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California AG Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face hack in July, after more than a dozen states joined Alabama in its investigation (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)
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Filing: AI training data startup Micro1 offers to pay $12.5M for Spirit Airlines' data; the offer faces hurdles as Spirit already has a $10M deal with Google (Jonathan Randles/Bloomberg)
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Anthropic says Claude worked "largely autonomously" over 11 days to formalize the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean programming language (Anthropic)
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Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks to raise as much as $3.5B in financing, including $2B from Nvidia, ahead of a planned IPO (Bloomberg)
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OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Business Standard and Premium users in ChatGPT Work and Codex and in the API (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
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Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as it grappled with the Hugging Face fallout (Robert Hart/The Verge)
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OpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoning and admits covert sandbagging would likely go uncaught, yet still calls it the world's most aligned model (Celia Ford/Transformer)
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A profile of John Ternus, the first product engineer to lead Apple; sources: Cook considered how to execute the perfect succession since his early days as CEO (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
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An interview with Sonos CEO Tom Conrad on the Sonos 27 platform, AI assistants, its Google relationship, speakers as a home computer mesh network, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
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Review: GPT-6 Astra can adeptly use tools like Unreal Engine to build complex environments, such as a civilization with Unreal's autonomous MetaHuman characters (Matt Shumer/Something Big Is Happening)
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Sources: Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 is exploring selling a majority stake to US companies, hoping to safeguard access to advanced AI chips beyond April 2027 (Bloomberg)
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PUBG developer Krafton plans to invest $250M in India over three to four years, for a total investment of $500M+ since 2021, as it expands into AI and robotics (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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By declaring that GPT-6 Astra has ushered in the AGI era, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
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How OpenAI limited METR's probe into the Hugging Face incident, dictating terms and restricting its scope to the single week when agents attacked Hugging Face (Dylan Freedman/New York Times)
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What to expect from Apple's September 9 "Surprise and Shine" event: a foldable iPhone, an iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, Apple Watches with ceramic cases, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)