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Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products  —  The allegations mirror those of OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve models
Bloomberg:
Sources: PayPal is attracting takeover interest after a stock slide over the past year wiped out almost half of its value; PYPL closes up 5.76%  —  PayPal Holdings Inc., the digital payments pioneer, is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after a stock slide wiped out almost half of its value …
Citrini Research:
Imagining an AI-driven “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis”: as white-collar layoffs grow, the human-centric consumer economy withers and the social fabric frays  —  A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future  —  Preface  —  What if our AI bullishness continues to be right …
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Jack Pitcher / Wall Street Journal:
Software stocks extended their weeks-long selloff on Monday; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in a post by Citrini Research  —  The weeks-long selloff in software stocks deepened Monday amid general unease about the threat posed by AI.  —  Software-makers AppLovin, CrowdStrike …
Pia Singh / CNBC:
IBM shares closed down 13.15% after Anthropic outlined in a blog post how Claude Code can automate the exploration and analysis phases of COBOL modernization  —  International Business Machines stock is getting slammed Monday, becoming the latest perceived victim of rapidly developing AI technology …
Axios:
Sources: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning for what is likely to be a tense meeting over Claude usage  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning for what sources …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: some Xbox staffers say they are relieved that Sarah Bond is leaving, after she led a pivot away from the console with the “Xbox everywhere” strategy  —  Microsoft has a new gaming CEO who wants to bring Xbox back from the brink. … Xbox fans had been anticipating …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances, entering into multiyear deals with Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, and McKinsey to help deploy its enterprise platform Frontier  —  OpenAI on Monday announced it is entering into multiyear partnerships with four consulting firms that will help the company deploy its enterprise platform called Frontier.
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
Uber launches Uber Autonomous Solutions, offering services like insurance, roadside assistance, and “AV mission control” tools, and will offer fleet financing  —  App says new operation will boost commercialisation of AVs  —  Uber has set up a new initiative to serve a growing number …
Anissa Gardizy / The Information:
How OpenAI scrambled for compute as Stargate stalled amid clashes with SoftBank; sources say OpenAI building its own data centers is not its near-term priority  —  When President Donald Trump announced the $500 billion Stargate AI data center project in January 2025, the three companies charged …
Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal:
Some AI startups are boosting their valuations by raising capital in back-to-back or multitiered deals, raising questions about how much they are really worth  —  The race to get into hot AI startups has led to unequal deals for investors, raising questions about how much companies are really worth
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Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Sources: the DOJ issued a subpoena to NYT freelancer Matthew Cole, seeking to force him to reveal his sources about a failed top secret mission in North Korea

Michael Calderone / New York Magazine:
Q&A with Economist EIC Zanny Minton Beddoes on her Elon Musk interview, the move away from de-platforming, the growing visibility of Economist journalists, more

Stephen Council / Business Insider:
Sensor Tower estimate: ChatGPT advertisers grew from around 300 in April to more than 820 in July; retail shopping remains the biggest sector by ad spend

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Anthropic:
Anthropic details the AI Fluency Index, tracking 11 behaviors that represent human-AI collaboration and measure how people collaborate with AI
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New York Times:
A look at Japan's Team Mirai, a party founded by software engineers that won 11 of 465 parliament seats by promising self-driving buses and high-tech jobs
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget:
Samsung plans to add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the upcoming S26 series; users can launch the Perplexity agent by saying “Hey Plex” or with a physical button
Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai:
Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI accounts were banned after linking Gemini models via OpenClaw; Peter Steinberger says he may “remove support”
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the “doomer narrative” may be winning
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