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August 29, 2026, 4:05 PM

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OpenAI:
OpenAI says it plans to stop providing its models to Cursor from November 12, as “we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our ToS”  —  Today, we notified SpaceX that we intend to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026.
Amir Efrati / The Information:
Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide:
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Benjamin Mann, alleging tens of thousands of copyrighted songs were used to train Claude's LLMs  —  Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have joined forces to sue Anthropic, home of Claude, over what the publishers call …
New York Times:
Sources detail how Meta's $17.1B settlement with state AGs came together as Meta wanted to avoid going to trial following losses in cases in LA and New Mexico  —  State attorneys general spent months in negotiations.  Then, as its legal losses mounted, the social media giant's new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to the table.
Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information:
Job listings and other indicators: SpaceX is working on a Bastrop, TX foundry to build blades for large gas turbines, which could ease its AI power crunch  —  Clues are emerging that Elon Musk intends to bypass the power supply chain for AI data centers in a way others assumed was impossible …
Wall Street Journal:
Trade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians opposing data center projects, warning that blocking the projects endangers building-related jobs  —  Trade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians, joining the building backlash  —  Much of the public outcry …
Bloomberg:
SK Hynix breaks ground for its $4B advanced memory chip packaging facility in Indiana, with mass production of next-generation HBM scheduled to begin in H2 2029  —  SK Hynix Inc. held a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday for its advanced memory packaging facility in Indiana …
Summer Zhen / Reuters:
Xiaomi and CXMT say the Xiaomi 18 Fold smartphone will debut CXMT's LPDDR6 DRAM chips, alongside Xiaomi's in-house 3nm Xring O3 SoC, launching in September  —  China's top memory chipmaker, CXMT (688825.SS), will supply its latest LPDDR6 DRAM chips for Xiaomi's upcoming flagship folding phone, the companies said on Saturday.
Financial Times:
An analysis of the 50 largest bitcoin treasury companies by BTC holdings finds their combined market cap has plunged from $150B in July 2025 to just $67B now  —  Crypto hoarders have been selling tokens and reverting to former activities  —  More than $80bn has been wiped off the value …
More: CryptoSlate.  X: @gtalevi and @davidburton1971
LinkedIn: Adam Morgan McCarthy and Miller Cole.  Bluesky: @jessefelder.com.  Forums: r/Bitcoin
Vallari Sanzgiri / The Hindu BusinessLine:
Jio Platforms, which owns India's largest carrier and counts Meta and Google as investors, gets regulatory approval to float India's largest-ever IPO of ~$4B  —  Debt repayment, strong cash flows underpin investor optimism around Jio IPO  —  Reliance Industries' digital arm Jio Platforms …
Lauren McCarthy / New York Times:
An appeals court rules states can regulate prediction markets, finding Kalshi's sports event contracts are bets, not swaps, and subject to state gambling laws  —  The outcome contradicted an earlier appeals court decision.  Federal regulators said the split rulings called for resolution by the Supreme Court.

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