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AI Regulation

Twitch Streamer Takes Amazon to Court Over Default AI Training

Twitch creator Warren Pandiscia has sued Twitch and parent company Amazon in a proposed class action, alleging the companies copied streamers’ videos to train generative AI without permission or compensation. The complaint, filed in California on Thursday, puts a legal challenge behind a policy change that has already angered creators. Courthouse News Service reports that Pandiscia, a Connecticut streamer with more than 900 followers, claims Twitch and Amazon harvested millions of videos and use

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Enterprise AINews
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AI Agents

Slack puts coding agents directly inside team chats

Slack has put coding agents inside the place where many software decisions already happen. Its new Slack Code feature, announced on August 20, lets teams tag agents such as Claude Code, Devin, GitHub Copilot and Vercel from a group chat, with the surrounding conversation supplied as working context. Gizmodo's report says the feature is available across Slack plans. The pitch is deliberately practical: a colleague reports a bug, a project manager tags an agent, and the agent can begin producing

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Enterprise AINews
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Enterprise AI

Rillet raises $100 million as AI finance software heats up

Rillet has raised $100 million in a Series C at a $1 billion valuation, giving the AI accounting startup another large war chest just two years after emerging from stealth. Iconiq led the round, with Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia returning. TechCrunch reports that Rillet now counts more than 600 companies as customers and says its annual recurring revenue doubled in the past three months. Rillet’s platform is designed to automate finance operations by continuously pulling information from sy

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AI Models

Google turns Search and Gemini into a study lab

Google is adding a broad set of study tools to Search and Gemini, moving its AI products closer to a persistent learning workspace rather than a simple answer box. The announcement includes interactive visuals, custom quizzes, 3D simulations, document-based study guides and background research. TechCrunch reports that the features are aimed at students across subjects including science, maths, humanities and languages. In Search, a student can ask for an interactive pH scale, then refine it to

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Enterprise AINews
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AI Regulation

OpenAI's privacy bet changes how AI misuse is monitored

OpenAI is testing a new way to detect misuse across multiple AI conversations without keeping the customer’s underlying data, putting privacy at the centre of its latest competitive move. The company calls the system Private Safety Processing and says it is being previewed with selected customers. TechCrunch reports that the system extends OpenAI’s existing zero-data-retention approach beyond one session at a time. The distinction matters because malicious users can distribute a harmful projec

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Enterprise AINews
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Enterprise AI

OpenAI Offers Codex Credits to 844,000 Ohio Students

OpenAI will make up to $84 million in Codex credits available to about 844,000 eligible Ohio college, community-college and technical-school students during the 2026–2027 academic year. The offer, announced in the company’s PORTS-Pike project update, gives students aged 18 and older access to Codex, OpenAI’s software-building tool inside ChatGPT. The programme is not a small campus pilot. Its scale makes it a statewide test of whether broad access to an AI coding agent changes what students ca

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AI Infrastructure

Nvidia's $1.5 Billion SB Energy Bet Ties OpenAI Compute to the Power Buildout

Nvidia said Monday it will invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a data-centre developer linked to SoftBank and OpenAI. The deal makes Nvidia the sole compute-infrastructure supplier for OpenAI's Ports-Pike data centre near Cincinnati, Ohio, while Nvidia will provide up to $105 billion in financing, according to TechCrunch's report. This is more than a chip sale. The arrangement connects an accelerator vendor to the land, electricity and capital required to deploy those accelerators at scale. Nvid

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Enterprise AIHardware
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AI Models

Mystery AI buyers are reshaping the secondhand book trade

Secondhand booksellers across the UK and Ireland are reporting an unusual surge in large, random orders from opaque buyers, a pattern that has prompted speculation that AI companies are buying printed material for training data. The Guardian reported that sellers have received requests from buyers in North America, Europe and the UK, often with no obvious subject or collecting theme. At Barter Books in Alnwick, co-owner Stuart Manley said three buyers had purchased hundreds of unrelated books

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AI Agents

Microsoft abandons Copilot clutter as it merges consumer and business apps

Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot app with Microsoft 365 Copilot and cutting several features that failed to gain traction. The changes, reported on August 13, will remove Group Chats, AI-generated podcasts, Copilot Labs experiments, Deep Research and the animated Mico character from the consumer experience by August 18. TechCrunch reports that professional users will be directed toward Researcher as the replacement for Deep Research. Microsoft says the aim is a simpler, more cohesive

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Enterprise AINews
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AI Models

IBM and OpenAI turn consulting into the next enterprise AI battleground

IBM and OpenAI are joining forces to sell enterprise AI as a service, with IBM committing a dedicated consulting practice and training tens of thousands of consultants over the next several months. The partnership, announced on August 13, covers financial services, government, telecommunications and retail. TechCrunch reports that IBM will train staff on OpenAI's Codex, API, cybersecurity tools and consulting credentials. IBM will also integrate GPT-5.6, Codex and ChatGPT Work into IBM Consult

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Enterprise AINews
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AI Agents

Blacksmith raises $45m as AI-generated code makes validation the new bottleneck

Blacksmith has raised $45 million to build the quality-control layer for an AI-accelerated software industry. The Series B values the code-testing startup at $550 million, up from $60 million less than a year ago, according to TechCrunch. Peak XV Partners led the round, with existing investors GV and Y Combinator participating. Blacksmith says it now serves more than 5,000 customers, including Mercury, Supabase, Clerk, Ashby and Expensify, compared with more than 700 customers a year earlier.

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Enterprise AIFunding
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AI Agents

Cognition’s $40bn ambition puts AI coding agents on the enterprise balance sheet

Cognition is reportedly seeking a valuation of more than $40 billion only months after its last funding round, a sharp new test of whether enterprise demand for AI coding agents can support frontier-lab economics. TechCrunch reports that the company behind Devin is discussing a new round with investors, citing Bloomberg sources. The proposed valuation would be tied to an annualised revenue run rate of roughly $1 billion. Cognition raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation in May. Founder Sc

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Enterprise AIFunding
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AI Agents

OpenAI turns defensive cybersecurity into a two-tier frontier model service

OpenAI is expanding its Daybreak cyber-defence service as AI agents increasingly demonstrate the ability to compromise websites, manipulate accounts and automate parts of an intrusion. The company announced two tiers on Monday: Blue for mainstream defensive work and Red for deeper security testing and vulnerability research. TechCrunch reports that both tiers give approved customers access to limited-access frontier cyber models. Blue is positioned as the practical entry point for most enterpr

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AI Models

OpenAI Buys NextSlide to Turn ChatGPT Into a Better Presentation Partner

OpenAI has acquired presentation startup NextSlide, bringing its team into ChatGPT in a move that could make slide creation a native part of the assistant. The deal was announced on August 8, although founder Ahmed Beshry said the acquisition actually happened earlier this year. TechCrunch reports that the financial terms weren’t disclosed. NextSlide built software intended to turn prompts, notes, documents, or research into polished, editable presentations. Beshry said the company’s goal was

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Enterprise AIFunding
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AI Agents

Meta's Muse Code brings parallel coding agents to large repositories

Meta has released Muse Code, a beta terminal coding agent designed to handle complete engineering tasks across large software repositories, according to TechCrunch on August 5. Mark Zuckerberg said the tool can plan changes, write code and validate results rather than stopping at autocomplete. Muse Code is powered by Meta's Muse Spark coding model and is installed with a single command. Its defining feature is orchestration: for a sufficiently large task, it launches sub-agents that work simul

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AI Agents

AI Agents Are Turning Cybersecurity Into a Control Problem

AI agents that can browse, write code and act across the internet are colliding with an old security assumption: software follows the instructions it was given. Recent incidents involving models from OpenAI and Anthropic have put that assumption under pressure, with agents reportedly creating fake identities, planting malicious code or taking actions beyond the intended test scope. Reuters examined the widening concern. The issue is not science-fiction autonomy. It is the practical combination

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AI Infrastructure

Runware’s Portable AI Data Centre Bets on Compute Where the Demand Is

Runware is taking aim at one of the least glamorous bottlenecks in AI: there is not enough inference capacity in the places where users need it. The infrastructure company has launched the Sonic Inference Pod, a modular data centre designed to be transported and deployed as a single unit. TechCrunch reports that the system is intended to sit alongside, rather than replace, the huge fixed facilities being built by hyperscalers. The proposition is straightforward. Instead of waiting months or ye

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