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Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one-month stints; a third researcher also left Meta  —  CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a recruiting blitz to lure top AI researchers to Meta.  WIRED has confirmed that three recent hires have now resigned.
Hayden Field / The Verge:
Anthropic's Threat Intelligence report for August says Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a “vibe-hacking” data extortion scheme  —  Anthropic's new report shows how bad actors are misusing Claude —and, likely, other AI agents. … “Agentic AI systems are being weaponized.”
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.
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Apple partners with TuneIn to make Apple Music's six radio stations available outside its app, a first, as it seeks to compete with Spotify; TuneIn has 75M MAUs  —  The tie-up with TuneIn to distribute Apple's radio stations aims to introduce the company's music service to more people
Zijing Wu / Financial Times:
Sources: a Chinese fab making Huawei's AI chips is set to start production as soon as the end of 2025, with two more due in 2026; the fabs' ownership is unclear  —  Fabrication plants serving Huawei push to increase production as US cuts off access to Nvidia's top processors
Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg:
Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon reports H1 2025 revenue up 44x YoY to $405.2M and a ~$144M profit, after Beijing encouraged companies to use homegrown tech
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Salesloft says hackers stole OAuth tokens from its Drift chat agent integration to conduct a Salesforce data theft campaign between August 8 and August 18  —  Update: Story updated with further information.  —  Hackers breached sales automation platform Salesloft to steal OAuth and refresh tokens …
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
The FBI and agencies in the UK, Canada, and others warn that a Chinese hacking campaign targeting US telecoms has expanded to 80 countries and 200+ US companies  —  The advisory shows global resolve against a hacking campaign that exceeds accepted norms for snooping.
Miles Klee / Rolling Stone:
Elon Musk now regularly posts AI images and videos of scantily clad women generated by Grok's Imagine tool on X, including avatar Ani dancing in her underwear  —  The billionaire has sought to promote his AI chatbot Grok by emphasizing how it can generate animated images of scantily clad women
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft temporarily locked down a building at its HQ after protesters got inside Brad Smith's office, demanding Microsoft cut ties with the Israeli government
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.
Reuters:
Sources: ByteDance plans an employee share buyback at $200.41/share, valuing it at $330B+, up from $315B in March 2025, and its Q2 revenue grew 25% YoY to $48B  —  ByteDance, the owner of short-video app TikTok, is set to launch a new employee share buyback that will value the Chinese technology giant …
Danny Park / The Block:
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US plans to publish GDP and economic data on the blockchain, but gave no details on the blockchain or timeline  —  Start trading crypto Get a crypto rewards card 1inch: Swap Sol ↔ EVM  — U.S. will start issuing economic data on the blockchain …
George Hammond / Financial Times:
Q&A with General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja on the VC firm's “AI roll-up” strategy to buy service businesses and inject them with AI, investment bubbles, and more  —  Head of venture capital firm talks about trusting founders' intuition during a bubble, and the threat of mass job losses
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.
Bloomberg:
Circana: in July, Sea's Free Fire jumped seven spots to 6th in US mobile game sales, above COD, driven by anime and Netflix tie-ins; US users buy 2M Switch 2s  —  US gamers are spending more on Sea Ltd.'s Free Fire than Call of Duty Mobile, with anime and Netflix tie-ins helping the title surge …

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From Mediagazer

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi have agreed to part ways following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr. and her behavior while reporting on him

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Sources: Forbes has cut ties with dozens of contributing writers; one exec said Forbes needs to ensure the contributor model is “financially sound”

Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the First Amendment Watch's SLAPP Back Initiative, a US SLAPP tracker; in 2024, 69 of 500 cases involved the media, of which 46 were dismissed

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Jordan Novet / CNBC:
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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%+
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
President Trump says Meta plans to spend $50B on its “Hyperion” data center under construction in Louisiana; earlier, Meta said the investment would exceed $10B
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
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