China’s AI content labeling law takes effect, aligned with increased AI scrutiny, as concerns grow over misinformation, copyright infringement, and online fraud (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
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xAI sues a former employee in federal court in California for allegedly stealing Grok trade secrets and taking them to OpenAI, where he recently accepted a job (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
Blake Brittain / Reuters: xAI sues a former employee in federal court in California for allegedly stealing Grok trade secrets and taking them to OpenAI,
Anthropic reached a settlement in a copyright class action brought by authors whose works were included in two pirate databases Anthropic downloaded (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)
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Some lawyers and bankers say the Intel deal may face legal challenges as the CHIPS Act may not allow the US government to convert grants into equity (New York Times)
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A US judge sentences Noah Urban, a member of Scattered Spider, to 10 years in prison in connection with a string of major hacks and cryptocurrency thefts (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)
Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: A US judge sentences Noah Urban, a member of Scattered Spider, to 10 years in prison in connection with a string
NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sells real-world datasets like lab results and sports footage for AI training, raised a $25M Series A led by Footwork (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sells real-world datasets like lab results and sports footage for AI training, raised a $25M
Anthropic expands Claude's Learning Mode, available only to Education users since an April launch, to all users, including two learning variants for Claude Code (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Anthropic expands Claude’s Learning Mode, available only to Education users since an April launch, to all users, including two learning variants
President Trump says that he initially asked Nvidia for a 20% cut of H20 sales to China, but the number came down to 15% after Jensen Huang negotiated with him (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
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Ripple and the SEC agree to dismiss their court appeals, ending a lawsuit but leaving a judge's injunction on XRP sales to institutions and a $125M fine intact (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: Ripple and the SEC agree to dismiss their court appeals, ending a lawsuit but leaving a judge’s injunction on XRP sales
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller model can run locally on a consumer device with 16GB+ of RAM (Reece Rogers/Wired)
Reece Rogers / Wired: OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller model can run locally on a consumer device
