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Anthropic Sued By Sony, Warner For Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Songs, Torrenting Copyrighted Works
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What's 88-year-old Ridley Scott Doing Now?
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With the Snip of a Gene, Scientists Hope To Erase High Cholesterol For Life
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Millions of Cars Recalled Over Danger of Bursting Into Flames. But They're Not EVs.
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Chatbot Conversations Can Become Evidence in Court
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The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release
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'Grand Theft Auto 6' Preview Signals Blockbuster Demand, Analysts Say
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As Backlash Grows, More Americans Now Oppose Automated Police License Plate Readers Than Support
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Xylitol Linked To Strokes and Heart Attacks, Study Finds
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The World's Busiest Spaceport Is About To Get a Lot Quieter, At Least For Now
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Trump Creates a Space Academy and Honors the Artemis Astronauts
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Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage?
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New York City 911 System Missed 1,700 Calls Due To Software Update
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States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court Rules
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 Other Companies Call For Action To Defend Against Rogue AI
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Data center development is driving demand for acoustic consultants, as developers and neighboring communities hire acousticians to assess noise emissions (Sheena Meng/Bloomberg)
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Job listings and other indicators: SpaceX is working on a Bastrop, TX foundry to build blades for large gas turbines, which could ease its AI power crunch (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)
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Anthropic will "permanently" raise weekly Claude Code limits by 25% on Sept. 14 for most plans, which will work out a 17% reduction, given the current 50% boost (@claudedevs)
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Sources detail how Meta's $17.1B settlement with state AGs came together as Meta wanted to avoid going to trial following losses in cases in LA and New Mexico (New York Times)
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Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Benjamin Mann, alleging tens of thousands of copyrighted songs were used to train Claude's LLMs (Tim Ingham/Music Business Worldwide)
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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" (Amir Efrati/The Information)
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New AI-powered video tools have accelerated the surge in AI dramas in China; DataEye: 89 of the top 100 animated dramas on Douyin in May were AI productions (Financial Times)
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Trade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians opposing data center projects, warning that blocking the projects endangers building-related jobs (Wall Street Journal)
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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 (Financial Times)
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Minneapolis-based Yardstik, a provider of workforce monitoring tech, raised a $30M Series B led by Harbert Growth Partners, taking its total funding to $65M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
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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 (Bloomberg)
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Xiaomi and CXMT say the Xiaomi 18 Fold smartphone will debut CXMT's LPDDR6 DRAM chips, alongside Xiaomi's in-house 3nm Xring O3 SoC, launching in September (Summer Zhen/Reuters)
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Texas, which didn't join a multi-state case against Meta, negotiated a $1.05B side deal that could reach $1.335B if TikTok and YouTube adopt teen safety changes (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law)
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Meituan reports Q2 revenue up 14.4% YoY to $15.62B and adjusted net profit of $372M, ending a three-quarter losing streak as the food delivery price war cooled (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
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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 (Vallari Sanzgiri/The Hindu BusinessLine)