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New York Times:
An analysis of Grok's responses to 41 political questions in May and July shows it shifted to the right on 50%+ of them, often reflecting Elon Musk's priorities  —  Mr. Musk said he wanted xAI's chatbot to be “politically neutral.”  His actions say otherwise.
Megan Morrone / Axios:
OpenAI details its plan to add guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress by the end of 2025, including routing some conversations to GPT-5-thinking  —  ChatGPT guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress will roll out by the end of the year, OpenAI promised Tuesday.
Nikou Asgari / Financial Times:
WLFI, run by the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, falls 25% to ~$0.21 on its first trading day, giving it a ~$6B market cap; Trump's WLFI is worth ~$3.6B  —  WLFI tokens in circulation have a total nominal value of $6.4bn  —  The crypto token of a project backed by US President Donald Trump fell …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Dolby launches Dolby Vision 2, adding AI-powered Content Intelligence and Authentic Motion, first on Hisense TVs, after debuting HDR format Dolby Vision in 2014  —  The updated format promises ‘authentically cinematic’ use of motion smoothing, and settings that automatically make content look the best depending on your TV and lighting.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Microsoft says it is giving the US GSA $6B+ in potential savings on Office, Azure, Dynamics 365, and more over three years, including $3.1B in the first year  —  Microsoft has agreed to give the U.S. General Services Administration $3.1 billion in potential savings over the course of a year …
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
US procurement records show the Trump administration jettisoned a Biden-era order and reactivated an ICE contract for Tel Aviv-based Paragon's spyware  —  US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on track to gain access to controversial spyware designed to hack phones and read private messages …
Kate Clark / Bloomberg:
A look at a16z's Speedrun, a YC-like accelerator targeting a more creative demographic and which has invested $180M into 150 companies over the past 18 months  —  Big VC funds are moving further upstream, placing bets on the youngest companies.  —  A few weeks ago, about 150 people gathered …

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Matthew Weaver / The Guardian:
Three men have been found not guilty of murdering the journalist Lyra McKee in 2019; the New IRA claimed responsibility for the killing

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The EU antitrust watchdog hits Vivendi with additional charges for its 2023 Lagardere purchase, saying Vivendi made the deal before getting approval

Associated Press:
After a short-term hold, SCOTUS denies former Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge's bid to stay an $800-a-day fine if she refuses to reveal a source

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Aidin Vaziri / San Francisco Chronicle:
Marc Benioff says Salesforce has cut its support staff from 9,000 to ~5,000 in the past year after deploying AI agents to handle a growing share of its work
Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted:
UK-based Phasecraft, which develops algorithms for quantum computers, raised a $34M Series B co-led by Plural, Playground Global, and Novo Holdings
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Alibaba's stock jumped 19%+ in Hong Kong on September 1, after its August 29 report of cloud computing driving strong Q1 results and reports of its new AI chip
Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder:
Tencent open sources translation models Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, which support 33 languages, claiming they beat established models in benchmarks
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