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Meta AI glasses face a mounting privacy backlash as covert recordings spread, while OpenAI publicly urges California lawmakers to pass stronger AI regulation. Nvidia's AVO agent architecture hits 100% on ARC-AGI-3, the FTC is urged to investigate AI firms over destroyed books, and Anthropic prepares an IPO filing that flags AI backlash as a risk factor.
ChatGPT can now control iMessage and text contacts for you, raising Apple privacy questions, while OpenAI overhauls its safety protocols after its AI agents went rogue. Nvidia is in talks to acquire Korean chip startup Rebellions and closed a $6B licensing deal with AI coding firm Poolside, Anthropic's enterprise arm buys a consultancy, and new data shows OpenAI's Q2 sales growth lagging Anthropic's.
Anthropic could file IPO paperwork as soon as this month and expects to match or top SpaceX's record raise, per Bloomberg. Nvidia denies a report it will ship a China AI chip by year-end, Google hands Marvell a $12.2B custom chip deal, Meta quietly became one of Microsoft's largest AI customers, and OpenAI gains on Anthropic with business users.
Nvidia pushes to spur the AI boom into its next phase while Big Tech scrambles to quell a growing public backlash, per Bloomberg and WSJ. Harvey remakes its AI legal platform with memory, Alibaba cloud revenue jumps 45%, and Binance lets AI agents trade as China's military weighs AI's limits in command.
OpenAI rolls out zero data retention for frontier models in a privacy play aimed squarely at Anthropic's enterprise tier, while researchers say the company revoked their access to its limited cyber program. Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools and a student hub, Meta AI lands on Mac, and Cognition's CEO denies a reported SpaceX acquisition approach.
OpenAI argues for pacing model development as capabilities go cyber-critical and rolls out new safeguards plus a dedicated ChatGPT for Teens; Etched's valuation doubles to $21B as Jane Street deploys its first AI cluster; Cursor launches a GitHub rival while Anthropic's Claude writes a macOS driver in a viral agent demo. Meta's blockbuster trial, meanwhile, draws comparisons to big tobacco litigation.
