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FTC says Amazon quietly turned its ad auction into a first-price one
The FTC and 22 states sued Amazon on August 31, 2026. The complaint says Amazon charged advertisers their own maximum bid about 80% of the time by 2024.
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Funding, policy, and company moves that affect developers.
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Anthropic reportedly commits $35B over six years for Lambda compute
Reports say Anthropic signed a $35 billion, six-year deal for computing from Lambda at a Texas data center. Four companies sit in the chain, and Nvidia holds the lease.
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Google pulls every Manifest V2 extension from the Chrome Web Store
The last Manifest V2 extensions, classic uBlock Origin among them, are gone from the Chrome Web Store. Copies already installed keep running, but they get no updates.
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OpenAI says ChatGPT ads hit a $1B run rate in under 200 days
OpenAI said on August 31, 2026 that ChatGPT advertising reached a $1 billion annualized run rate in under 200 days. Self-serve buying opened outside the US the same day.
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South Korea picks three operators to give every resident free AI
South Korea's science ministry named consortia led by SK Telecom, KT and Kakao to run free, unlimited AI for the whole country. Most usage must run on Korean models.
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Tim Cook ends 15 years as Apple CEO; John Ternus takes over
August 31, 2026 is Tim Cook's last day running Apple. John Ternus, who has led hardware engineering, becomes chief executive on September 1, 2026.
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Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over lyrics used to train Claude
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic on August 28, 2026, naming Dario Amodei personally and alleging torrented books and scraped lyric sites.
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Texas halts state funding for Flock's AI license plate cameras
Governor Greg Abbott ordered Texas agencies to stop funding Flock cameras on August 27, 2026, after officers were charged with using the network to stalk people.
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Judge rules Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist was illegal retaliation
A federal judge found the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic violated the First and Fifth Amendments. A second case is pending, and an appeal is coming.
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Meta settles state addiction claims for up to $17.1 billion
Meta will pay about $12 billion over 10 years, rising to $17.1 billion if rival platforms settle too. Teen accounts get a 2-hour default cap and a nightly lockout.
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Nvidia posts $96.2B quarter and guides to $108B for Q3
Nvidia reported $96.2 billion in revenue, up 106% in a year, with data centre sales at $89 billion. Its own release guides to $108 billion for this quarter.
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Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, reports say
The Information reports Nvidia agreed to pay $12.9 billion for Hugging Face, the model hub developers use daily. Neither company has confirmed the deal yet.
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Researcher breaks C2PA photo credentials on Android, Google won't fix
David Buchanan showed that Android phones can sign fake photos as camera-real. Google paid a $7,500 bounty and closed the report as infeasible to fix.
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Marvell hands Google a $12.2B stock option to build its custom chips
Marvell gave Google a warrant to buy up to $12.2B in stock, vesting as Google buys custom silicon - a deal worth ~$120B through fiscal 2033 that widens the TPU supply base beyond Broadcom.
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Edge begins dropping Manifest V2, leaving uBlock Origin to Firefox
Microsoft Edge has begun phasing out Manifest V2 extensions, cutting off classic uBlock Origin and leaving Firefox as the last major browser still running it.
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Apple rejects astronomy app Dark Hours for 'astrology' - twice
Apple rejected Terry Godier's astronomy app Dark Hours as astrology, and its App Review Board upheld the call citing a tarot feature the app doesn't have.
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