Monday, Aug 31, 2026
Anthropic Will Pay $1.5 Billion Over Pirated Books. The Ruling Behind It Favors the Whole AI Industry
A federal judge gave final approval Monday to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with a class of authors and publishers who…
Mexico Taxed Chinese Cars at 50%. Chinese Car Sales Went Up Anyway.
Mexican sales of Chinese-brand vehicles jumped nearly 30% in the first half of the year, according to a sales report…
Tennessee Says Meta Built Instagram to Be Addictive. A Jury Starts Deciding Monday
Meta goes to trial in Nashville this week over Tennessee's claim that Instagram was deliberately designed to drive compulsive use…
Ryanair’s Profit Fell 34%. The Airline Blames a War It Has No Control Over
Ryanair reported first-quarter profit after tax of €538 million for the three months through June, down 34% from €820 million…
A Nonprofit Wants to Build a Free, Open Alternative to Every Major AI Model. It’s Starting With Languages Big Tech Ignores
Current AI, a nonprofit founded in February 2025, is trying to build public AI infrastructure that functions the way the…
Jensen Huang Spent Two Days in Tokyo. He Left With Deals Covering Japan’s Entire Industrial Base
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spent July 15 and 16 in Tokyo courting Japan's industrial and chip-supply elite, following a Taiwan…
China Just Released the Biggest Open AI Model Ever Built. It Beats Some U.S. Models Outright
Beijing-based Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on Thursday, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source model the company says is now the largest open-weight…
OpenAI’s First Hardware Product Is a $230 Keyboard. It’s Also Selling a $70 Basketball.
OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week, a $230 mini keyboard billed as a "command center for agentic…
NotebookLM Is Dead. Long Live Gemini Notebook.
Google is renaming NotebookLM, its AI-powered research and note-taking tool, to Gemini Notebook, continuing a pattern of folding independently branded…
X Says It Caught 1.5 Million Stolen Posts. It’s Sending the Money Back.
X is toughening its stance against creators who steal content and solicit engagement to abuse the platform's revenue-sharing program, according…
A Waymo Traffic Jam Trapped San Francisco for Hours. The Mayor Wants New Rules Before It Happens Again
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who once championed the city as a testbed for emerging technology, has formally asked California's…
Uber Just Bought Its Way to the Top of Global Food Delivery. Here’s Who It Passed.
Uber will buy Delivery Hero in a deal valuing the German firm at $14.8 billion, creating the largest food-delivery group…
Hackers Posed as Tech Support to Steal Data From 365,000 Customers. Italy Just Fined the Carrier €1.7 Million
Italy's data protection authority fined telecoms operator WINDTRE €1.7 million, roughly $1.94 million, for what it called "serious shortcomings" in…
Oracle Is Spending Like a Hyperscaler. Its Credit Rating Says It Can’t Actually Afford To.
Oracle is burning through cash faster than it generates it, in the middle of a $250 billion data-center expansion, and…
You Can Now Bet on Whether a Cancer Drug Gets FDA Approval. Kalshi Just Made That Legal.
Kalshi will begin taking bets on the outcomes of clinical trials and FDA regulatory decisions, the prediction-market platform said Thursday,…