• New! Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: OpenAI's Hugging Face incident report says AI agents used exploits to gain full admin access to OpenAI's own research cluster supporting its VM environments

• 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

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• Amir Efrati / The Information: Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says OpenAI represents just 5% of Cursor's traffic and Cursor trusted OpenAI to be “neutral”; Musk says he “couldn't care less”

• 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”

• Luke James / Tom's Hardware: California's legislature passes a bill exempting open-source OSes like Linux from a 2025 age-verification law; Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android remain in scope

• Sheena Meng / Bloomberg: Data center development is driving demand for acoustic consultants, as developers and neighboring communities hire acousticians to assess noise emissions

• @claudedevs: Anthropic will “permanently” raise weekly Claude Code limits by 25% on Sept. 14 for most plans, which will work out a 17% reduction, given the current 50% boost   —  Starting September 14, we're permanently raising standard weekly limits in Claude Code by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Until then, the current 50% increase will be in place.

• 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

• Ryan Autullo / Bloomberg Law: Texas, which didn't join a multi-state case against Meta, negotiated a $1.05B side deal that could reach $1.335B if TikTok and YouTube adopt teen safety changes

• Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge: Music producers are calling out tracks suspected of using AI tools like Suno, as the internet becomes increasingly filled with AI-generated music

• Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Industry insiders say Chinese robot makers currently rely on Nvidia silicon and software; Nvidia's physical AI business generates ~$10B in annual revenue

• Taylor Nicole Rogers / Bloomberg: Glassdoor analysis finds 47% of Gen X workers write positively about their companies' AI use, compared with 40% of millennials and 33% of Gen Z workers

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• Kieran Smith / Financial Times: Grindr CEO George Arison plans premium services push, including a product costing up to $350 per month; Grindr averaged 1.4M paying users among 15M MAUs in Q2

• New! Dealroom.co: Faro, which develops data models and AI tools to speed up clinical trials, raised a $37.3M Series B co-led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and S32   —  What's the deal?

• Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information: Elon Musk says SpaceX is “doing in-house casting” for blades and vanes, which can accelerate natural gas turbines “coming online by up to 18 months”

• Financial Times: New AI-powered video tools have accelerated the surge in AI dramas in China; DataEye: 89 of the top 100 animated dramas on Douyin in May were AI productions

• 4 minutes ago Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: OpenAI's Hugging Face incident report says AI agents used exploits to gain full admin access to OpenAI's own research cluster supporting its VM environments

• 9 minutes ago Dealroom.co: Faro, which develops data models and AI tools to speed up clinical trials, raised a $37.3M Series B co-led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and S32   —  What's the deal?

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• 49 minutes ago Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Industry insiders say Chinese robot makers currently rely on Nvidia silicon and software; Nvidia's physical AI business generates ~$10B in annual revenue

• 64 minutes ago Kieran Smith / Financial Times: Grindr CEO George Arison plans premium services push, including a product costing up to $350 per month; Grindr averaged 1.4M paying users among 15M MAUs in Q2

• 2½ hours ago Taylor Nicole Rogers / Bloomberg: Glassdoor analysis finds 47% of Gen X workers write positively about their companies' AI use, compared with 40% of millennials and 33% of Gen Z workers   —  Gen X sees opportunity in AI.

• 4½ hours ago Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge: Music producers are calling out tracks suspected of using AI tools like Suno, as the internet becomes increasingly filled with AI-generated music

• 7 hours ago Luke James / Tom's Hardware: California's legislature passes a bill exempting open-source OSes like Linux from a 2025 age-verification law; Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android remain in scope

• 9 hours ago Sheena Meng / Bloomberg: Data center development is driving demand for acoustic consultants, as developers and neighboring communities hire acousticians to assess noise emissions

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• 10 hours ago Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information: Elon Musk says SpaceX is “doing in-house casting” for blades and vanes, which can accelerate natural gas turbines “coming online by up to 18 months”

• 12 hours ago @claudedevs: Anthropic will “permanently” raise weekly Claude Code limits by 25% on Sept. 14 for most plans, which will work out a 17% reduction, given the current 50% boost   —  Starting September 14, we're permanently raising standard weekly limits in Claude Code by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Until then, the current 50% increase will be in place.

• 12 hours ago 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

• 15 hours ago 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

• 16 hours ago Amir Efrati / The Information: Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says OpenAI represents just 5% of Cursor's traffic and Cursor trusted OpenAI to be “neutral”; Musk says he “couldn't care less”

• 20 hours ago Financial Times: New AI-powered video tools have accelerated the surge in AI dramas in China; DataEye: 89 of the top 100 animated dramas on Douyin in May were AI productions

• 24 hours ago Wall Street Journal: Trade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians opposing data center projects, warning that blocking the projects endangers building-related jobs

• 24 hours ago 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

• 24 hours ago Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Minneapolis-based Yardstik, a provider of workforce monitoring tech, raised a $30M Series B led by Harbert Growth Partners, taking its total funding to $65M

• 24 hours ago 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