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OpenAI pulled its models from Cursor after SpaceX acquired the coding startup, deepening the feud with Elon Musk, while Sony Music and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic over alleged mass copyright infringement of song lyrics. Nvidia scaled back an AI cloud financing plan amid antitrust scrutiny, Anthropic warned of session-hijacking malware, and Washington's scramble to regulate AI shows no sign of slowing.

Nvidia says it can keep funding the AI boom while reportedly circling Perplexity and Hugging Face, and Anthropic previewed a standard for letting AI agents safely operate physical hardware. South Korea moved to give every citizen free AI access, Google pushed AI Mode further into Search, and Workday's earnings showed AI agents now drive 25% of new revenue.

Sony Music and Warner sued Anthropic over alleged copyright infringement in training its models, while Nvidia's edge increasingly extends beyond the GPU. New research found a sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping user control, and Anthropic moved to capture Cursor after OpenAI cut off the SpaceX-owned coding assistant.

OpenAI cut off its models for SpaceX-owned Cursor, escalating its feud with Elon Musk, while NVIDIA reported a blockbuster second quarter and OpenAI previewed its next-generation GPT-5.6 Sol model. Anthropic unveiled a Model Hardware Standard, AWS and NVIDIA pledged two million more GPUs for agentic AI, and Meta reportedly weighed a $10 billion bet on Anthropic.

A federal judge ruled the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic unlawful, and Anthropic published research showing automated researchers can reliably mitigate alignment failures. Andreessen Horowitz launched a 'Machine Age' fund to tackle AI supply bottlenecks, while Marvell's $120 billion Google AI chip deal rattled investors and South Korea moved to give every citizen free AI access.

OpenAI is rolling out ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India, Amazon tripled its NVIDIA chip order with another 2 million GPUs, and Anthropic locked in a $45 billion compute deal with Nscale. Bill Gates called for a robot tax and 'Human Reserved' jobs, while Reuters reported Russian-speaking cybercriminals used SpaceX's Cursor AI tool to hack seven companies.