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August 2, 2025, 2:40 AM
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Kylie Robison / Wired:
Anthropic revoked OpenAI's API access to Claude, citing ToS violations; sources: OpenAI's use of the API let it compare its models' behavior against Claude's  —  OpenAI lost access to the Claude API this week after Anthropic claimed the company was violating its terms of service.
Washington Post:
A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's role in a fatal 2019 crash in Florida, and orders the company to pay $243M in damages  —  The outcome is a stunning rebuke for Tesla, which for years has fought to absolve itself of responsibility when its technology is involved in a crash.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: in a rare companywide meeting, Tim Cook said the AI revolution is “ours to grab”, Apple's AI efforts will mirror its iPhone successes, and more  —  Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook, holding a rare all-hands meeting following earnings results …
Bloomberg:
Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon have collectively spent ~$90B on capex in their most recent quarters and are expected to spend over $344B for the year  —  If there's any lesson to take from the spending plans issued by the world's largest technology companies over the past two weeks …
Anthropic:
Anthropic details “persona vectors”, patterns of activity within an AI model's neural network that control its character traits, such as evil and sycophancy  —  Read the paper  —  Language models are strange beasts.  In many ways they appear to have human-like “personalities” …
The Information:
Source: GPT-5 improvements won't be comparable to the leaps in performance of earlier models, such as between GPT-3 in 2020 and GPT-4 in 2023  —  OpenAI made waves across the industry in December when it published the results from its tests of artificial intelligence that performs better …
New York Times:
Source: OpenAI raised $8.3B led by Dragoneer at a $300B valuation, months ahead of schedule and part of a $40B goal for 2025; 5M business users pay for ChatGPT  —  The venture capital round values the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, and underscores the fierceness of the A.I. money race.
Margaret Attridge / Courthouse News Service:
A US jury finds Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act when it intentionally recorded the health data of women via the period tracking app Flo  —  The jury got to decide how seriously Big Tech takes privacy, the attorney for a class of Flo users said in closing arguments.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Nintendo plans to raise the price of the original Switch “family of systems and products” and some Switch 2 accessories in the US; Switch 2's price won't change  —  The price hike will affect the family of original Switch systems, including the Lite and OLED.
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Nintendo Q1: revenue up 132% YoY to ~$3.8B, operating profit up 4.4% to ~$378M; it sold 5.82M Switch 2 units in the first month, more than double the original
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, its most advanced reasoning model, which considers multiple ideas simultaneously, to its $250/month Ultra subscription  —  Google DeepMind is rolling out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, which, the company says, is its most advanced AI reasoning model …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Reddit wants to become “a go-to search engine” for users; its core search has 70M+ weekly active unique users and its AI tool Reddit Answers has 6M weekly users  —  CEO Steve Huffman says the company is focused on making the platform a ‘go-to search engine.’
Daniel Kim / Cerebras:
Cerebras announces the $50/month Code Pro and the $200/month Code Max plans, offering users access to Qwen3-Coder at speeds of up to 2,000 tokens per second  —  We are launching two new plans designed to make AI coding faster and more accessible: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month) and Code Max ($200/month).
Google:
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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google says it will preserve “actively used” goo.gl URLs, after announcing earlier that all existing goo.gl links would stop working in August 2025  —  After originally planning to have all goo.gl URLs stop working later this month, Google will now “preserve actively used links.”
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Instagram now requires users to have a public account with 1,000+ followers to go live, aligning with TikTok; previously, the feature was open to all users  —  Instagram users now need a public account with a minimum of 1,000 followers to go live on the platform, the social network confirmed to TechCrunch.

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Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:
CB Insights: Figma's IPO was the largest venture-backed IPO by market capitalization for a US tech company since Rivian's debut in November 2021Find
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Bloomberg:
Analysis: since April 2, President Trump has excluded over $100B in US smartphone and laptop imports from tariffs, highlighting conflicting administration goalsFind
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@semianalysis_:
Microsoft's latest 10-K shows that the company's committed datacenter construction is down YoY, with almost no new leases signed in the past 12 monthsFind
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Maximilian Henning / Euractiv:
Signatories to the EU's voluntary AI Code of Practice include Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, while Chinese AI companies remain absentFind
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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Manus unveils Wide Research, an experimental feature that lets users on its Pro plan enlist dozens of parallelized AI agents for large-scale, high-volume tasksFind
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Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Roblox's average DAUs grew 41% YoY to 111.8M in Q2 and hours engaged rose 58% YoY to 27.4B, driven by the success of tycoon-style farming game Grow a GardenFind
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Anthropic:
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CPB:
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announces that it is shutting down following the loss of federal funding

The Hollywood Reporter:
Shirley Halperin, THR's co-EIC, is departing to become the co-EIC of Rolling Stone alongside Sean Woods, becoming the first woman to lead the brand

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Block Communications enters into an agreement to sell its entire portfolio of TV stations to Gray Media for $80M; the deal is expected to close in Q4 2025

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BBC:
In the UK, X and Reddit are blocking wide-ranging content, including about parliamentary debates, Ukraine, and Gaza, to comply with the Online Safety Act

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James Hunt / The Block:
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority plans to allow retail investors to access crypto exchange-traded notes, dubbed cETNs, on FCA-approved, UK-based exchanges
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft plans to end support for Windows 11 SE in 2026, five years after launching the OS for low-cost laptops designed to compete with Google Chromebooks
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
OpenAI removes a ChatGPT feature that let users make their conversations discoverable by Google and other search engines, calling it a “short-lived experiment”
Apple:
Apple Q3: iPhone up 13% YoY to $44.58B, vs. $40.22B est., Mac up 15% to $8.05B, iPad down 8% to $6.58B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 9% to $7.4B
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