• August 25, 2026
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OpenAI Restores Five-Hour Usage Cap on ChatGPT Plus

On the morning of Aug. 25, a familiar message returned for some ChatGPT Plus subscribers: usage limit reached. OpenAI has restored its rolling five-hour cap for the standard tier of…

  • August 25, 2026
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Anthropic Pitches Investors on $30 Trillion Market Ahead of Planned IPO

The pitch begins with a number that dwarfs the global economy: more than $30 trillion. Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, plans to tell prospective investors that its…

  • August 25, 2026
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Emerald AI Raises $150 Million to Turn Data Centers Into Flexible Power Users

On hot afternoons in California, when grid operators plead for every megawatt, a data center running Emerald AI’s software does the opposite of what its tenants expect: it throttles back.…

  • August 25, 2026
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SoftBank Explores Up to $20 Billion Bond Sale to Refinance OpenAI Stake

SoftBank Group executives have begun talks with investment banks about a bond offering that could raise between $10 billion and $20 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, part…

  • August 25, 2026
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Anthropic Researchers Warn of ‘Mind Viruses’ Spreading Between AI Agents

The exchange lasted only a few sentences. One AI agent told another to adopt a new belief and pass it along, and within moments the instruction had taken hold: the…

  • August 24, 2026
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Micron Falls 6.9% as China Memory IPO and Patent Fight Weigh on the Stock

BOISE, Idaho — Micron Technology’s shares fell about 6.9 percent on Monday, sliding below $910, as investors weighed two pressures at once: a coming Chinese memory-chip initial public offering that…

  • August 24, 2026
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Data Center Backlash Moves Into the Midterm Campaign

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The sign outside the county commission hearing room said the agenda item was a “data center zoning amendment.” The people who filled the seats were not there…

  • August 24, 2026
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Streamers Sue Twitch and Amazon Over AI Training on Livestreams

SAN FRANCISCO — A group of American online streamers filed a class-action lawsuit against Twitch and its parent company Amazon on Aug. 21, accusing the companies of using livestream content…

  • August 24, 2026
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Walmart Ends Its Apple Pay Holdout, Accepting Tap-to-Pay at the Register

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — For the better part of a decade, Walmart was the most prominent holdout in American payments, refusing to accept Apple Pay and Google Pay at its registers…

  • August 24, 2026
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Cook to Step Down as Apple CEO, Ternus Takes the Helm

CUPERTINO, Calif. — In one week, Tim Cook will do what no Apple chief executive has done since the company’s founding era: hand the job to a successor while staying…