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🚁 Trump slaps 100% tariff on imported drones
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- President Trump signed an order placing a 100% tariff on imported drones weighing more than 55 pounds with security-sensitive features, while smaller drones face a 25% levy, a move that mainly hits Chinese makers like DJI.
- Drones from allies including the EU, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Taiwan get a lower 15% tariff, and U.K.-made drones face just 10%, with the rules taking effect within 21 days.
- U.S. drone stocks rose after the news, with Unusual Machines jumping over 14% to about $31; Donald Trump Jr. joined that company's advisory board in 2024 and holds shares and warrants in it.
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🤑 Apple proposes a 15% off-store fee
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- Apple has told a District Court it should be allowed to charge a 15% commission on purchases made outside the App Store, filing the proposal in its long-running legal fight with Epic Games.
- The filing came right after the Supreme Court refused to pause the lower-court proceedings while it weighs whether Apple can be held in contempt for charging 27% on off-store purchases despite a judge's injunction.
- Apple compared its rate to rival stores, noting Google Play charges linked-out fees of 20% standard, 15% program, and 10% subscription, rates Epic agreed to, and it must file its Supreme Court brief by September 14.
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⚖️ Google must ease rival app installs
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- A US federal judge, James Donato, ordered Google to simplify how people install competing Android app stores, giving the company one week to strip out extra warning screens and confirmation steps that block rival marketplaces.
- During a hearing in the Epic vs Google antitrust case, Epic showed users faced needless prompts, including tapping a "view" button before an "install" option appeared, which Donato called unacceptable "anticompetitive friction."
- The order builds on Epic's earlier win, where a jury found Google held an illegal monopoly over Android app distribution and billing; the judge rejected Google's claim that the barriers exist for user security.
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🍎 Apple trained a China AI with Alibaba
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- Apple has built a large language model tailored for China, its biggest Asian market, teaming up with Alibaba to bring Apple Intelligence to iPhone users there after years of relying on outside providers like Google's Gemini and ChatGPT.
- The report says Apple Intelligence should arrive in China within months, likely tied to iOS 27 rolling out next month, using Alibaba's Qwen model on compatible iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro devices, plus technology from Baidu.
- China's Cyberspace Administration registered Apple's generative AI services last month, and if the plan works, Apple would be the only firm cleared by the government to offer its own AI model in a country where Western companies have struggled.
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🇨🇳 China’s Z.ai claims top open coding AI
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- Chinese AI startup Zhipu says its new GLM-5.3 model is the most powerful open-weights coding system, beating OpenAI on coding tests with its biggest improvements showing up in agent-based tasks.
- Zhipu built GLM-5.3 on the same base as GLM-5.2, adding only extra post-training, and trained it to find software flaws, reporting 2,436 vulnerabilities across 269 projects, some as old as 40 years, listed in a public registry.
- GLM-5.3 is available now through the GLM Coding Plan and works with coding agents like ZCode, Claude Code, and OpenCode, while the model weights are set to go open source in two weeks once security reviews finish.
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🛡️ WhatsApp adds AI to flag scam messages
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- WhatsApp is testing a feature called Scam Detection that uses AI models running directly on a person's phone to spot and flag suspicious conversations from people who aren't in their contacts.
- The tool, trained on scam patterns from user reports, shows a private warning invisible to the sender and lets people block, report, continue, or mark the chat as trusted to remove future alerts.
- Meta says all analysis happens on-device with no message content leaving the phone, and it will publish model weights and versions publicly so security researchers can confirm the models only detect scams.
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