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Susanne Barton / Bloomberg:
Microsoft says clients of its Azure cloud platform may experience increased latency 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.
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.
Richard Nieva / Forbes:
A profile of Mercor, a Scale AI rival valued at $2B in February, which hires domain experts to train models; it had a $100M run rate in March and $6M H1 profit  —  Mercor, debuting on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, built an AI recruiter to interview job candidates.
More: Inc.  X: @richardjnieva.  LinkedIn: Sundeep Peechu and Peter Fenton.  Bluesky: @dannygroner
Christian Catalini / Forbes:
Christian Catalini, co-creator of Meta's Libra stablecoin project, reflects on Libra's failure, what Stripe's Tempo blockchain can learn from it, and more  —  Stripe just pulled back the curtain on Tempo, its corporate blockchain, and the pitch is a classic.
Bloomberg:
World Liberty Financial blacklisted Justin Sun's wallet after it transferred ~$9M worth of WLFI tokens to exchange HTX; Sun called out the freezing of assets
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate fell from 5.5% in July to 4.5% in August, while active tech job postings declined 2.6% from July  —  Beyond the red-hot area of AI hiring, the job market for much of information-technology is still getting smaller, recent analysis shows
More: Bloomberg and CIO Dive
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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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
After EU's fine ruling, Trump says he may “be forced” to start a trade investigation to nullify the unfair fines, totaling $16.5B for Google and $17B for Apple  —  - CNBC Councils  — Supply Chain Values  — CNBC on Peacock  — Join the CNBC Panel  — Ad Choices
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The EU fines Google €2.95B for abusing its dominance in digital ads, and says its preliminary stance is that Google must divest parts of its ad-tech business

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Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Sources: the Pentagon fired Stars and Stripes' publisher, EIC, and a Middle East reporter for insubordination; the publisher earlier announced his retirement

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Sources: Paramount reps are expected to meet Monday with the California AG's office to discuss a possible settlement of the antitrust suit blocking the WBD deal

Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Chris Aronson, ex-president of domestic theatrical distribution at Paramount, sues the company, claiming breach of contract and age discrimination

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Dominic Preston / The Verge:
OnePlus ends its five-year partnership with camera company Hasselblad and plans to develop its own imaging engine called DetailMax Engine for upcoming phones
Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:
A look at the ramp up of Apple's retail footprint in India, as a source says Apple's revenue grew 13% YoY to $9B during India's fiscal year that ended in March

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Kalley Huang / The Information:
At the White House dinner, Zuckerberg said Meta plans to spend “something like at least $600B” through 2028 on data centers and other infrastructure in the US
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