Anthropic revoked OpenAI's API access to Claude, citing ToS violations; sources: OpenAI's use of the API let it compare its models' behavior against Claude's
OpenAI lost access to the Claude API this week after Anthropic claimed the company was violating its terms of service.
Sources: in a rare companywide meeting, Tim Cook said the AI revolution is “ours to grab”, Apple's AI efforts will mirror its iPhone successes, and more
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Anthropic details “persona vectors”, patterns of activity within an AI model's neural network that control its character traits, such as evil and sycophancy
Read the paper — Language models are strange beasts. In many ways they appear to have human-like “personalities” …
SentinelOne researchers detail over 10 offensive cybersecurity patents filed by Shanghai Firetech, a company allegedly involved in Beijing's Silk Typhoon hacks
Researchers have discovered more than 10 patents for powerful offensive cybersecurity technologies filed by a prominent Chinese …
Analysis: since April 2, President Trump has excluded over $100B in US smartphone and laptop imports from tariffs, highlighting conflicting administration goals
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Anthropic says OpenAI staff used Claude Code ahead of GPT-5 launch and it will continue providing API access to OpenAI for benchmarking and safety evaluations
Anthropic says it has revoked OpenAI's access to the Claude API after ChatGPT's engineers were found using Claude's coding tools.
A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's role in a fatal 2019 crash in Florida, and orders the company to pay $243M in damages
Awards $329 Million In Damages Aarian Marshall / Wired : Tesla Found Partly Liable in 2019 Autopilot Death Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget : Tesla found partially liable for a deadly 2019 crash Cassand...
Nintendo Q1: revenue up 132% YoY to ~$3.8B, operating profit up 4.4% to ~$378M; it sold 5.82M Switch 2 units in the first month, more than double the original
Tariffs are pushing prices up but only for the original Switch and Switch 2 accessories, not the Switch 2 itself. @gameoverthirty : My summary of Nintendo's Q1 FYE March 26 investor report: — TLDR: ...
A US jury finds Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act when it intentionally recorded the health data of women via the period tracking app Flo
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Microsoft's latest 10-K shows that the company's committed datacenter construction is down YoY, with almost no new leases signed in the past 12 months
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Manus unveils Wide Research, an experimental feature that lets users on its Pro plan enlist dozens of parallelized AI agents for large-scale, high-volume tasks
Chinese AI startup Manus, which made headlines earlier this year for its approach to a multi-agent orchestration platform for consumers and …
Signatories to the EU's voluntary AI Code of Practice include Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, while Chinese AI companies remain absent
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CB Insights: Figma's IPO was the largest venture-backed IPO by market capitalization for a US tech company since Rivian's debut in November 2021
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Microsoft plans to end support for Windows 11 SE in 2026, five years after launching the OS for low-cost laptops designed to compete with Google Chromebooks
Microsoft pulls plug on special school edition of Windows for low-cost PCs The Indian Express : Microsoft kills Windows 11 SE, support ends officially in October 2026 Moneycontrol : Microsoft pulls th...
Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K and a net loss of $20M, and says it accumulated ~$2B in bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities in July
The company raised nearly $2.4 billion for its Bitcoin treasury strategy in the three-month period
OpenAI removes a ChatGPT feature that let users make their conversations discoverable by Google and other search engines, calling it a “short-lived experiment”
But ChatGPT Is Changing the Game Pieter Arntz / Malwarebytes : OpenAI kills “short-lived experiment” where ChatGPT chats could be found on Google Tom Warren / The Verge : Bing made Google dance and th...
Google says it will preserve “actively used” goo.gl URLs, after announcing earlier that all existing goo.gl links would stop working in August 2025
Here's How to Check Yours Roger Montti / Search Engine Journal : Google Backtracks On Plans For URL Shortener Service Shira Ovide / NZ Herald : Google plans to delete millions of “goo.gl” short links,...
Cerebras announces the $50/month Code Pro and the $200/month Code Max plans, offering users access to Qwen3-Coder at speeds of up to 2,000 tokens per second
Two interesting examples of inference speed as a flagship feature of LLM services today. Bluesky: Tim Kellogg / @timkellogg.me : Cerebras Code — use models hosted on Cerebras with a dev-friendly subsc...
China's World AI Conference struck a stark contrast to Trump's America-first, regulation-light vision, focusing instead on global cooperation for AI safety
Behind closed doors, Chinese researchers are laying the groundwork for a new global AI agenda—without input from the US.
Roblox's average DAUs grew 41% YoY to 111.8M in Q2 and hours engaged rose 58% YoY to 27.4B, driven by the success of tycoon-style farming game Grow a Garden
Roblox (RBLX.N) raised its annual bookings forecast on Thursday and topped 100 million in daily active users thanks to the viral success …
Subzero Labs, which is building Rialo, a blockchain designed for non-crypto developers to build “real-world” apps, raised a $20M seed led by Pantera Capital
Ben Weiss / Fortune :
Source: GPT-5 improvements won't be comparable to the leaps in performance of earlier models, such as between GPT-3 in 2020 and GPT-4 in 2023
The Information :
Instagram now requires users to have a public account with 1,000+ followers to go live, aligning with TikTok; previously, the feature was open to all users
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Sources: Mistral is in discussions, including with Abu Dhabi's MGX, to raise $1B at a valuation of about $10B, up from its previous valuation of €5.8B
Financial Times :
Fundamental Research Labs, which is working on AI applications in different fields, including a general-purpose consumer assistant, raised a $33M Series A
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Filings: crypto industry donated $26M+ to Trump's super PAC, MAGA Inc., in H1, including $5M from Blockchain.com; Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz gave $3M each
Axios : Bluesky: @kleinman Bluesky: Bobby Big Wheel / @kleinman : You know what doesn't depend on a transparent and rule-driven political and economic order? Crypto! Related: www.axios.com/2025/08/...
TikTok launches a new version of its app called TikTok Pro in Germany, Portugal, and Spain, allowing users to earn “virtual sunshine” by supporting charities
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
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