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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Anthropic says new Claude models in the EU will add watermarks to text and C2PA metadata to files, to comply with the EU AI Act, and it will update older models — EU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry — Anthropic will embed watermarks in the text and files generated …
More: Claude, The Economic Times, Business Standard, Business Insider, Digit, Notebookcheck, Cyber Security News, RuntimeWire, RuntimeWire, and Engadget
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Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, r/ClaudeAI, r/claudexplorers, and r/accelerate
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
OpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber, a more cyber-permissive version of GPT-5.6 Sol, to some vetted partners, and expands its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative — OpenAI is introducing a more cyber-permissive version of GPT-5.6 Sol to vetted defenders as it prepares companies for autonomous cyberattacks.
More: Help Net Security, Help Net Security, The New Stack, and OpenAI
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI unveils two Daybreak tiers: Daybreak Blue, which provides access to frontier models, and Daybreak Red, which offers purpose-trained cybersecurity models — Introducing new ways to unlock advanced cyber capabilities together with GPT-5.6-Cyber, our latest cybersecurity-specific model.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
SpaceX's earnings show X's Q2 ad revenue at $367M, down from Twitter's $1.08B in Q2 2022; Elon Musk said he would take X's annual ad revenue to $12B in 2027 — When SpaceX filed for its IPO, we went through the S-1 to point out just how far off the mark Elon Musk's predictions about his Twitter takeover turned out to be.| Financial Times: |
Nvidia partners with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR on a $500B funding package for AI infrastructure development — Apollo, Blackstone and Goldman Sachs are among groups working with chipmaker to raise capital for data centre boom
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details an unreleased Claude model's attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis; it didn't solve it but “unexpectedly” made strides on a related problem — Recently, a member of staff at Anthropic gave Claude an unreasonable challenge. It was about one of the most famous …
More: Neowin, Anthropic, GitHub, and Blockchain.News
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI bought back ~$7B in shares from current and former employees in a tender offer valuing it at $852B, unchanged from its most recent funding round — OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell roughly $7 billion worth of shares in the company ahead of a possible Wall Street debut …
More: TechCrunch, The Information, and RuntimeWire
| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
With his long essay, Zuckerberg returns to his “open” AI arguments at an opportune time, as Chinese open models narrow the performance gap at a much lower cost — Zuck returns to his “open” AI arguments at an opportune time... I'm old enough to remember the last time Mark Zuckerberg …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the past 90 days to earn money starting February 1 — YouTube announced on Monday that new creators will have to meet higher thresholds to begin earning money from ads and subscriptions.| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year compute deal worth $9.1B with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at Riot's Rockdale, Texas campus; RIOT jumps ~25% — Anthropic PBC has struck a $9.1 billion deal with Riot Platforms Inc., a Bitcoin mining company that recently began selling AI data center capacity …
More: Riot Platforms, Blockonomi, The Crypto Times, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, Yahoo Finance, and The Block
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple remains on track to launch a glass-centric design overhaul of the iPhone Pro line in 2027, countering rumors that led Jefferies to downgrade AAPL — Apple Inc. is still planning to offer a glass-centric overhaul of the iPhone for the device's 20th anniversary …
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| Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: |
A US appeals court allows ~2,400 federal lawsuits against social media companies to proceed over claims their products were designed to addict young users — A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms (META.O), Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) …
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| Steve Kopack / NBC News: |
Trump Media reports a Q2 net loss of $238.1M, up from a net loss of $20M in Q2 2025, and says 10+ clients are paying up to $100K per month for its Truth API — The company's interim CEO said more than 10 customer agreements have already been signed for the Truth Social service that launched this month.| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Sources: investor interest in Situational Awareness surged after it nearly blew up on leveraged positions; the fund says it's not accepting new capital for now — Also leveraged ETF momentum, GameStop's eBay bid, event contract tick sizes and private equity boyfriends. — Situational Awareness
Bluesky: @matt-levine
| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Google adds third-party games store Aptoide to the Play Store for Android users in the US after a judge's order in the Epic lawsuit, its first third-party store — A new day has dawned in the Play Store, and it's one that Google tried very hard to avoid. The first third-party app store … | Wall Street Journal: |
How a clause in Elon Musk's Tesla pay package, worth up to ~$1T, could provide him a shortcut around lofty performance targets if Tesla merged with SpaceX — A critical clause in the CEO's Tesla stock award would wipe away lofty performance targets if a merger happened| ABC: |
A look at Western Australian police's first live facial recognition trial, which has scanned 130,000+ people since June, raising accuracy and privacy concerns — By national AI reporter Cam Wilson and ABC Regional Investigations' Andy Burns — abc.net.au/news/ai-police-face- screening-trial-sparks-privacy-concern/ 107009644
More: Silicon UK. Bluesky: @pdutts68 and @jessielilley. Mastodon: @camwilson@mastodon.social
Forums: r/australia, r/aussie, and r/perth
| Nick Gray / PatronView: |
PatronView's owner details a year of fighting scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human page loads, 35,000 Claude crawls per referred user, and Amazon's bot referred none — A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what's working now. August 7, 2026
Bluesky: @bankuei
| Claude / @claudeai: |
Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent at $2/1M input tokens and $10/1M output tokens, canceling a planned September 1 increase — We're making Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent. We launched Sonnet 5 in June at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through August 31, and that price will remain unchanged.
More: RuntimeWire. X: @the_alex, @quinnypig, @kienbuilds, @kylebrussell, @hesamation, @kimmonismus, @the_alex, @maria_rcks, and @mweinbach. Bluesky: @blackamazon
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI — Company is racing to public markets this fall and has fielded tough investor questions on Chinese rivals, Trump-era tensions and AI infrastructure boomSponsor Posts
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