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August 29, 2026, 11:05 AM
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OpenAI:
OpenAI says it plans to stop providing its models to Cursor from November 12, as “we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our ToS”  —  Today, we notified SpaceX that we intend to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026.
Amir Efrati / The Information:
Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says OpenAI represents just 5% of Cursor's traffic and Cursor trusted OpenAI to be “neutral”; Musk says he “couldn't care less”  —  OpenAI said Friday night that it will terminate its contract to provide its AI models …
Wall Street Journal:
Trade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians opposing data center projects, warning that blocking the projects endangers building-related jobs  —  Trade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians, joining the building backlash  —  Much of the public outcry …
Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
Meta intensifies its pressure campaign on TikTok and YouTube, running full-page ads in US newspapers demanding they adopt comparable teen safety protections
Lauren McCarthy / New York Times:
An appeals court rules states can regulate prediction markets, finding Kalshi's sports event contracts are bets, not swaps, and subject to state gambling laws  —  The outcome contradicted an earlier appeals court decision.  Federal regulators said the split rulings called for resolution by the Supreme Court.
Bloomberg:
SK Hynix breaks ground for its $4B advanced memory chip packaging facility in Indiana, with mass production of next-generation HBM scheduled to begin in H2 2029  —  SK Hynix Inc. held a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday for its advanced memory packaging facility in Indiana …
Financial Times:
An analysis of the 50 largest bitcoin treasury companies by BTC holdings finds their combined market cap has plunged from $150B in July 2025 to just $67B now  —  Crypto hoarders have been selling tokens and reverting to former activities  —  More than $80bn has been wiped off the value …
More: CryptoSlate.  X: @gtalevi and @davidburton1971
LinkedIn: Adam Morgan McCarthy and Miller Cole.  Bluesky: @jessefelder.com.  Forums: r/Bitcoin
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack:
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3's weights under a new license requiring companies with $10B+ in revenue over 12 months to pass Z.ai's security review to host the model  —  Earlier in August, Z.ai, the Chinese AI lab behind the viral ox-alpha model that turned out to be GLM-5.3-Flash, launched its flagship GLM-5.3 model.
Vallari Sanzgiri / The Hindu BusinessLine:
Jio Platforms, which owns India's largest carrier and counts Meta and Google as investors, gets regulatory approval to float India's largest-ever IPO of ~$4B  —  Debt repayment, strong cash flows underpin investor optimism around Jio IPO  —  Reliance Industries' digital arm Jio Platforms …
Ayden Runnels / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott orders state agencies to pause funding for Flock cameras; an investigation found an agency allocating $30M+ to build Texas' Flock network  —  The order came as The Texas Tribune was preparing to publish an investigation detailing how a state agency has devoted …

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From Mediagazer

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The firings of three Stars and Stripes journalists are on hold until September 4, when a judge set an injunction hearing to pause the firings during litigation

Jem Bartholomew / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Tom Rosenstiel's idea that journalists should “run toward” AI to improve journalism, using it to collect and analyze data, find false claims, and more

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
California lawmakers unveil a bill that changes state film and TV production tax credits to soften the impact of a new tax credit cap set on corporations

More News

Flavio Copes:
A deep dive into Grok Bot, including its architecture, use cases, and alternatives, as xAI adds shareable bot templates and online purchases through Stripe Link
VideoCardz.com:
Modders get an experimental version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering library running in over a dozen games after it leaked in NBA 2K27's early access build
Joe Guszkowski / Restaurant Business:
Owner, which makes AI agents that manage restaurants' websites, marketing, and other functions, raised a $240M Series D at a $2.3B valuation

Earlier Picks

Fin / @fi56622380:
Unlike internet's one-dimensional, flat-fee growth, AI grows across two exponentials, user penetration and tokens per user, allowing AI labs' economics to work
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
a16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI”
Jack Queen / Reuters:
A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was “illegal and baseless”
Sam Sabin / Axios:
OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action”
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