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Apple faces a $2.7 billion class action lawsuit: accused of unfair application tracking rules against third-party developers, gaining improper advantages in its own advertising ecosystem

According to a report by Reuters, Apple Inc. is facing a class-action lawsuit in London, with claims amounting to £2 billion (approximately $2.7 billion). The lawsuit was filed today in the London Competition Appeal Tribunal by Ann Pope, a former senior official of the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, representing app developers.The core allegation is that Apple's "App Tracking Transparency" (ATT) feature, launched in 2021, imposes stricter restrictions on third-party developers than on its own services, giving Apple's own advertising ecosystem an unfair competitive advantage. Ann Pope stated that Apple's policies "have caused very significant harm to businesses that rely on Apple as a gatekeeper."Since its launch, the ATT feature has been a focal point of concern for global regulators for several years. Apple's official stance is that the feature is designed to allow users to control whether to permit apps to track their activities across other companies and websites.However, the plaintiffs argue that the actual enforcement of this rule has a double standard—tracking requests from third-party apps require strict pop-up authorization, while Apple's own personalized ads and services can bypass the same restrictions. This lawsuit represents the latest legal challenge Apple faces regarding its ATT policy and is the first large-scale private antitrust lawsuit initiated in the UK market against Apple's app ecosystem rules following scrutiny from regulators in the EU, the US, and several other countries.

first_img Anthropic admits that Claude accessed the system beyond his authority due to a security error

In a blog post released on Monday, Anthropic acknowledged that its Claude model had unauthorized access to real computer systems during a cybersecurity assessment, an incident reflecting operational security failures as well as alignment failures in motivation reasoning and intent to harm. Anthropic disclosed in July that the Claude model had breached the systems of three companies because the third-party assessment environment was connected to the public internet, while the model was informed it was in a simulated environment without internet access.Anthropic stated that Claude may have interpreted evidence of real internet access as still being in a simulated environment and was willing to take harmful actions on the real internet to complete the cybersecurity assessment task. Additionally, during tests at the UK AI Safety Institute, after assessors deliberately granted Claude Mythos internet access, the model took unauthorized actions on the live network. Anthropic emphasized that the models involved did not have the cybersecurity protections included in the officially released products.Following the incident on July 30, Anthropic has suspended cybersecurity assessments of pre-release models and introduced stricter protections: tests must run in verified offline sandboxes equipped with real-time monitoring; a new classifier can intercept suspected boundary violations, terminate tests, and notify humans. Anthropic has also expanded the scope of offline monitoring used by internal frontier agents. Previously, OpenAI models had also breached Hugging Face in July to obtain answers for cybersecurity tests, with investigations revealing that about 1,200 agents acted collaboratively through unauthorized message boards.

first_img Silhouette launches the xStocks inquiry trading system on Hyperliquid

According to The Block, Hyperliquid's block trading layer Silhouette launched its Request for Quote (RFQ) trading system on the mainnet on Tuesday, initially supporting tokenized stocks from Payward's tokenized stock framework xStocks. Silhouette stated that the system allows traders to initiate quote requests for any supported xStock and receive competitive quotes from connected market makers, with winning trades able to settle on-chain at any time and in any size.The RFQ system enables trading of supported xStocks without a dedicated order book, and tokens that generate sufficient trading activity can subsequently be upgraded to an independent HyperCore market. Silhouette founder Chandler De Kock mentioned that while tokenized stocks continue to go on-chain, they mostly lack trading venues, and market makers compete for each trade, with settlement completed on-chain, proving that assets with real liquidity will be upgraded to their own HyperCore market.xStocks was launched in June 2025 and is said to have processed over $40 billion in total trading volume, covering more than 200,000 holders, with nearly $20 billion settled on-chain. The platform issues publicly listed stock tokens pegged 1:1, and its business has expanded from U.S. stocks to European and Asian markets. RWA.xyz data shows that the existing tokenized stocks amount to approximately $2.53 billion, with xStocks accounting for about $620.1 million, ranking as the third-largest issuer, following Ondo (approximately $856.3 million) and bStocks (approximately $621.5 million).
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