LiteLLM Supply Chain Attack Exposes Credentials of 2,500 Organizations
In a single 40-minute window in March, access keys from Microsoft, Amazon, Samsung and others leaked out
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Business
Funding, M&A, earnings, talent moves and regulation
White House weighs bringing open models under AI oversight
Frontier-level open models could face mandatory pre-release testing; "official partner" status for major AI labs also under discussion
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Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, Andrew Ng clash on stage over AI openness
At the Ai4 conference, three giants of the field offered differing takes on the risks of open-weight models and concerns over gatekeeping
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Users push back on Claude's watermark: "It'll expose cheating"
Some users have vented frustration over the invisible watermark Anthropic added to comply with EU regulations
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Google Co-founder Brin Reportedly Pushing DeepMind Toward Self-Improving AI
According to a Reuters report, Sergey Brin is said to be pushing DeepMind's resources toward AI that advances itself without human intervention
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Twitch to allow AI training on creator video by default, opt-out only
Amazon subsidiary Twitch will use streamer content for AI training, putting the burden on creators to opt out
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DeepSeek Forms Harness Team, Takes Aim at Claude Code
Company opens official WeChat account and starts hiring for AI agent development
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OpenAI Investor Thrive Holdings Raises $2 Billion at $12 Billion Valuation
With participation from SoftBank and others, Thrive expands into permitting for physical infrastructure
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Guitar Parts Maker D'Addario Finally Admits Using AI Music in Promo Video
After denying for two weeks, D'Addario corrects itself, says track was made with generative AI tool Suno
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Mistral Forms Compute Coalition for European AI Sovereignty, Opens Platform to Outside Models
After securing long-term compute and offering regional inference choice, Mistral now adds Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 to its platform
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Together AI, IBM, and NVIDIA Build B300 Cluster on IBM Cloud
IBM Cloud's first dedicated B300 cluster combined with Spectrum-X networking unveiled as inference infrastructure
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Replit and Google Cloud Team Up for "Cinema-Themed" Hackathon to Rally Agent Developers
Joint hackathon "The Blockbuster Hackathon" built around an Agentic Cinema theme, aimed at building enterprise workflow automation agents
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Meta, Google, NVIDIA go open source; OpenAI stays closed — strategies diverge
The gap between companies that sell hardware and companies that profit from APIs over open-source strategy has become a talking point in the community
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US House Members Say AI "Escaped Test Environment and Hacked" — Send Letters to Altman and Amodei
Letters cite GPT-5.6 Sol's intrusion into Hugging Face and three undetected incidents at Anthropic, demand log disclosure and a hearing — response deadline August 24
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NVIDIA to Guarantee Up to 25% of Its Own Chips' Value, Raising $500 Billion
Deal with six firms including Goldman Sachs, BlackRock to secure AI infrastructure funding; Bernstein and others warn of depreciation risk
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Gemini App Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly Users
CEO Sundar Pichai announced on X that Gemini became the 14th Google product to reach the milestone
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OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap departs after four years
Lightcap, a longtime associate of Sam Altman, leaves OpenAI as it prepares for an IPO to start something new
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Anthropic IPO: investors grill company on Chinese AI first
Anthropic is pushing for a September-October listing, but Chinese rival models and data center backlash have emerged as key variables
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Anthropic Signs $9.1 Billion Data Center Deal With Bitcoin Miner
Deal secures 191 megawatts at Riot Platforms' Texas site, could grow to $16.1 billion with extensions
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OpenAI Adds $125/Month Premium Seat to ChatGPT Business
Five times the standard fee, as agentic tasks burn more tokens and strain flat-rate plans
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Spotify to Label AI Artist Profiles as "AI Persona"
Starting mid-September, labeled profiles will be automatically excluded from recommendations, visible only to those who follow them
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Databricks compresses agent infrastructure into a single database
CLA case study shows AI agents run on Lakebase Postgres instead of separate queues, schedulers, and caches
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Zuckerberg's 6,500-word AI manifesto only deepened public distrust
TechCrunch pushes back on Meta CEO's "personal superintelligence" essay
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Anthropic makes Sonnet 5 launch pricing permanent, no August 31 hike
The $2 per million input tokens and $10 output rate set at the June launch will stay in place
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