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Jack Queen / Reuters:
A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was “illegal and baseless”  —  A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, the latest turn in the Claude maker's high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield.
Sam Sabin / Axios:
OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action”  —  OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday …
Financial Times:
The UK Treasury gives the Bank of England a new legal objective to support payment systems and digital money innovation, seeking to keep London competitive  —  Treasury gives central bank a new legal objective as part of effort to promote UK as hub for stablecoins
Bloomberg:
Sources: Advent and Stripe are no longer pursuing a deal to acquire PayPal; the group offered to pay $60.50/share in July, valuing PayPal at $53B  —  A consortium of buyout firm Advent and payment processor Stripe has decided to abandon its pursuit of fintech pioneer PayPal Holdings Inc. …
Will Knight / Wired:
Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms  —  The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon and co-investors back an entity owning 49%, the largest stake, in the company behind the Trump family's planned crypto bank  —  The Emirati ‘spy sheikh’ backs a 49% stake in the entity behind the new World Liberty bank  —  The Abu Dhabi royal sometimes referred …
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
BitGo agrees to buy NYDIG's institutional trading business and related assets, expanding BitGo's derivatives offerings; ~30 NYDIG employees are joining BitGo  —  The crypto infrastructure firm BitGo has agreed to buy the institutional trading business and related assets of NYDIG, CNBC has learned.
Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal:
South Korea unveils a project with KT, SK Telecom, and Kakao to provide premium AI tools to the public for free, a move that treats AI like a public utility  —  Seoul wants to direct use of homegrown AI chatbots to reduce reliance on U.S. or Chinese options, footing the bill and offering unlimited tokens
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: some tech companies are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House  —  Tech firms are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google adds Expert Intelligence to Gemini Notebook, letting users import eligible titles they own in Google Play Books to ask questions, generate podcasts, more  —  Gemini Notebook's new ‘Expert Intelligence’ feature pulls information from the books you've purchased.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Nvidia paused some deals with AI cloud providers in the revenue-sharing program it announced in July; Nvidia says the program is still in place  —  The company is rethinking the program less than two months after announcing it  —  Nvidia paused some deals in a new financing initiative …
Bloomberg:
Tencent releases Hy4 Preview, a 770B-parameter open model with 1M context window, and says it outperforms Z.AI and Moonshot models in internal tests  —  Tencent Holdings Ltd. released a foundation model it says outperforms rivals Z.AI Co. and Moonshot AI in internal tests …
Paresh Dave / Wired:
Sources: Meta is testing robots from ABB and others to handle data center tasks such as swapping cables and resetting servers as it seeks to lower labor costs  —  The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky launches a feature to let users hide their posts from non-followers in its Discover feed; other AT Proto apps can choose whether to respect the opt-out  —  After adding support for longer videos just yesterday, open social network Bluesky on Thursday introduced a new algorithmic opt …
CNBC:
Nvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding ~$440B to Nvidia's market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand remains strong  —  Nvidia shares rose nearly 9% Thursday after the chip giant's revenue guidance reassured investors that artificial intelligence demand will remain strong.
Google:
Google launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, which it says delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, 4K upscaling, and more  —  Omni now delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, first and last frame interpolation …
Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: federal authorities prepare to charge a US serviceman and a KPMG employee with insider trading on prediction markets, as part of a new batch of cases  —  Charges could come this fall, part of a new batch of insider trading cases  —  Federal authorities are preparing charges …

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Michael Calderone / New York Magazine:
Q&A with Stars and Stripes EIC Erik Slavin on his firing, the DOD referring even innocuous questions to higher commands under the Trump administration, and more

Sebastian Stafford-Bloor / The Athletic:
Soccer player Jamie Vardy's YouTube channel, owned and produced by Banijay, will broadcast seven of Germany's Bundesliga games live during the 2026-2027 season

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Google changes its spam policy to prevent manual demotions in the EU after publishers complained that it demoted their websites and content in search results

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Google DeepMind:
Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic “box” to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
Meta's AG settlement says its age verification framework will use “reliable age signals” shared with it by “OS and app stores operated by Apple and Google”
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