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Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
The family of a teen who died by suicide sues OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT gave him info about suicide methods and at times deterred him from seeking help  —  A photograph of Adam Raine taken not long before his death.  His baby blanket, which his mother found in his bed, hangs over a corner.
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
OpenAI plans to update ChatGPT to better respond to mental distress cues, provide parental controls, and bolster safeguards around conversations about suicide  —  OpenAI is making changes to its popular chatbot following a lawsuit alleging that a teenager who died by suicide this spring relied on ChatGPT as a coach.
Wired:
Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one-month stints; a third researcher also left Meta  —  CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a recruiting blitz to lure top AI researchers to Meta.  WIRED has confirmed that three recent hires have now resigned.
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Salesloft says hackers stole OAuth tokens from its Drift chat agent integration to conduct a Salesforce data theft campaign between August 8 and August 18  —  Update: Story updated with further information.  —  Hackers breached sales automation platform Salesloft to steal OAuth and refresh tokens …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple announces an “Awe dropping” event on September 9 at 10am PT at Apple Park, where the iPhone 17 lineup, new Apple Watch models, and more are expected  —  Apple will hold its annual iPhone-centric event on Tuesday, September 9 at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California …
Zijing Wu / Financial Times:
Sources: a Chinese fab making Huawei's AI chips is set to start production as soon as the end of 2025, with two more due in 2026; the fabs' ownership is unclear  —  Fabrication plants serving Huawei push to increase production as US cuts off access to Nvidia's top processors
Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg:
Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon reports H1 2025 revenue up 44x YoY to $405.2M and a ~$144M profit, after Beijing encouraged companies to use homegrown tech  —  Cambricon Technologies Corp. swung to a record profit in the first half, reflecting a wave of demand for Chinese chips …
Annelise Levy / Bloomberg Law:
Filing: Anthropic reached a settlement in a copyright class action brought by authors whose works were included in two pirate databases Anthropic downloaded  —  Anthropic PBC reached a settlement with authors in a high-stakes copyright class action that threatened the AI company with potentially billions of dollars in damages.
Miles Klee / Rolling Stone:
Elon Musk now regularly posts AI images and videos of scantily clad women generated by Grok's Imagine tool on X, including avatar Ani dancing in her underwear  —  The billionaire has sought to promote his AI chatbot Grok by emphasizing how it can generate animated images of scantily clad women
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Anthropic releases Claude for Chrome, which lets Claude take actions on the user's behalf within the browser, as a research preview for 1,000 Max subscribers  —  Anthropic is launching a research preview of a browser-based AI agent powered by its Claude AI models, the company announced on Tuesday.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft temporarily locked down a building at its HQ after protesters got inside Brad Smith's office, demanding Microsoft cut ties with the Israeli government
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
President Trump says Meta plans to spend $50B on its “Hyperion” data center under construction in Louisiana; earlier, Meta said the investment would exceed $10B  —  President Donald Trump said that Meta Platforms Inc. is planning to spend $50 billion on its massive data center in rural Louisiana.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Okta reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $728M, vs. $711.8M est., net income up 131% to $67M, and increases its fiscal 2026 forecast; OKTA jumps 6%+  —  Okta shares rose 4% in extended trading on Tuesday after the identity software maker reported fiscal results that exceeded Wall Street projections.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Google says it is behind the viral “nano-banana” image model and launches it as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with finer edit controls in the Gemini app, API, and more  —  Google is upgrading its Gemini chatbot with a new AI image model that gives users finer control over editing photos …
Danny Park / The Block:
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US plans to publish GDP and economic data on the blockchain, but gave no details on the blockchain or timeline  —  Start trading crypto Get a crypto rewards card 1inch: Swap Sol ↔ EVM  — U.S. will start issuing economic data on the blockchain …
George Hammond / Financial Times:
Q&A with General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja on the VC firm's “AI roll-up” strategy to buy service businesses and inject them with AI, investment bubbles, and more  —  Head of venture capital firm talks about trusting founders' intuition during a bubble, and the threat of mass job losses
Josh Gabert-Doyon / Financial Times:
Tussell: UK government contracts for AI-related projects have reached £573M in 2025 to July 15, up from £468M for the whole of 2024, as it seeks efficiency  —  Ministers hope technology can help streamline the civil service, reduce government waste and save billions
Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal:
MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $591.4M, vs. $553.9M est., net loss down 14% to $47M, and increases its full-year guidance; MDB jumps 28%+  —  The document database company added more than 5,000 customers during the first half of the year, a record for that time period
Politico:
Meta plans to spend tens of millions to launch a super PAC that will back candidates for California state offices with a light-touch approach to AI regulation  —  The PAC is a show of Meta's deepening political presence in a state that has emerged as the most active and ambitious in attempting to regulate AI.

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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump files a $10B defamation lawsuit against the BBC in a Florida court, alleging it deceptively doctored his January 6 speech in a Panorama documentary

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
The UK government begins its review of the BBC's charter, set to expire in 2027, as ministers consider licence fee reforms and allowing more commercial revenue

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