Seattle Times, Newsday Sue OpenAI, Microsoft Over Copyright Claims
Lawsuit is similar to claims New York Times that the companies improperly used article content to develop models
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Huawei’s New Smartphone Chip Tests a Path Around U.S. Restrictions
The new chip, Kirin 9050 Pro, uses a design based on the Tau Scaling Law Huawei presented in May.
OpenAI Pledges New Rules for Reporting Troubling Behavior by Its AI Agents
Company confirms it knew about incident in which its AI agents turned a German wiki site into their own message board
OpenAI Agents Took Over German Website Earlier This Year, New Report Finds
The agents coordinated to turn the largely defunct wiki site into a message board for their own use in an incident predating the Hugging Face attack, report says.
Abu Dhabi’s G42 Considers US Ownership to Safeguard AI Chip Access
The company has spent years trying to get out from under US suspicion over its China ties.
DeepSeek Plans Major Huawei Chip Order in New AI Data Center
However, component shortages could limit Huawei’s production output and extend the timeline for when DeepSeek can receive the chips.
ByteDance Secures $30 Billion Loan as AI Investments Grow
The TikTok owner is ramping up spending as China’s AI competition heats up.
Saudi Firm Humain Unveils Arabic Language Model Developed With China’s MiniMax
As the U.S. and China dominate AI development, other nations have little choice but to rely on American or Chinese models.
TikTok Backed out of House Meeting to Avoid Child-Safety Scrutiny
TikTok declined to appear before the House in light of Meta’s $18 billion child-safety settlement, congressman says.
Nvidia Discusses $2.5 Billion Investment in Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab
It's the latest in Nvidia's push to support American open source AI developers
Adobe Taps Business Product Chief as Next CEO
Anil Chakravarthy, an Adobe president who oversees development and sales of business products, is taking over for departing CEO Shantanu Narayen in December.
Oura Files to Go Public
Oura's filing shows it is very profitable and continuing to grow quickly.
OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra Model, Suggests It Could Be AGI
In a press briefing, OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman suggested that GPT-6 Astra could be 'artificial general intelligence.'
Tesla Debuts Cybercab at Launch Event
The Information reported last month that Tesla had told staff it would launch the Cybercab in Austin as soon as the end of August.
Nvidia to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion
Nvidia in now in charge of a key distribution channel for millions of models.
Moonshot AI Files Confidentially for Hong Kong IPO
Moonshot’s IPO filing came after the explosion of its Kimi K3 model.
Exclusive: Micro1 Pledges $1 Million AI Training to Former Spirit Employees in Bid for Airline’s Data
The startup has also promised remove the identifies and to exclude sensitive employee records
Exclusive: Meta Tells Engineers AI Token Usage Won’t Be Part Of Performance Reviews
After pushing engineers to become more ‘AI native,’ Meta is backing away from using AI metrics to grade them
Meta Unveils New AI Model in Accelerated Effort to Catch Rivals
Company says Muse Spark 1.3 delivers stronger coding and agentic performance, while using 25% fewer tokens than its predecessor.
Snowflake Raises Annual Sales Forecast as AI Coding Adoption Grows
Snowflake's business is continuing to benefit as more of its customers build applications using its AI coding tool, Cortex Code.
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