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Zack Abrams / The Block:
LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response, says single-verifier setup was deficient; Dune: in April, ~47% of LayerZero OApps had the same default setup  —  Quick Take  — LayerZero published a blog post Friday apologizing for poor communication in the three weeks since the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit.
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI president Greg Brockman's journal has emerged as a star witness in the Musk v. Altman trial; Brockman says he stopped writing about OpenAI in it in 2023  —  The journal of OpenAI president Greg Brockman is now a character in the company's battle with the world's richest man …
Krysta Fauria / Associated Press:
Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality  —  As concerns mount over artificial intelligence and its rapid integration into society, tech companies are increasingly turning …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
GM agrees to pay $12.75M to resolve a California investigation into claims that it illegally sold the location and driving data of OnStar subscribers to brokers  —  GM (GM.N) has agreed to pay $12.75 million to resolve a California investigation into allegations that the Detroit automaker illegally sold …
Sam Rubin / Palo Alto Networks Blog:
Palo Alto Networks says in its testing, three weeks of frontier AI-assisted analysis matched a full year of manual penetration testing, with broader coverage  —  For the last several months, we have had early, unbounded access to the latest frontier AI models.
Alex Lekander / CyberInsider:
EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use “a loophole in the legislation that needs closing”  —  The European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) has warned that virtual private networks (VPNs) are increasingly being used …
Moneycontrol:
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT industry, as services become increasingly automatable  —  On Wall Street, the announcements sounded like the next phase of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom: frontier model companies …
Anthropic:
Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers  —  Last year, we released a case study on agentic misalignment.  In experimental scenarios, we showed that AI models from many different …
The Information:
Source: Mistral AI and TML's founding member Devendra Chaplot, who was considered a marquee hire when he joined xAI in March, exited xAI after roughly a month  —  Cursor is already starting to make its presence known at SpaceX's AI unit, just weeks after Elon Musk's firm got an option to buy the coding startup for $60 billion.
More: MarkTechPost
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA  —  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Tuesday that the later release 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first vehicle …
Bloomberg:
Nintendo says it will increase the price of the Switch 2 globally on September 1, from $450 to $500 in the US, and the price of the original Switch in Japan  —  Nintendo Co. said it will increase the price of its Switch 2 console to $500 from $450, acknowledging pressure on profitability …

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Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
Sources: the EU is set to approve Paramount's $111B WBD takeover provided the company accepts certain remedies, the details of which are still being worked out

Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Sony Pictures Entertainment invests $100M in Cosm, a startup specializing in immersive, large-screen theaters, which has partnerships with NBCUniversal and WBD

Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter:
Court docs: Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino spoke with President Trump in the weeks before the company settled with the DOJ in its monopoly lawsuit

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Bloomberg:
Sources: WH is preparing to order US agencies to partner with AI companies on cybersecurity; the EO wouldn't require pre-release model testing by the government
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
Sony reports Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$19.4B, above ~$18.4B est., ~$1.06B operating profit, below ~$1.7B est., and forecasts FY 2027 net profit up 13% to ~$7.4B
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Instructure says its Canvas edtech platform has been restored after disabling it amid a data extortion attack claimed by ShinyHunters
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