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A U.S. judge recently ruled in favor of Anthropic in its dispute with the Defense Department over military contracts. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick indicated the AI company has mended its relationship with the Trump administration following the decision.

The Trump administration filed a brief in Manhattan federal court supporting OpenAI's position that AI training constitutes fair use of copyrighted material. The government cited scientific advancement and national security concerns. The case stems from a 2023 lawsuit by the New York Times accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of using the newspaper's articles without authorization to train ChatGPT.

The enterprise AI operating system company completed a Series C funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation from Salesforce. Wonderful's valuation more than doubled from $2 billion six months earlier, and the company has now raised over $800 million since its founding in early 2025.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pressed G20 countries to avoid writing regulations for artificial intelligence that focus on theoretical harms at a tech-focused meeting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Wednesday. Huang appeared alongside U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

Uber plans to eliminate 3,300 jobs, representing 10% of its global workforce. The company is trimming management layers as competition intensifies in food delivery and the robotaxi sector.

MapQuest has remained defiant against the move and surged to the top of the US App Store download charts. A poll conducted by Ipsos and Reuters found that 63 percent of Americans opposed Lake Ontario's renaming, while 14 percent supported the decision.

Apple has begun renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America" on its Maps app for users in the United States, following an executive order from President Trump. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Trump reached out directly to the company, making Apple the second major tech firm to comply with the directive after Google.

U.S. law enforcement and cybersecurity company CrowdStrike announced Tuesday that they are dismantling Sality, a Russian hacking operation active since 2003. U.S. officials seized the web domains used to control compromised computers, while CrowdStrike cut off the botnet from its operator by seeding the network with false information. The operation was carried out in coordination with European law enforcement.

For the second time in fiscal 2027, Dell Technologies has raised its annual revenue and profit forecasts, driven by surging demand for AI-optimized servers from technology companies building data centers. The company now expects AI server revenue of $74 billion, up from $60 billion, and lifted its full-year revenue outlook to $192 billion, a $25 billion increase.

The cybersecurity firm reported fourth-quarter revenue of $3.41 billion, surpassing Wall Street expectations. It has also acquired Console, an AI-native platform that Chief Executive Nikesh Arora says will let customers write agentic workflows in plain language to spot and fix problems automatically as AI deployment accelerates security demands.

GoPro is being acquired by optical-photonics company Starman Optical in a $285 million transaction. The combined company will expand into AI infrastructure, defense, robotics and aerospace while GoPro continues its core action camera and subscription services business.

Dyson has launched the CameraJet, an electric toothbrush with a built-in camera that livestreams video to a smartphone and uses an AI algorithm to direct mouthwash into gaps between teeth. You can order it today in ceramic blue or ceramic pink for $499.

John Ternus took over as chief executive of Apple on Tuesday, the first leadership change at the company since 2011. Tim Cook, who led the technology giant for 15 years, will remain as executive chairman of the board.

Apple escalated its legal battle against OpenAI on Monday, claiming the AI company is destroying evidence and that former engineer Chang Liu downloaded a confidential circuit schematic and used it in his work. OpenAI denied the allegations, contending that Apple has not demonstrated any theft of proprietary information and that workers in California may move freely among competing firms.

Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud computing agreement with Lambda, a startup backed by Nvidia. Nvidia, which has invested in both companies, will lease a data center from Hut 8 and Lambda will pay Nvidia to access it.

In a court filing, Apple contends that a onetime senior engineer obtained proprietary circuit designs while employed at the startup and subsequently used them to develop an AI agent in March 2026. The claim surfaced after OpenAI turned over a MacBook to Apple on August 21 during discovery in their trade secret litigation.

The Federal Trade Commission and 22 U.S. states filed a lawsuit against Amazon, alleging the company raised minimum prices for product advertising without advertisers' knowledge. The FTC says the practice systematically inflated auction prices and cost advertisers $20 billion or more. Amazon denies the claims.

Sony and Warner Music filed suit against Anthropic in California federal court, alleging the company used hundreds of copyrighted song lyrics and sheet music from artists including The Beatles and Taylor Swift to train its Claude AI models. The case is part of a wave of copyright litigation against tech companies over their use of protected works in AI development.

The European Commission on Monday classified ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox as very large online platforms under its Digital Services Act, subjecting them to stricter rules on content moderation and user protection. Each service crossed the threshold of 45 million average monthly active users in the European Union, triggering obligations that carry potential fines of up to 6 percent of global revenue for non-compliance.

Following an alert from Indian authorities, Meta deleted numerous advertisements from Facebook and Instagram that weaponized explicit imagery to trick people into installing credential-stealing malware. Cybercriminals are capitalizing on India's explosive growth in digital payments, with the country suffering approximately $2.4 billion in fraud losses during 2025.

Nvidia said on Monday it has invested $3.5 billion in convertible bonds issued by Taiwan's MediaTek. The deal includes MediaTek adopting Nvidia's NVLink Fusion platform to develop custom AI chips that connect to Nvidia-powered systems, and extends their collaboration on AI chips for personal computers and vehicles.

The European Union designated ChatGPT as a very large digital service on August 31, making it the first AI chatbot subject to tougher rules under the Digital Services Act. Reddit and Roblox received the same designation, all three having four months to comply with obligations including assessing systemic risks related to illegal content, effects on minors, and impacts on fundamental rights and electoral processes.