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Judge Vacates Pentagon’s Anthropic AI Vendor Blacklist
A federal judge found unlawful retaliation, vacated the Pentagon’s supply-chain designation and permanently blocked enforcement of the contractor ban.
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Amazon Adds 2 Million Nvidia GPUs to AWS AI Buildout
The cloud provider will deploy Blackwell and Rubin chips in 2027 and 2028 as the companies extend their alliance across the AI stack.
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Target Pulls Offensive Halloween Costume as Shares Fall
The retailer removed an offensive children’s costume and apologized as its shares fell 3.8%, reviving questions about merchandising controls during a turnaround.
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Zillow, Redfin Settle FTC Rental Listings Antitrust Case
A proposed 10-year order would require Redfin to rebuild its rental advertising business while preserving a narrower listings partnership with Zillow.
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Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI Over Hugging Face AI Breach
Alabama’s attorney general is demanding records on OpenAI’s July model-evaluation incident as states test whether existing consumer laws reach frontier AI.
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Alibaba Prices $10.2 Billion Share Sale for AI Buildout
Alibaba priced 710 million new shares at HK$112.70 each, with the Hong Kong placement expected to close Aug. 26 and all net proceeds earmarked for AI.
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TikTok Agrees to $400 Million Children’s Privacy Settlement
TikTok and ByteDance will pay $400 million to resolve a federal COPPA case, with $300 million due immediately and no admission of wrongdoing.
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Alibaba’s AI Cloud Revenue Jumps 45% as Profit Falls 75%
Alibaba’s June-quarter results show AI cloud and compute revenue climbing 45% as nearly $10 billion in capital spending and other factors pressure cash flow and profit.
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Stripe Agrees to Acquire OpenRouter, Deepening Its AI Infrastructure Push
The payments company is buying a platform that routes developer requests across hundreds of AI models, extending Stripe from billing into AI usage control.
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Twitch Defaults Creator Content Into Amazon AI Training
Twitch added an account setting that allows streamers to opt out of Amazon’s generative AI training, leaving creator content eligible by default.