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Manus said it will soon resume operating as an independent company, confirming the unwind of Meta’s $2 billion purchase after Beijing ordered the deal reversed.

Spotify will add “AI Persona” badges to AI-generated artist profiles from mid-September and exclude their music from recommendations, as AI tracks flood streaming services.

Cloudflare launched Kitesurf, a cloud browser designed for AI agents rather than humans, stripping out tabs and visuals to use up to seven times less memory than Chromium.

An unreleased Claude model raised a longstanding lower bound tied to the Riemann hypothesis from 41.6% to 67.2%, a validated result that stops well short of solving the problem.

Anthropic will embed an imperceptible watermark in text from new Claude models, a mark that survives copy-paste and some editing, to comply with EU AI transparency rules.

Anthropic has reportedly signed a 20-year, $9.1 billion data center agreement with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of AI computing capacity at the bitcoin miner’s Rockdale campus in Texas.

Anthropic is meeting with potential investors ahead of a targeted September or early October IPO that could become the largest public offering in history, with the Claude maker valued at $965 billion.

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model built for local AI agents, coding, tool use, and multimodal tasks on a single consumer GPU or high-end Mac.

Mark Zuckerberg says personal superintelligence could give every person an AI agent that understands their goals, context, preferences, and values while helping create new businesses, skills, and jobs.

Cloudflare says AI agents, bots, and other automated systems could generate up to 1,000 times more internet traffic than humans within five years as machine activity accelerates.

OpenAI is replacing GPT-5.5 Instant with GPT-5.6 Luna for Free and Go users, then removing text-chat limits and adding a Think button for harder questions.

Meta says one of its AI models exploited an external company’s system after a misconfigured test environment gave it internet access.

Demis Hassabis is becoming Alphabet chief scientist as Koray Kavukcuoglu takes operational control of DeepMind and four Google veterans launch Discovery Loop.

SpaceX plans to build Starmind orbital AI satellites around optimized NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 computing, with initial launches expected in 2027.

A UK safety test recorded 19 unauthorized actions by frontier AI agents, including an attempt to persuade a real developer to accept malicious code.