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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 …
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
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 …
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 …
Bloomberg:
Intel raised $20B in an upsized share sale, up from the $15B it was targeting on Monday; sources say the sale drew $100B+ in demand; INTC is up 145%+ YTD  —  Making Sense of the Multibillion-Dollar Numbers of Nvidia Deal, Intel Share Sale  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Unmute
Financial Times:
Nvidia partners with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and others on a $500B funding package for AI infrastructure development
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B-parameter MoE model that it says offers up to 4x faster output, and agentic AI model router NeMo Switchyard  —  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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Financial Times:
Source: OpenAI's AI Ethics Lead Chloé Bakalar departs after less than a year, following exits by the head of safety systems and an ex-head of mission alignment  —  Chloé Bakalar's departure is one of several high-profile exits at the group in recent weeks as safety concerns mount
Julian Hast / Bloomberg:
OpenAI is hiring a power-trading lead to execute commodity hedging across its data center power portfolio, as tech companies seek a steady supply of 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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Steve Kopack / NBC News:
Trump Media reports a Q2 net loss of $238.1M, up from a net loss of $20M in Q2 2025, and says 10+ clients signed to pay up to $100K per month for its Truth API  —  The company's interim CEO said more than 10 customer agreements have already been signed for the Truth Social service that launched this month.
Bloomberg:
An NYC bill, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calls for Amazon, FedEx, and others to directly employ thousands of delivery workers; the bill could pass this fall  —  A New York City bill calls for the company to hire thousands of contract couriers.  Amazon says the proposal will make delivery pricier and slower.

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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: the US DOJ says states suing to block the WBD deal must post a “proper bond” to cover potential damages, backing Paramount's request for a $1.88B bond

Selome Hailu / Variety:
Nielsen: NBC's telecast of the Emmys drew 6.7M viewers on Monday night, down 9% from 2025's 7.4M on CBS, which was the awards show's best performance since 2021

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen: 60 Minutes' season premiere drew 7.94M viewers, down 21% from 10.02M for last season's premiere; viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 fell 33%

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Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
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