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Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Anthropic says new Claude models will embed watermarks in generated text and C2PA metadata in files to comply with the EU AI Act, and it will update past models  —  EU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry  —  Anthropic will embed watermarks in the text and files generated …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple remains on track to launch a glass-centric design overhaul of the iPhone Pro line in 2027, countering rumors that led Jefferies to downgrade AAPL  —  Apple Inc. is still planning to offer a glass-centric overhaul of the iPhone for the device's 20th anniversary …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO yet, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI  —  Company is racing to public markets this fall and has fielded tough investor questions on Chinese rivals, Trump-era tensions and AI infrastructure boom
Financial Times:
Nvidia partners with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and others on a $500B funding package for AI infrastructure development  —  Apollo, Blackstone and Goldman Sachs are among groups working with chipmaker to raise capital for data centre boom
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year compute deal worth $9.1B with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at Riot's Rockdale, Texas campus; RIOT jumps 15%+  —  Anthropic PBC has struck a $9.1 billion deal with Riot Platforms Inc., a Bitcoin mining company that recently began selling AI data center capacity …
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Zuckerberg's long essay returns to his “open” AI arguments at an opportune time, as Chinese open-weight models are “close enough” to frontier at much less cost  —  Zuck returns to his “open” AI arguments at an opportune time...  I'm old enough to remember …
Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI bought back ~$7B in shares from current and former employees in a tender offer valuing it at $852B, unchanged from its most recent funding round  —  OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell roughly $7 billion worth of shares in the company ahead of a possible Wall Street debut …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Spotify plans to roll out AI Persona labeling in mid-September for profiles that do “not represent a real person”; the system uses human review and AI tools  —  Artist profiles on Spotify that do ‘not represent a real person’ will get an ‘AI Persona’ badge.
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B-parameter MoE model that it says delivers up to 4x faster output speeds, and an agentic AI model router  —  Artificial intelligence silicon and software giant Nvidia Corp. today announced two new services: a highly customizable Nemotron model …
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised $40M led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation  —  As closed-source models have gotten more expensive, businesses have found workarounds by customizing open-source AI for their specific needs.
Claude / @claudeai:
Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent at $2/1M input tokens and $10/1M output tokens, canceling its planned increase on September 1  —  We're making Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent. We launched Sonnet 5 in June at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through August 31, and that price will remain unchanged.
Julian Hast / Bloomberg:
OpenAI is hiring a power-trading lead to manage commodity hedging across its expanding data center power portfolio, as tech companies seek reliable electricity  —  OpenAI is hiring a power-trading lead to help manage the expanding energy needs of the electricity-intensive data centers running its artificial intelligence models.
Financial Times:
How India's IT services sector, which employs 6M people, contributes ~7% of GDP, and generates $300B+ annually, is shedding jobs as AI automates formulaic work  —  It was around 1.30am by the time Rakesh, a 45-year-old Oracle employee in the Indian technology hub of Bengaluru …
Anthropic:
Anthropic details an unreleased Claude model's attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis; it didn't solve it but “unexpectedly” made strides on a related problem  —  Recently, a member of staff at Anthropic gave Claude an unreasonable challenge.  It was about one of the most famous …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
SpaceX's earnings show X's Q2 ad revenue at $367M, down from Twitter's $1.08B in Q2 2022; Elon Musk said he would take X's annual ad revenue to $12B in 2027  —  When SpaceX filed for its IPO, we went through the S-1 to point out just how far off the mark Elon Musk's predictions about his Twitter takeover turned out to be.
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune:
River Markets, which gives professional traders a single place to trade across multiple prediction markets, raised an $8.5M seed led by Haun Ventures  —  Prediction markets are getting serious.  Once confined to casual betting, financial institutions now view them as valuable tools to hedge risks and trade on economic events.
OpenAI:
OpenAI unveils two Daybreak tiers: Daybreak Blue, which provides access to frontier models, and Daybreak Red, which offers purpose-trained cybersecurity models  —  Introducing new ways to unlock advanced cyber capabilities together with GPT-5.6-Cyber, our latest cybersecurity-specific model.
Sam Sabin / Axios:
OpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber, a more cyber-permissive GPT-5.6 Sol version, to some vetted partners, and expands how Daybreak program members can use its tools
Diana Novak Jones / Reuters:
A US appeals court allows ~2,400 federal lawsuits against social media companies to proceed over claims their products were designed to addict young users

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