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August 11, 2025, 4:20 PM

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Ina Fried / Axios:
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he is leaving to “become a startup founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization  —  GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Monday that he plans to step down, with Microsoft opting not to directly replace the position …
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Sam Tobin / Reuters:
A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors' IDs, but says it can file new challenges  —  The operator of Wikipedia on Monday lost a legal challenge to parts of Britain's Online Safety Act, which sets tough new requirements …
Omair Pall / Mashable India:
xAI makes Grok 4 free for all users worldwide after making Grok Imagine free for all US users; Grok 4 Heavy remains exclusive to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers  —  xAI releases Grok 4 free, rivals GPT-5 launch.  —  Elon Musk-owned xAI has officially made the latest version of its AI model …
Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Trump family's World Liberty Financial is using a publicly listed company, ALT5 Sigma, to raise $1.5B for the purchase of its WLFI token  —  World Liberty Financial cofounders Zach Witkoff (left) and Eric Trump.  —  The Trump family's crypto business, World Liberty Financial …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing most of its pages after it caught AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine  —  The company says that AI companies have scraped data from the Wayback Machine, so it's going to limit what the Wayback Machine can access.
Luc Olinga / Gizmodo:
Sam Altman says OpenAI is “significantly increasing rate limits for reasoning” for ChatGPT Plus users, as the share of users using reasoning models increases  —  The move is a stunning reversal, proving that even the most powerful AI company can't ignore a mutiny from its loyal user base.

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