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Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Benjamin Mann, alleging tens of thousands of copyrighted songs were used to train Claude's LLMs (www.musicbusinessworldwide.com)
2026-8-30 Sony

Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says OpenAI represents just 5% of Cursor's traffic and Cursor trusted OpenAI to be “neutral”; Musk says he “couldn't care less” (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-30

The World's Busiest Spaceport Is About To Get a Lot Quieter, At Least For Now (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-29

New AI-powered video tools have accelerated the surge in AI dramas in China; DataEye: 89 of the top 100 animated dramas on Douyin in May were AI productions (www.ft.com)
2026-8-29 China AI

Trump Creates a Space Academy and Honors the Artemis Astronauts (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-29 Trump

Trade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians opposing data center projects, warning that blocking the projects endangers building-related jobs (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-29

An analysis of the 50 largest bitcoin treasury companies by BTC holdings finds their combined market cap has plunged from $150B in July 2025 to just $67B now (www.ft.com)
2026-8-29 Bitcoin

Minneapolis-based Yardstik, a provider of workforce monitoring tech, raised a $30M Series B led by Harbert Growth Partners, taking its total funding to $65M (siliconangle.com)
2026-8-29

SK Hynix breaks ground for its $4B advanced memory chip packaging facility in Indiana, with mass production of next-generation HBM scheduled to begin in H2 2029 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-29

Xiaomi and CXMT say the Xiaomi 18 Fold smartphone will debut CXMT's LPDDR6 DRAM chips, alongside Xiaomi's in-house 3nm Xring O3 SoC, launching in September (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-29 Xiaomi

Texas, which didn't join a multi-state case against Meta, negotiated a $1.05B side deal that could reach $1.335B if TikTok and YouTube adopt teen safety changes (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2026-8-29 YouTube Texas

Jio Platforms, which owns India's largest carrier and counts Meta and Google as investors, gets regulatory approval to float India's largest-ever IPO of ~$4B (www.thehindubusinessline.com)
2026-8-29 India Google IPO

Meituan reports Q2 revenue up 14.4% YoY to $15.62B and adjusted net profit of $372M, ending a three-quarter losing streak as the food delivery price war cooled (www.scmp.com)
2026-8-29

Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage? (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-29 China U.S.

OpenAI says it plans to stop providing its models to Cursor from November 12, as “we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our ToS” (openai.com)
2026-8-29 SpaceX

CXMT sues the Pentagon over its Chinese military company designation, saying it isn't affiliated with the Chinese military and its chips aren't for military use (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-29 China Pentagon

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott orders state agencies to pause funding for Flock cameras; an investigation found an agency allocating $30M+ to build Texas' Flock network (www.texastribune.org)
2026-8-29 Texas

Metriport, whose tools help doctors retrieve patient data, raised $26M in Series A and seed funding led by Matrix GP TJ Parker, taking its total raise to $28.4M (endpoints.news)
2026-8-29

Shares of French quantum computing company Pasqal closed up 95% in their Nasdaq debut on Friday following a merger with a SPAC (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-29 France Quantum

Z.ai releases GLM-5.3's weights under a new license requiring companies with $10B+ in revenue over 12 months to pass Z.ai's security review to host the model (thenewstack.io)
2026-8-29 AI

McKesson discloses breach after ShinyHunters claims patient data theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-29

An appeals court rules states can regulate prediction markets, finding Kalshi's sports event contracts are bets, not swaps, and subject to state gambling laws (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-29

New York City 911 System Missed 1,700 Calls Due To Software Update (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-29 New York

A deep dive into Grok Bot, including its architecture, use cases, and alternatives, as xAI adds shareable bot templates and online purchases through Stripe Link (flaviocopes.com)
2026-8-29

States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court Rules (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-29

Meta intensifies its pressure campaign on TikTok and YouTube, running full-page ads in US newspapers demanding they adopt comparable teen safety protections (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-29 YouTube

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 Other Companies Call For Action To Defend Against Rogue AI (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-29 Google AI

Modders get an experimental version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering library running in over a dozen games after it leaked in NBA 2K27's early access build (videocardz.com)
2026-8-29 Nvidia

Songs Created By AI Banned From Australia's Music Charts (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-8-29 Australia AI

Apple TV and Apple One Subscription Prices Increase By Up To 20% (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-29 Apple

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