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September 7, 2025, 8:00 PM

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Sri Muppidi / The Information:
OpenAI told investors that it projects its cash burn this year through 2029 will rise to a total of $115B, about $80B higher than it previously expected  —  OpenAI recently had both good news and bad news for shareholders.  Revenue growth from ChatGPT is accelerating at a more rapid rate than the company projected half a year ago.
Reuters:
Sources: ASML is committing €1.3B for Mistral's €1.7B Series C funding round, becoming the top shareholder, and is expected to get a board seat  —  ASML (ASML.AS), a crucial supplier of advanced chipmaking equipment, is set to become the top shareholder of French artificial …
New York Times:
A look at Ross Ulbricht's return to public life after receiving a pardon in January, including speaking at Bitcoin 2025 and accepting millions in donations  —  Ross Ulbricht, who created the Silk Road dark web marketplace and was serving a life sentence for drug distribution …
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Nvidia opposes the GAIN AI Act, saying the proposed US law forcing AI chipmakers to sell to US buyers first is “just another variation of the AI Diffusion Rule”  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) said on Friday the AI GAIN Act would restrict global competition for advanced chips …
Susanne Barton / Bloomberg:
Microsoft says it's no longer detecting problems for Azure cloud customers, after multiple international cables in the Red Sea were cut  —  Microsoft Corp. said Saturday it's no longer detecting issues with its Azure cloud platform after multiple international cables in the Red Sea were cut.
Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post:
A look at Marc Benioff's pursuit of productivity gains through AI at Salesforce, which has undergone a series of layoffs over the past two years  —  Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has made himself a cheerleader for AI's potential to disrupt work while also laying off staff.  —  Just now
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT is shockingly good at search and demonstrates the potential of combining tool calling with chain-of-thought reasoning  —  “Don't use chatbots as search engines” was great advice for several years... until it wasn't.  —  I wrote about how good OpenAI's o3 was at using …
OpenAI:
OpenAI researchers argue that language models hallucinate because standard training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over admitting uncertainty  —  Read the paper(opens in a new window)  —  At OpenAI, we're working hard to make AI systems more useful and reliable.
Bloomberg:
Filing: Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books  —  Anthropic PBC will pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the AI company's downloading …

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