Apple Claims OpenAI Destroyed Key Evidence
September 01, 2026: Apple Claims OpenAI Destroyed Key Evidence - Apple is seeking expedited discovery in its legal battle against OpenAI, alleging the company has been actively destroying evidence. The tech giant filed a motion Monday pushing for faster access to materials. Central to Apple's concerns is a MacBook belonging to a former employee, which OpenAI all...
Apple Finds Shocking Evidence Against OpenAI Employee
September 01, 2026: Apple Finds Shocking Evidence Against OpenAI Employee - Apple has filed what it calls shocking evidence in its lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging former employee Chang Liu used confidential Apple circuit schematics in his OpenAI work. Apple also claims Liu enlisted a colleague to destroy evidence after learning he was under investigation, and that OpenAI w...
Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5.1, Signs $35B Deal
September 01, 2026: Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5.1, Signs $35B Deal - Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, its most capable AI models yet, setting records on multiple benchmarks including a 52.6% score on Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, more than double its predecessor. Fable 5.1 is generally available and runs 25% more cost-efficiently, while th...
Google Courts Hollywood With AI Licensing Cash
September 01, 2026: Google Courts Hollywood With AI Licensing Cash - Google is reportedly seeking licensing deals with major Hollywood studios, offering large payments in exchange for permission to train its AI models on copyrighted content. The arrangement would boost Google's competitive edge in the AI race while providing studios a significant financial windfall. ...
CrowdStrike Launches AI Security Models With Nvidia
September 01, 2026: CrowdStrike Launches AI Security Models With Nvidia - CrowdStrike unveiled SafeMind, a family of security-focused AI models built with Nvidia on the Nemotron architecture, trained on 15 years of incident response data and Falcon sensor telemetry. Two models anchor the system: Red Tempest simulates AI-driven attacks while Blue Solano handles defense, ru...
ChatGPT Now Imports Patient Data via Epic
September 01, 2026: ChatGPT Now Imports Patient Data via Epic - OpenAI is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic's electronic health record system, covering over 325 million patients, allowing clinicians to import and query patient data including appointment notes, lab results, and medications. In some deployments, ChatGPT will work directly within EHR workflows, ...
Google Gives Students Free Gemini AI For A Year
September 01, 2026: Google Gives Students Free Gemini AI For A Year - Google is offering students a free 12-month Gemini subscription through a global promotion running until 31 December 2026. US students receive the advanced Gemini Pro plan, while those in Australia and other international markets get Gemini Plus, which normally costs around A$8.10 per month. To cla...
Debian Allows AI Tools in Linux Development
August 31, 2026: Debian Allows AI Tools in Linux Development - Debian has voted to permit developers to use AI tools in the development, maintenance, and documentation of its Linux distribution. The new policy frames responsible AI use as a productivity booster. Rather than imposing special restrictions or exemptions, Debian's policy states that generative AI ...
OpenAI Ad Business Hits $1B Revenue Milestone
August 31, 2026: OpenAI Ad Business Hits $1B Revenue Milestone - OpenAI announced its advertising business, launched roughly 200 days ago within ChatGPT, has crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue. The company is expanding ads to over 40 new countries and targeting $2.5 billion in ad revenue by year-end, with total annualized revenue projected to exceed $40 bil...
Pentagon Deploys ChatGPT and Grok for 3 Million Personnel
August 31, 2026: Pentagon Deploys ChatGPT and Grok for 3 Million Personnel - The Pentagon has launched military-tailored versions of ChatGPT and Grok through its secure GenAI.mil portal, giving 3 million civilian and military personnel access to commercial AI tools without exposing sensitive data through consumer channels. Over 1.7 million users have already onboarded since ...
CrowdStrike Launches AI Agents, Expands Cloud Reach
August 31, 2026: CrowdStrike Launches AI Agents, Expands Cloud Reach - CrowdStrike unveiled Falcon IQ at its Fal.Con 2026 conference, replacing manual security assessments with over 50 AI agents built on Nvidia's Open Nemotron models. The tool automates assessment, prioritization, and remediation within its Project QuiltWorks coalition, which gained 12 new data sources...
ServiceNow Beats Salesforce in AI Race
August 31, 2026: ServiceNow Beats Salesforce in AI Race - ServiceNow posted 24% revenue growth with AI ACV crossing $1 billion, while Salesforce grew 11% with Agentforce ARR at $1.5 billion. ServiceNow's NVIDIA partnership on Project Arc and its cross-platform system of action give it a structural edge in agentic AI. Salesforce trades at a cheaper forward...
Nvidia Drops $3.5B on MediaTek AI Partnership
August 31, 2026: Nvidia Drops $3.5B on MediaTek AI Partnership - Nvidia has purchased $3.5 billion in MediaTek convertible bonds as part of an expanded partnership covering AI chips, personal computing, and automotive technology. The deal follows Nvidia's $2 billion investment in Marvell Technologies earlier this year. Key collaboration areas include MediaTek of...
Workday Embeds AI Agents Into Enterprise Workflows
August 31, 2026: Workday Embeds AI Agents Into Enterprise Workflows - Workday CTO Gabe Monroy says the next generation of enterprise AI must combine the probabilistic reasoning of AI systems with the deterministic guarantees of ERP platforms. Speaking during a Google Cloud event, he demonstrated how Workday and Google Cloud are embedding AI agents directly into Google...
EU Tightens Rules on ChatGPT Under DSA
August 31, 2026: EU Tightens Rules on ChatGPT Under DSA - ChatGPT has been classified as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the EU's Digital Services Act, subjecting OpenAI to stricter regulatory oversight. The company must now take steps to mitigate risks related to minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content within the European Uni...
Nvidia's $3.5B MediaTek Deal Fights Custom AI Chips
August 31, 2026: Nvidia's $3.5B MediaTek Deal Fights Custom AI Chips - Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion in Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek, granting it access to NVLink Fusion technology so it can design custom AI chips that integrate seamlessly into Nvidia-powered data centers. The move comes as major cloud providers and AI companies increasingly build their own chips to...
Nvidia, Mythos, CrowdStrike Reshape AI Landscape
August 31, 2026: Nvidia, Mythos, CrowdStrike Reshape AI Landscape - Nvidia posted another record quarter, announcing a $12.9 billion Hugging Face acquisition, a Perplexity investment, and an expanded Cisco partnership building rack-scale AI factories. Analysts say Nvidia's story has grown far beyond GPUs, now encompassing AI infrastructure, inference, agents, roboti...
Broadcom Bets Private Cloud Can Run Production AI
August 31, 2026: Broadcom Bets Private Cloud Can Run Production AI - Enterprises moving AI from pilot to production are demanding turnkey solutions rather than self-assembled stacks. Broadcom's Prashanth Shenoy says VMware Cloud Foundation can serve as that unified platform, running AI agents and models on the same infrastructure already used for VMs and containers, ...
5 Real Ways ChatGPT Work Saves Small Business Time
August 31, 2026: 5 Real Ways ChatGPT Work Saves Small Business Time - Senior Contributing Editor David Gewirtz shares five practical ways he uses ChatGPT Work in his small business, covering tasks like scanning Gmail for email history, converting raw data into PowerPoint slides, and flagging problematic loan terms. He notes the AI handles complex multi-step tasks well...
Sony, Warner Sue Anthropic Over AI Copyright Theft
August 29, 2026: Sony, Warner Sue Anthropic Over AI Copyright Theft - Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and other major music publishers have sued Anthropic and two of its co-founders, accusing the AI company of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works to train its Claude AI model. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the...
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