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Bloomberg:
OpenAI files a motion to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets, saying Apple's allegations are meritless and workers acted lawfully  —  OpenAI is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Apple Inc. accusing the artificial intelligence company of stealing trade secrets …
Herb Scribner / Axios:
OpenAI updates the default model for free users to GPT-5.6 Luna, adds unlimited text chats for free users, rolls out an improved GPT-5.6 Sol version, and more  —  OpenAI on Thursday announced a series of changes that will upgrade ChatGPT for both paid and free users.
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach involved AI agents creating an internal message board, unnoticed by humans, where they shared exploits and planned the hacks  —  At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies …
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Rockstar says it will show an “extended look” at Grand Theft Auto VI on August 27, premiering on Netflix at 3pm ET before streaming on YouTube at 9pm ET  —  The preview will stream on both Netflix and YouTube. … We'll be getting an in-depth preview of Grand Theft Auto VI very soon …
Bloomberg:
DeepSeek says it plans to implement substantial price increases across its AI services; V4 Flash currently costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens  —  DeepSeek plans to implement a significant price increase across its AI services, an unusual shift from the disruptive Chinese player …
Artificial Analysis:
Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 scores 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, putting Meta next to SpaceXAI in a tie for third place amongst US labs  —  Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh) lands at 54, up 3 points from Muse Spark 1.1 (51) and 11 points from Muse Spark 1.0 (43, April).
Jyoti Mann / The Information:
Source: Muse Spark 1.1 model breached a company's systems during cybersecurity testing; Meta says evaluation partner Irregular caused a sandbox misconfiguration
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Scientists trained AI on genetic sequences to design viruses not found in nature, yielding 16 viable viruses that can infect bacteria but don't threaten humans  —  Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes.
Reuters:
SpaceX and Tesla plan to initially invest $16.8B to build Terafab in Grimes County, Texas; combined demand from SpaceX and Tesla is forecast to top 1 TW  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX <SPCX.O> and Tesla <TSLA.O> will initially invest $16.8 billion to build Terafab, an advanced AI semiconductor complex …
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from Google DeepMind CEO day-to-day duties for at least a year and struggled to get satisfaction out of the role  —  THE SCOOP  —  Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis's departure Wednesday from the top job at the company he founded in 2010 …
Bloomberg:
Google centralizes its AI leadership at Mountain View in a bid to catch its rivals; Sebastian Borgeaud, who led a major AI coding effort, moved from the UK
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Sources: some Google researchers have grown frustrated over AI compute access for ambitious projects while Google Cloud sells TPUs to customers like Anthropic  —  Depending on where you sit, Google either has the most enviable position in artificial intelligence or is bleeding top talent …
Victoria Turk / Wired:
Google DeepMind says its WeatherNext model can accurately predict a storm's track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data, and open sources the model  —  Its WeatherNext model, which will be open-sourced, can accurately predict both a storm's track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data.
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
OpenAI debuts Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling skills and MCP servers, and says Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, and Vercel are on its steering committee  —  OpenAI's GPT-5 turns one tomorrow, and the company is marking the week by looking beyond individual models.
Lawfare:
Analysis: Grokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24, when it stopped processing human-suggested edits; xAI launched it in October 2025  —  A halt in Grokipedia's edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content.
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Suno says it will adopt new audio watermarking tech, fingerprinting tech, transparency tools, and a new download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI music  —  The company is changing its download policy and rolling out new watermarking technology.
Anna Tong / Forbes:
Docs: US data labeling companies, like Surge AI and Mercor, that sell training datasets to US AI labs and the government are also selling them to Chinese labs  —  The same Silicon Valley startups supplying OpenAI, Anthropic and the U.S. government are also selling AI training datasets …
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Cloudflare open sources a new version of Cloudflare OS, a browser-accessible AI agentic workspace for enterprises that lets employees build custom micro-apps  —  Cloudflare Inc. today announced the launch of Cloudflare OS, an open-source artificial intelligence agentic workspace available through …
Colin Demarest / Axios:
Defense tech company Hadrian raised a $1.37B Series D at an $8B valuation to expand its factories and Opus software platform, after a $260M Series C in 2025  —  Hadrian, the factory builder and defense manufacturer, raised $1.37 billion in venture capital and is now valued just shy of $8 billion.
Jenny Lee / CNBC:
Nintendo reports Q1 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$3.3B, above $2.8B est., net income up 54% YoY to ~$933M, vs. ~$495M est., and Switch 2 sales down 34% YoY to 3.82M  —  Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
Julia Hornstein / The Information:
Sources: Panthalassa, which aims to power data centers in the ocean using energy generated by waves, is raising $225M at a ~$2B valuation, up from $1B in May  —  AI data centers need boatloads of power, a need that's set off a flood of investment into startups harnessing nuclear or solar energy to run the servers.

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From Mediagazer

The Wrap:
The FCC votes to repeal the national broadcast ownership cap and replace it with a case-by-case review, approving the measure by a 2-1 margin

Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg:
The UK Competition and Markets Authority clears Paramount's takeover of WBD, saying “after the merger, Paramount will continue to face sufficient competition”

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Fox reports Q4 revenue up 28% YoY to $4.21B, above $3.64B est., ad revenue up 78% to $1.92B, driven by its World Cup broadcast and growth at Tubi; FOX jumps 5%+

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Wired:
A researcher with access to North Korean hackers' servers says their operations have impacted 1,640 companies across 57 countries over the past 22 months
X: @wired.  Bluesky: @dell and @agreenberg.  Threads: @ahess247
Forums: r/craftofintelligence, r/pwnhub, and r/blackhat
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
How Trump's push for data centers is driving a boom in gas power plants, and a look at Meta's El Paso data center, which will have 813 gas-burning generators
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
Nikita Bier steps down as X's head of product after starting the role in July 2025, saying “running this app is a 24/7 job”, and will continue as an adviser
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