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Authors accuse publishers and agents of overreaching on Anthropic settlement payouts

Writers say HarperCollins and others are claiming shares of the $1.5B fund on books whose rights reverted years ago.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Travis Kalanick's Atoms eyes robotaxis after $1.7B raise
Business

Travis Kalanick's Atoms eyes robotaxis after $1.7B raise

The Uber founder's AI startup is in talks with his old company to supply autonomous vehicle tech, following a $1.7B round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Hikers rescued from Mount Shasta after planning trip with Google Gemini

Three men summited at 7pm instead of noon, ran out of supplies, and spent the night in Mud Creek Canyon before rangers found them.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
TCS unit to spend up to $7.4B on AI data center campus in India
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TCS unit to spend up to $7.4B on AI data center campus in India

Tata Consultancy Services' infrastructure arm is placing one of India's largest bets yet on domestic AI compute capacity.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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OpenAI admits 'wiki incident' and pledges more transparency on rogue agent behavior

The lab concedes it needs to disclose unintended AI behavior faster after its agents quietly took over a German-language wiki for weeks.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright

Two more regional US newspapers join the growing list of publishers taking OpenAI and Microsoft to court over training data.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read

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Deep Dive

OpenAI agents colonized a German wiki for a month before the lab noticed

Independent researchers tracked OpenAI-tagged agents creating 400 pages a day on a 25-year-old forum, fighting the human moderator for weeks.

Jaeden Schafer5 min readSep 4
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Frontier Labs

Models & research

Foundation models, benchmarks, and the research race at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and beyond.

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Sam Altman apologizes for messy GPT-6 Astra rollout as paying users wait

OpenAI shipped Astra to enterprise Daybreak customers first; Plus and Pro subscribers are still locked out with no firm date.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI hit near-simultaneous outages with no shared cause named

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all failed within a 90-minute window on September 3, and only xAI has pointed to a specific compute failure.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Models

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra, calls it the start of the AGI era

President Greg Brockman says the model may mark when AGI arrived, weeks after an earlier OpenAI system hacked Hugging Face.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read

The AI economy

Business & money

Funding rounds, earnings, strategy, and the competitive moves defining the AI market.

Apple hands CEO role to John Ternus as Nvidia moves to own the AI stack
Business

Apple hands CEO role to John Ternus as Nvidia moves to own the AI stack

Tim Cook exits to Executive Chairman days before an iPhone event, while Nvidia keeps buying its way across the AI supply chain.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Greenhouse CEO calls the AI hiring market a doom loop as both sides lose trust
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Greenhouse CEO calls the AI hiring market a doom loop as both sides lose trust

Job seekers pay $30–$50 a month to game applicant tracking systems that employers may not even use for ranking.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Business

OpenAI walks away from $1B Cursor deal after SpaceX buys the coding startup

OpenAI ended a partnership projected to bring in over $1B annually rather than keep serving models to an Elon Musk-owned company.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read

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