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AI
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and other publishers filed a federal lawsuit in California accusing Anthropic of a brazen campaign to torrent, scrape and download copyrighted works to train Claude.
Sources TechCrunch
Economy / Markets
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh used his first Jackson Hole symposium address to warn that the U.S. central bank will have more work to do if inflation does not move convincingly toward its 2% target.
Sources ReutersMarketScreener
Football
Chelsea beat Brighton 4-3 at Stamford Bridge in a frenetic seven-goal game that included a Cole Palmer strike and a stoppage-time Pascal Gross header. The result is Alonso's second consecutive Premier League win since taking charge, but a third straight game conceding three leaves defensive questions lingering ahead of the trip to Arsenal.
Sources Al JazeeraESPN
Economy / Markets
Amazon closed Friday up 3.97% at $266.43, adding roughly $110 billion in market value after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said AI growth had exceeded even its proponents' expectations.
Sources TS2
Technology
Bengaluru-based Gnani AI formally launched its end-to-end sovereign AI stack, Gnani Artha, built around the 30-billion-parameter Evon 3.3 large language model and the Plexus agentic platform.
AI
Two-year-old AI-native accounting platform Rillet raised a $100 million Series C led by ICONIQ Growth at a $1 billion valuation in under 48 hours after a routine board update.
Sources Startup Fortune
Football
England striker Ollie Watkins completed a £51 million transfer from Aston Villa to Saudi Pro League side Al-Hilal on a three-year contract, ending a six-year spell at Villa Park where he became the club's all-time Premier League top scorer with 91 goals.
Sources BBC SportSky Sports
Technology
Tencent published a 770-billion-parameter open-weights model as one of the highest-capacity openly licensed language systems yet released. The release is the latest signal that the open-source frontier is moving closer to the largest closed frontier models, with implications for hosted-API pricing and on-premises deployment.
Sources Startup Corners
AI
Instinct, an AI personal-assistant startup founded by 23-year-old Noah Shinn in April, raised a $250 million Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a $2.5 billion valuation.
Sources Pomegra Startups
Economy / Markets
PayPal closed Friday down 12.71% at $53.66 after Reuters reported that a consortium led by Stripe and private equity firm Advent ended its pursuit of the payments company.
Sources TS2
AI
U.S. chip-design startup Agentrys disclosed a $24.5 million combined seed and pre-seed round led by Etna Labs with MediaTek as the first strategic backer. The company says its agents have already produced a sign-off-clean 32-bit CPU layout from a written specification without human intervention.
Sources Pomegra Startups
Football
Serie A's second matchday closes with Atalanta v Bologna at 19:45 local time and Lecce v Roma at 17:30, both teams coming off opening-weekend victories. Roma arrived in Lecce on a six-match league winning streak after a 4-0 start under Gian Piero Gasperini, while Atalanta opened with a 2-1 win to set up an early-season test against Bologna.
Sources Sports MoleFootball Web Pages
AI
Keenable emerged from stealth with $26 million in seed funding led by Accel and a web search index purpose-built for autonomous AI agents rather than human readers.
Sources PulseAugur
Technology
Flova.ai, founded by former FaceU and ByteDance executive Guo Lie, raised more than $80 million from Sequoia Capital, IDG Capital and Yunji Capital to build an AI-native video production environment.
Sources Complete AI Training
Technology
Construction and mining equipment maker Caterpillar is exporting its experience running autonomous mining fleets into broader enterprise AI deployments. The move highlights how industrial automation know-how is being repositioned as a competitive asset in the race to put generative AI into production environments.
Sources TechCrunch