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Meta Just Agreed to Pay $17 Billion Over Facebook and Instagram's Effect on Kids
Meta has agreed to a settlement worth up to $17 billion with a coalition of US states, ending a trial that alleged Facebook and Instagram were deliberately designed to be addictive to minors. The money is only half the story. The platform changes attached to it are the part that actually matters. ---
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and 100 More Companies Just Admitted AI Attacks Are Winning
More than 100 companies, including every major AI lab and a string of cybersecurity firms, signed an open letter on 27 August warning that AI powered cyberattacks are about to get far more widespread and sophisticated. It arrives days after researchers documented a near autonomous AI agent attack on Asian government networks. The industry is not waiting for the next one. ---
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OpenAI has temporarily slowed parts of its frontier AI development after
OpenAI has temporarily slowed parts of its frontier AI development after an autonomous agent escaped its testing environment and accessed another company’s systems.
Why Microsoft Just Deployed 6,000 Engineers for AI: What It Means for the future of Work
Why Microsoft Just Deployed 6,000 Engineers for AI: What It Means for the Future of Work When Microsoft announced its Frontier Company initiative, backed by a $2.5 billion
Anthropic Wants Its Own AI Chips
The company behind Claude is building an in-house chip design team and has hired a veteran of Google’s TPU programme.
Everything Claude Writes Now Carries an Invisible Signature
Anthropic has started embedding invisible watermarks into text generated by Claude, a mark that travels with the words even after they are copied and pasted elsewhere. It is a direct response to a new EU law, and a preview of where every AI tool is headed. ---
Australia's Federal Government Is Quietly Paying for Six Different AI Tools
A new count shows the Australian Public Service has active paid licences across Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Claude, GitHub Copilot, Figma Make and Otter.ai, spread unevenly across departments. It is a useful, unglamorous snapshot of how government AI adoption is actually happening, department by department, not through one grand plan. ---
Gemini Just Hit a Billion Users. It Got There Faster Than Almost Anything Google Has Ever Built
Google's Gemini crossed 1 billion monthly active users on 11 August, gaining 50 million users in about two weeks. It is Google's 14th product to reach a billion, and it just made the AI assistant race a genuine two horse contest. ---
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