Business
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Policy & Regulation
Sony and Warner widen Anthropic’s copyright fight to training-data provenance
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over alleged torrenting and copying, putting training-data provenance and acquisition controls under scrutiny.
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Business
Z.AI's results show API economics overtaking model licensing
Z.AI says API services reached 86.5% of first-half revenue as usage, pricing and gross margin improved, while R&D spending remained above RMB2.1bn.
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Business
Meta’s AI-native overhaul hit the limits of agent productivity
Reuters’ Project OT investigation shows how Meta’s AI-native workforce plan ran into productivity, reliability, security and organizational constraints.
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Agents
Google turns agent spending limits into runtime controls
Google Cloud adds pooled quotas, pay-as-you-go billing and project spend caps for Gemini Enterprise, Antigravity and other agent workloads.
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New Models
Thomson Reuters launches its own LLM for professional workflows
Thomson Reuters launches a $40M proprietary LLM for professional workflows, starting in CoCounsel Legal while keeping a multi-model architecture.
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Business
Alibaba prices HK$80 billion share placement to fund AI expansion
Alibaba prices 710 million new shares at HK$112.70, directing all net proceeds to full-stack AI capabilities and infrastructure, pending expected August 26 closing.
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Industry
Chinese AI models take OpenRouter’s top three spots in real-world usage
DeepSeek, Tencent and Xiaomi lead OpenRouter’s weekly token rankings, showing a major shift in real-world developer usage across coding and agent workloads.
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Business
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol API pricing for three months
GPT-5.6 Sol input falls to $4 and output to $20 per million tokens on AWS through at least November 21, materially changing frontier-model workload economics.
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New Models
Grok 4.6 lands in Google’s enterprise model catalog
Google adds Grok 4.6 to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform in Preview, with 524K context, reasoning, function calling and fixed launch quotas.
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Infrastructure & Chips
Starcloud Raises $250M to Scale Nvidia-Powered AI Data Centers in Orbit
Starcloud raises $250 million at a $2.3 billion valuation as Nvidia and Cisco back its orbital AI data-center scale-up.
