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AWS says services have “returned to normal operations” after an outage in its US-EAST-1 region, first reported at 3:11am ET, that took down major websites  —  Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday that took down numerous major websites.
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Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack:
Anthropic announces Claude Code on the web and in the Claude iOS app, available in beta as a research preview for Pro and Max users  —  Today, Anthropic's Claude Code agentic coding tool is moving beyond the terminal and coming to the web and the company's mobile app.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers that integrates Claude AI models with lab tools like Benchling to boost efficiency  —  Anthropic on Monday announced Claude for Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers to use the company's artificial intelligence technology …
Jaures Yip / CNBC:
OpenAI says it will work with SAG-AFTRA, CAA, UTA, and others to crack down on Sora 2 deepfakes, following concerns from actor Bryan Cranston and SAG-AFTRA  —  OpenAI announced on Monday in a joint statement that it will be working with Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA, and other actor unions …
Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder:
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-OCR, a vision language model designed for efficient vision-text compression, enabling longer contexts with less compute  —  Chinese AI company Deepseek has built an OCR system that compresses image-based text documents for language models, aiming to let AI handle …
Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review:
Study: brain-computer interface company Science Corp.'s PRIMA device, comprised of a retinal implant and special glasses, restored vision in some blind patients  —  Science Corporation—a competitor to Neuralink founded by the former president of Elon Musk's brain-interface venture …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Reid Hoffman calls Anthropic “one of the good guys” after David Sacks accused the company of running a “regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering”  —  Two of the main members of the PayPal mafia are sparring again — this time over artificial intelligence.
David Pan / Bloomberg:
CleanSpark closed up 4.48% after the bitcoin miner said it would expand into AI infrastructure, hiring Humain president Jeffrey Thomas as SVP of AI data centers  —  Shares of CleanSpark Inc. surged as much as 13% after the Bitcoin miner announced that it was expanding into date-center infrastructure …
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Doc: Google launched a Trusted Tester program that will select 15 of its “Superfans” to test unreleased Pixels, using protective cases to disguise the hardware  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google plans to let Pixel smartphone enthusiasts test out the company's next handset ahead of its public introduction.
Dave Brooks / Billboard:
In a letter to two lawmakers, Ticketmaster says it will ban users from operating multiple accounts and shut down its TradeDesk platform after an FTC lawsuit  —  Dan Wall, the ticketing giant's top corporate and regulatory affairs lawyer, skewers the FTC lawsuit in a feisty letter to two U.S. senators.
Bloomberg:
Nexperia accuses ousted CEO Zhang Xuezheng of spreading “falsehoods” that the chipmaker is now operating independently in China and of “unauthorized actions”  —  Chipmaker Nexperia has accused its ousted chief executive officer of spreading “falsehoods” …
Paul Mozur / New York Times:
A look at the social debates in Chile over AI investments, emblematic of clashes happening globally over balancing economic growth with environmental concerns  —  Political debates have flared across Chile over artificial intelligence.  Should the nation pour billions into A.I. and risk public backlash, or risk being left behind?
Matt Durot / Forbes:
An interview with Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz, who expects a 2025 profit of $170M to $200M, about the company's $300M round that pushed its valuation above Rippling's  —  HR software rivals have accused each other of corporate espionage in lawsuits filed earlier this year.
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
OpenEvidence, which makes an ad-supported AI chatbot for medical professionals, raised $200M at a $6B valuation, up from $3.5B after a $210M Series B in July  —  The three-year-old artificial intelligence start-up has drawn investor attention, and money, as its use among doctors, nurses and others skyrockets.
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
Counterpoint: iPhone 17 models outsold the iPhone 16 by 14% in the first 10 days of US and China sales; base iPhone 17 sales nearly doubled over the 16 in China  —  Apple Inc.'s latest generation of iPhones is off to a faster start than usual, with its most basic model surging in popularity.

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Sources: the legal team for Paramount President Jeff Shell has engaged in preliminary talks about a possible exit from the company, where he was hired in 2024

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