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AI
OpenAI said on Friday it will wind down its contract supplying AI models to the coding assistant Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026, after Elon Musk's SpaceX closed a roughly $60 billion all-stock acquisition of the company.
Economy / Markets
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh used his first Jackson Hole symposium address on Friday to argue that short-term rates remain the Fed's 'predominant tool' and that he would be 'hard pressed to describe broad financial conditions as restrictive,' pushing two-year Treasury yields up 13 basis points to roughly 4.35% and lifting the implied odds of a September rate hike to about 58% from 35% the prior day.
Technology
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin ruled Thursday evening that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk was unlawful First Amendment retaliation and arbitrary and capricious under the Fifth, handing the AI company its first court win.
Sources TechCrunchCourt Listener (Anthropic v. US Department of War)
Economy / Markets
Nvidia reported second-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of $96.2 billion on Wednesday, up 18% from the previous quarter and 106% from a year earlier, with Data Center revenue rising 117% to $89.0 billion and both GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins holding at 75.0%.
AI
Beijing-based Z.ai (Zhipu) has open-sourced GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with 18 billion active parameters, released under the MIT license and priced at roughly $0.15 per million input tokens.
Sources Z.aiSiliconANGLETechNode
Football
Tottenham are pointless from their opening two Premier League games after a 0-2 home loss to Newcastle United on Friday, with Anthony Elanga finishing off debutant Gonzalez's knockdown in the second half and Yoane Wissa adding an improvised second to leave Spurs bottom of the table on goal difference.
Sources ESPN
AI
Anthropic has published an Automated Alignment Researcher paper led by fellow Chen Yueh-Han showing that AI systems can improve a model's performance across ten misaligned-behavior benchmarks without degrading overall capability.
Sources AnthropicTechCrunch
Technology
Amazon has agreed to acquire DuckLabs, the company behind the popular open-source columnar database DuckDB, with founders Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt and the rest of the team joining AWS in early September once the deal closes.
Technology
Starcloud has raised a $250 million Series A round backed by Nvidia to build a network of orbital data centers, joining SpaceX's separately filed Starmind plan to put up to a million data-center satellites in orbit.
Sources GeekWire
Football
Bayern Munich began their pursuit of a third straight Bundesliga title under Vincent Kompany with a 5-1 home win over VfB Stuttgart on Friday, capping a domestic double after last term's DFB-Pokal final victory over the same opponent.
Sources ESPN Singapore
AI
OpenAI has named Dave Dugan, who stepped down earlier this month as Meta's vice president of global clients and agencies, as its new vice president of global ad solutions reporting to COO Brad Lightcap.
Sources The Wall Street Journal
Technology
Chinese automakers including Xpeng, BYD and others are doubling down on humanoid robotics, a strategic pivot that mirrors Tesla's Optimus program and reflects a broader hope that robots — not cars — will be the long-tail revenue line for the world's largest auto industry.
Sources TechCrunch
Football
Juventus made it two straight Serie A wins to open the season with a 2-0 home victory over Parma at the Allianz Stadium on Sunday, breaking through a goalless first half with a 62nd-minute rebound strike from substitute Nicolas Gonzalez and Teun Koopmeiners' first appearance off the bench to curl in a late second.
Sources 7msport (via Goal)
AI
ChangXin Memory Technologies, China's largest DRAM maker whose chips go into smartphones, PCs, servers and AI systems, filed a federal lawsuit in Washington on Friday seeking to overturn its designation as a Chinese military company, arguing the listing was arbitrary and lacked evidentiary support.
Economy / Markets
Marvell Technology fell 10.3% in Friday trading even as CEO Matt Murphy told investors the company's AI-related business is 'robust' and raised forecasts for upcoming revenue growth, with revenue and income for the quarter edging past analyst expectations.