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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.
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LinkedIn: Sarah Kay Wiley and Laura Marquez-Garrett
| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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 … | 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith addressed protests over Israel contracts after seven protesters, including two current Microsoft employees, occupied his office — REDMOND, Wash. — A few hours after his office was infiltrated and occupied by a group protesting Microsoft's technology contracts with Israel …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
| Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
Memo: Verily, Alphabet's life sciences unit, lays off staff and ends its medical devices program, shifting its focus instead to precision health, data, and AI — - Verily, Google's life sciences sister company, has laid off staff and cut its devices program.| 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.
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| Shubham Kalia / Reuters: |
Court filing: Elon Musk's lawyers ask a US judge to block OpenAI from obtaining documents from Meta related to a previous $97.4B bid for OpenAI's assets — Lawyers for Elon Musk have asked a U.S. judge to block ChatGPT-owner OpenAI from obtaining documents from Meta Platforms (META.O) …
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| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
Taiwan indicts three people for allegedly stealing TSMC's 2nm secrets to help Tokyo Electron, the first such case, and recommends a combined 14-year prison term — Taiwan prosecutors said on Wednesday that they indicted three people for theft of trade secrets from chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW) …
More: Benzinga and The Business Times
| 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.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI's restructuring may slip into 2026 as it negotiates with Microsoft; failure to reach a deal in 2025 would let SoftBank withhold its $10B funding — Software giant wants to retain access to start-up's technology while removing artificial general intelligence' clause
More: Benzinga, Tech.eu, and Inc42 Media
| 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 … | Chloe Veltman / NPR: |
AI avatars of the deceased, or “Deadbots”, are used for advocacy and emotional connection, but their potential commercial use raises ethical and legal concerns — AI avatars of deceased people - or “deadbots” - are showing up in new and unexpected contexts, including ones where they have the power to persuade.| 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| Financial Times: |
A look at Xiaomi's evolution from a tech assembler to a high-tech manufacturer, as it applies its smartphone manufacturing strategy to developing EVs and chips — Formerly dismissed as a ‘Lego’ assembler, Xiaomi is building its reputation as a high-tech manufacturer
Bluesky: @jsphctrl.ft.com
| 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| Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World: |
Q&A with Francis Dufay, CEO of Jumia, Africa's largest e-commerce platform, on Temu and other rivals, adding Chinese sellers to stay competitive, AI, and more — • NAIROBI, KENYA — Competition has been steep for Jumiai , Africa's largest e-commerce platform, especially from major Chinese companies like Temu and Sheini .
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| The Information: |
Sources: Apple executives have discussed acquiring Mistral AI and Perplexity, with Eddy Cue as the most vocal champion within the company for such AI deals — This summer, investment bankers came knocking on Apple's door with a pitch: Was the iPhone maker interested in doing a major acquisition …
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| Yashraj Sharma / Rest of World: |
Inside India's growing ~$1.5B e-waste recycling industry: about 95% of workers are employed informally, doing dangerous, toxic, and lawless work for meager pay — The informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit — at a steep human and environmental cost.| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
A profile of Egune AI, a startup building LLMs for the Mongolian language, as it navigates geopolitics, a lack of resources, and the nascent local tech scene — Egune is one of several linguistically and culturally aware AI models built by smaller nations to reduce reliance on American and Chinese tech giants.| 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 periodSponsor Posts
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