Techmeme
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Owner of 1.5M-page site PatronView on a year of fighting scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human page loads, 35K Claude crawls per referred user, Amazon bot referred none (Nick Gray/PatronView)
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Singapore raises its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 4.5%-5.5% from 2%-4%, citing stronger-than-expected global AI investment and improved external demand (Bloomberg)
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Anthropic says Claude models in the EU will now add invisible watermarks to generated text and C2PA metadata to generated files, to comply with the EU AI Act (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
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Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI (Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: investor interest in Situational Awareness surged after it nearly blew up on leveraged positions; the fund says it's not accepting new capital for now (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
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Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year, $9.1B compute deal with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at a Rockdale, TX campus; RIOT jumps ~25% after hours (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
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How a clause in Elon Musk's Tesla pay package, worth up to ~$1T, could provide him a shortcut around lofty performance targets if Tesla merged with SpaceX (Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: Apple remains on track for a glass-centric design overhaul of iPhone Pro's line for 2027, countering rumors that led Jefferies to downgrade AAPL (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Trump Media reports a Q2 net loss of $238.1M, vs. a net loss of $20M in Q2 2025, and says 10+ clients are paying up to $100K per month for its Truth API (Steve Kopack/NBC News)
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SpaceX's earnings show X's Q2 ad revenue at $367M, down from $1.08B at Twitter in Q2 2022; Musk once said he would take its annual ad revenue to $12B in 2027 (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
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Source: OpenAI head of ethics Chloé Bakalar departs after less than a year, following exits by the head of safety systems and a former head of mission alignment (Financial Times)
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Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent at $2/1M input tokens and $10/1M output tokens, canceling a planned September 1 increase (Claude/@claudeai)
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With his long essay, Zuckerberg returns to his "open" AI arguments at an opportune time, as Chinese open models narrow the performance gap at much lower cost (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
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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 (Bloomberg)
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Source: Applied Compute, which helps companies customize models with their data, is in talks to raise "hundreds of millions" led by Elad Gil at a ~$3B valuation (The Information)