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Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Anthropic says new Claude models will embed watermarks in generated text and C2PA metadata in files to comply with the EU AI Act, and it will update past 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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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO yet, 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
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 …
Bloomberg:
Intel raised $20B in an upsized share sale, up from the $15B it was targeting on Monday; sources say the sale drew $100B+ in demand; INTC is up 145%+ YTD  —  Making Sense of the Multibillion-Dollar Numbers of Nvidia Deal, Intel Share Sale  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Unmute
Jing Yang / The Information:
Manus says it will “soon return to operating as an independent company”, implying it is close to reversing its acquisition by Meta, after China's order in April  —  AI startup Manus said on Tuesday that it will “soon return to operating as an independent company,” …
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 15%+  —  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 …
Financial Times:
Nvidia partners with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and others on a $500B funding package for AI infrastructure development
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B-parameter MoE model that it says offers up to 4x faster output, and agentic AI model router NeMo Switchyard  —  Artificial intelligence silicon and software giant Nvidia Corp. today announced two new services: a highly customizable Nemotron model …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Phia co-founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni pushed for and were aware for seven months of using “cookie stuffing” to claim affiliate commissions  —  Phia co-founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni pushed for features in the e-commerce startup's software that took credit …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Spotify plans to roll out AI Persona labeling in mid-September for profiles that do “not represent a real person” and says it will use human review and AI tools  —  Artist profiles on Spotify that do ‘not represent a real person’ will get an ‘AI Persona’ badge.
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised $40M led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation  —  As closed-source models have gotten more expensive, businesses have found workarounds by customizing open-source AI for their specific needs.
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
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 …
Julian Hast / Bloomberg:
OpenAI is hiring a power-trading lead to execute commodity hedging across its data center power portfolio, as tech companies seek a steady supply of 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.
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Zuckerberg's long essay returns to his “open” AI arguments at an opportune time, as Chinese open-weight models are “close enough” to frontier at much less cost  —  Zuck returns to his “open” AI arguments at an opportune time...  I'm old enough to remember …
Financial Times:
How India's IT services sector, which employs 6M people, contributes ~7% of GDP, and generates $300B+ annually, is shedding jobs as AI automates formulaic tasks  —  It was around 1.30am by the time Rakesh, a 45-year-old Oracle employee in the Indian technology hub of Bengaluru …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
SpaceX's earnings show X's Q2 ad revenue at $367M, down from Twitter's $1.08B in Q2 2022; in 2022, Elon Musk said he would take X's 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.
Claude / @claudeai:
Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent at $2/1M input tokens and $10/1M output tokens, canceling its planned increase on September 1  —  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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Matthew Belloni / Puck:
Sources: David Ellison told execs he will move Paramount out of California if AG Rob Bonta doesn't negotiate a settlement of the WBD antitrust case by October 1

Washington Post:
Sources: Trump took a secret flight from Turkey on July 8 amid an Iranian assassination threat, leaving journalists and others aboard a “decoy” Air Force One

David Uberti / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Media says 10+ customers signed up for its real-time feed of top Truth Social accounts, mainly high-frequency trading firms paying $60K to $100K per month

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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
Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg:
The US Ninth Circuit dismisses Meta's bid to pause state AGs' landmark trial alleging its products addict children and have caused a youth mental health crisis
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube says that from February 1, 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
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