the fantasy epic hits theaters in January 2027.

Prince Harry visited the King alongside Meghan and their children for the first meeting in more than four years. Archie and Lilibet saw their grandfather in person, a rare thaw after years of public strain.

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What it is: The Commerce Department moved on Friday to ease export controls on the United Arab Emirates, promising a "favorable review" of applications to ship advanced American semiconductors to the Gulf. Buried in a seventeen-page rule, the change singles out MGX — an Abu Dhabi-backed investment firm — for smoother access to the chips and servers that power the most advanced artificial intelligence being built today.

The detail: MGX is hardly an ordinary applicant, having recently routed a $2 billion investment into the crypto exchange Binance through a stablecoin closely tied to the Trump family's own digital-currency venture. Senator Elizabeth Warren seized on that connection within hours, branding the provision "corrupt" and warning that hard-won national-security safeguards are being quietly bargained away to a favored foreign firm in exchange for private financial gain.

Why it matters: Advanced AI chips are now treated as strategic assets, and Washington has spent two full years fencing them off from rivals to protect a narrowing American technological lead. Loosening that fence for a Gulf partner with deep commercial ties to China's supply chain risks leaking sensitive capability abroad, even as the administration insists the arrangement cements a valuable and increasingly important alliance in a region it is racing to pull firmly into the American orbit.

What to watch: Congress could attempt to claw back the rule, and Warren has already signaled hearings that would drag the Trump-crypto connection squarely into public view over the coming weeks. Whether other Gulf states now line up seeking the very same favorable treatment will reveal if Friday's decision was an isolated favor or the opening of a far wider door, and export-control hawks in both parties will be watching where those chips physically end up once they leave American soil.

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