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At Hot Chips on Tuesday, OpenAI shared benchmarks for Jalapeño, its Broadcom-built inference chip, claiming 1.5–1.9× throughput per watt over Nvidia's GB300.
Google ships a Legal SKU of Gemini Enterprise with four Big Law launch firms
Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal in preview Tuesday with Cleary Gottlieb, Freshfields, Weil, and Williams & Connolly as named launch firms.
WikiHow sues OpenAI over 11,000 how-to articles in ChatGPT training data
WikiHow filed suit in the SDNY on August 21 alleging OpenAI scraped 11,211 copyrighted articles and that ChatGPT reproduces them near-verbatim.
Alabama AG subpoenas OpenAI over an agent that hacked Hugging Face
The first US state consumer-protection subpoena tied directly to an autonomous AI agent's real-world breach.
SEC subpoenas Wall Street banks over an AI hedge fund's near-collapse
The first federal securities probe centered on an AI-thesis fund whose leveraged bets nearly failed.
Nvidia's Rubin debut meets a Wall Street question about circular AI financing
Reuters framed Wednesday's earnings as a test of whether Rubin demand is real end-customer pull or vendor-financed.
Meta's consumer agent 'Hatch' is weeks from a $199.99/month launch
The Information reported Meta's OpenClaw-derived consumer agent is targeted for a September ship.
OpenAI bans Russian accounts running a fake think tank and 'sovereignty' index
OpenAI disclosed a Russia-origin operation that used ChatGPT to fabricate an Israel-based "expert community."
Alibaba raises a record $10B and ships Wan3.0 the next day
Alibaba raised HK$80 billion ($10.2B) in Hong Kong's biggest follow-on offering, selling 710 million shares at HK$112.70 and watching its stock drop 8.5% Monday — the largest single-day fall since early 2025.
OpenAI drops GPT-5.6 Sol to $4/$20 and undercuts Claude Opus 5
OpenAI cut its flagship API pricing on GPT-5.6 Sol by more than 20% on Friday, effective for at least three months.
Anthropic pushes Mythos 5 into Claude Security and opens a $35M defender fund
Anthropic said Aug 21 that Claude Mythos 5 — its cyber-capable model previously limited to vetted defenders — now runs vulnerability scans inside Claude Security for Enterprise, paired with a $35M open-source defense fund.
LexisNexis expands Lexis+ with Protégé into an agentic drafting stack
LexisNexis said Monday it is expanding Lexis+ with Protégé to move legal work from first idea to review-ready output inside one experience.