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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
The family of a teen who died by suicide sues OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT gave him info about suicide methods and at times deterred him from seeking help — A photograph of Adam Raine taken not long before his death. His baby blanket, which his mother found in his bed, hangs over a corner.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI plans to update ChatGPT to better respond to mental distress cues, provide parental controls, and bolster safeguards around conversations about suicide — OpenAI is making changes to its popular chatbot following a lawsuit alleging that a teenager who died by suicide this spring relied on ChatGPT as a coach.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces an “Awe dropping” event on September 9 at 10am PT at Apple Park, where the iPhone 17 lineup, new Apple Watch models, and more are expected — Apple will hold its annual iPhone-centric event on Tuesday, September 9 at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google says it is behind the viral “nano-banana” image model and launches it as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with finer edit controls in the Gemini app, API, and more — Google is upgrading its Gemini chatbot with a new AI image model that gives users finer control over editing photos …
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| Annelise Levy / Bloomberg Law: |
Filing: Anthropic reached a settlement in a copyright class action brought by authors whose works were included in two pirate databases Anthropic downloaded — Anthropic PBC reached a settlement with authors in a high-stakes copyright class action that threatened the AI company with potentially billions of dollars in damages.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic releases Claude for Chrome, which lets Claude take actions on the user's behalf within the browser, as a research preview for 1,000 Max subscribers — Anthropic is launching a research preview of a browser-based AI agent powered by its Claude AI models, the company announced on Tuesday.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Apple executives have discussed acquiring Mistral AI and Perplexity, with Eddy Cue as the most vocal champion within the company for such AI deals — This summer, investment bankers came knocking on Apple's door with a pitch: Was the iPhone maker interested in doing a major acquisition …
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Trump says Meta plans to spend $50B on its “Hyperion” data center under construction in Louisiana; earlier, Meta said that its investment would exceed $10B — President Donald Trump said that Meta Platforms Inc. is planning to spend $50 billion on its massive data center in rural Louisiana.
More: Fortune, The Information, New York Post, and Reuters
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Okta reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $728M, vs. $711.8M est., net income up 131% to $67M, and increases its fiscal 2026 forecast; OKTA jumps 6%+ after hours — Okta shares rose 4% in extended trading on Tuesday after the identity software maker reported fiscal results that exceeded Wall Street projections.
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| Eric Berger / Ars Technica: |
Google DeepMind's Weather Lab, launched in June, showed superior accuracy in forecasting Hurricane Erin's path up to 72 hours ahead, beating traditional models — In early June, shortly after the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season, Google unveiled a new model designed specifically …
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| Nicholas Nehamas / New York Times: |
SSA's chief data officer files a whistleblower complaint that DOGE uploaded a database with every Social Security number ever issued to an insecure cloud server — DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server …
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| Politico: |
Meta plans to spend tens of millions to launch a super PAC that will back candidates for California state offices with a light-touch approach to AI regulation — The PAC is a show of Meta's deepening political presence in a state that has emerged as the most active and ambitious in attempting to regulate AI.| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Polymarket raised “double-digit millions” from 1789 Capital, which Donald Trump Jr. joined as a partner in 2024; Trump Jr. will join Polymarket's advisory board — The world's largest predictions market has received an investment from Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital fund, Axios has learned exclusively.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Google pilots a new language practice feature on Google Translate with tailored listening and practicing sessions, and also adds AI-powered live conversations — The company also introduced improved AI-powered live translations. — Considering its popularity, Google Translate sure hasn't received much attention lately.
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| Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $591.4M, vs. $553.9M est., net loss down 14% to $47M, and increases its full-year guidance; MDB jumps 28%+ after hours — The document database company added more than 5,000 customers during the first half of the year, a record for that time period| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Stanford study: since 2022, US employment in the most AI-exposed fields fell 13% for entry-level workers but remained stable or grew for more experienced ones — Artificial intelligence is making it harder for entry-level workers in the US to find jobs in fields like software development …
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| Sai Ishwarbharath B / Reuters: |
Internal memo: Indian IT services giant TCS forms a new unit for AI-based operations and names Amit Kapur, who led TCS' UK and Ireland business, as its chief — India's largest IT firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS.NS) formed a new unit for artificial intelligence-based operations on Tuesday … | Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Trump Media and Crypto.com sign a deal to integrate Crypto.com's wallet and adopt the CRO token for Truth Social's rewards; Trump Media will buy $105M in CRO — Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT) said it agreed to form a joint venture with Crypto.com that will invest in the exchange's CRO token … | Miranda Devine / New York Post: |
Melania Trump says she hopes to become the “First Lady of Technology” as she leads the Presidential AI Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI — In an exclusive statement to the New York Post, first lady Melania Trump has revealed her next official project …
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| The Information: |
Sources: HongShan, formerly Sequoia China, has invested only a quarter of the ~$9B it raised in 2022 and has been increasingly looking beyond China for deals — When venture capital giant Sequoia decided to carve off Sequoia China two years ago in response to growing tensions between the U.S. and China …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 for $2,199+ — The second-gen Framework Laptop 16 is coming in November — but the bigger deal is an upgradable laptop GPU.
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| Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
Memo: Verily, Alphabet's life sciences unit, lays off staff and ends its medical devices program, shifting its focus instead to precision health, data, and AI — - Verily, Google's life sciences sister company, has laid off staff and cut its devices program.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft temporarily locked down a building at its HQ after protesters got inside Brad Smith's office, demanding that it cut ties with the Israeli government — Current and former Microsoft employees performed a sit-in protest inside vice chair and president Brad Smith's office.| Bloomberg: |
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The US taking a 10% equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea and a dangerous turn in US industrial policy, but also the least bad option to make Foundry viable — The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.| Chris Eudaily / CNBC: |
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