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August 29, 2026, 1:35 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.
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.
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  —  Meta Platforms Inc. is intensifying its public pressure campaign on TikTok and YouTube, running full-page advertisements …
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  —  Z.ai put the GLM-5.3 weights on Hugging Face, but dropped the MIT license.  Providers above $10 billion in revenue now need a security review.
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”  —  Andreessen Horowitz has launched a new “Machine Age” fund with $1.1 billion raised.  The firm's aim with the new fund is to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI.”
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 …
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  —  A detailed Grok Bot guide covering setup, persistent computers, skills, routines, templates, approvals, real use cases, limits, pricing, and alternatives.
Reuters:
CXMT sues the Pentagon over its Chinese military company designation, saying it isn't affiliated with the Chinese military and its chips aren't for military use  —  China's top memory chipmaker, ChangXin Memory Technologies (688825.SS), sued the Pentagon on Friday over being placed on a list …
More: Bloomberg
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  —  DLSS 5 mod spreads to Cyberpunk 2077, RDR2, TLOU2, Wukong and more  —  It took modders only hours to get the leaked NVIDIA DLSS …
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  —  The funding, led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, will help Owner develop AI agents for independent restaurants.  —  Rob Lehman (Owner president and COO) …
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  —  The next ARR growth engine after coding, the AI infra bubble, the Economics of open vs. closed source model Why is the AI semi buildout longer than the internet buildout?
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”  —  OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday …

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