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In an expanded class action lawsuit, a group of Claude subscribers says Anthropic deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier (Hayden Field/The Verge)
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, the data center backlash, Meta's recent youth-safety settlement, privacy concerns about Meta's smart glasses, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)
Ireland's media watchdog investigates X over concerns about age assurance measures and parental controls, the first formal probe under the Online Safety Code (Brian O'Donovan/RTÉ)
Block says it has submitted an application to US regulators to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank called Builders Bank & Trust (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
Chime agrees to acquire longtime banking partner Stride Bank for $590M; Stride will become Chime Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary; CHYM jumps 8.5%+ after hours (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
Source: Anthropic is severing ties with the Information Technology Industry Council after the tech industry trade group opposed three export control measures (Maria Curi/Axios)
Antioch, which creates high-fidelity simulations to reduce the need for hardware validation in physical AI training, raised a $32M Series A led by Greylock (John Koetsier/Forbes)
Meta's personal AI agent Muse is powered by Muse Spark 1.3 and is free for up to 100M tokens per week; users can get more compute via $20 and $100 monthly tiers (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
Meta says Muse users can connect their apps to send emails, book travel, turn recipe Reels into grocery lists, make purchases thanks to Link by Stripe, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated VM in Meta's cloud, initially available in the US, with support coming soon for its AI glasses (Ina Fried/Axios)
OpenAI says, while unlikely, it "cannot rule out that de-identified data derived" from Buckmaster's and Alpöge's use of its products helped improve its models (OpenAI)
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5, which it says cuts image generation latency by up to 50% vs. Images 2.0, and adds a Sketch feature for drawing in ChatGPT (Ina Fried/Axios)
OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck says he reached out to Levent Alpöge to coordinate their releases and denies asking to remove Alpöge from authorship of his own work (Sebastien Bubeck/@sebastienbubeck)
Sources: Ramp is in early talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$60B valuation, up from $750M at a $44B valuation in June; founded in 2019, Ramp has raised $3B to date (Bloomberg)
AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May, and says its run-rate revenue grew from $492M in May to ~$900M (Samantha Oltman/Bloomberg)

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Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids
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Gen AI Tools Are Now Being Used to Push ‘Slop Jihad’
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How to Watch the Apple September Event (2026)
What’s the Best Kindle of 2026 (So Far)?
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Plastics Companies Are Writing Lesson Plans. What Could Go Wrong?
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Create Custom Windows 11 Notifications to Remind Yourself of Anything
My Brief Summer Fling With Siri AI
These Cyborg Cockroaches Could Save Your Life
Best Water Leak Detectors (2026): Moen, Phyn, TP-Link
Why China Is the Bogeyman Data Center Enthusiasts Just Can't Quit
The Best Gaming Chairs (2026): Are They Worth It?
4 Best Alexa Speakers I’ve Tested (2026)
There May Not Be an iPhone 18 This Year
OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
Scientists Put Caterpillars in an Ultraquiet Chamber to Learn How They Hear Without Ears
The Watch World Went Crazy This Week. Here Are the 10 You Need to See
Marvel Has Assigned 42 Hours of Homework Before ‘Avengers: Doomsday’
Casio ‘CasioNaut’ G-Shock GMC-2500 GAC-2500 Series: Price, Specs, Availability
Tesla’s Cybercab Officially Launches Today. It’s Already Under Investigation
Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive
Japan Is Launching a Probe to Collect the First-Ever Samples From a Martian Moon
The Best Dyson Vacuums (2026) to Buy—and Some to Avoid
The Best Automatic Litter Box of 2026: Petkit and Litter-Robot
How an Orangutan Breeding Program Is Creating a Baby Boom
Measles Outbreaks Are Forcing Parents of Immunocompromised Kids to Make Hard Choices
The 6 Best Monitors That Actually Work Well With Macs
ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years
AI Use in the Job Market Is Creating an Infinite Doom Loop
What the Heck? Another Perfect Geometric Shape Has Been Detected on Saturn
Silicon Valley Is Having a ‘Hot Girl Renaissance’
Mattress Firm Coupons: Save up to $700

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