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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Anthropic says new Claude models will embed watermarks in text and add 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 …
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| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Intel raised $20B in an upsized share sale, up from the $15B it was targeting; sources say the sale drew $100B+ in demand; INTC is up ~146% in 2026 so far — Making Sense of the Multibillion-Dollar Numbers of Nvidia Deal, Intel Share Sale — Video Player is loading. — Unmute| 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 …
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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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| 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: The Information, TechCrunch, CTech, CNBC, Quartz, Tech Funding News, and RuntimeWire
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| 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 boom| 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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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
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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 …
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| 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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| 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.
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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.| Financial Times: |
Source: OpenAI's AI Ethics Lead Chloé Bakalar departs after less than a year, following exits by the head of safety systems and an ex-head of mission alignment — Chloé Bakalar's departure is one of several high-profile exits at the group in recent weeks as safety concerns mount| Julian Hast / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI is hiring a power-trading lead to manage commodity hedging across its expanding data center power portfolio, as tech companies seek reliable electricity — OpenAI is hiring a power-trading lead to help manage the expanding energy needs of the electricity-intensive data centers running its artificial intelligence models.
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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.| 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) … | 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
More: Gizmodo, Hindustan Times, Watcher Guru, and Business Today
Bluesky: @tcarmody and @masnick.com
| Bloomberg: |
An NYC bill, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calls for Amazon, FedEx, and others to directly employ thousands of delivery workers; the bill could pass this fall — A New York City bill calls for the company to hire thousands of contract couriers. Amazon says the proposal will make delivery pricier and slower.
More: New York Times
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's River AI raised $1B led by General Catalyst to build home or small business computer servers capable of running AI locally — Igor Babuschkin built a new start-up, River AI, and hopes to provide ways for people to “retrain,” or modify, artificial intelligence … Sponsor Posts
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