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🚫 Anthropic bans OpenAI for violating service terms
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- Anthropic has blocked OpenAI from accessing its Claude models, alleging its rival violated commercial terms of service by using the API to help develop the upcoming competing GPT-5 model.
- OpenAI defended the activity as standard industry practice for benchmarking, but Anthropic previously cut off startup Windsurf right before its main competitor attempted a $3 billion acquisition of the company.
- The decision arrives just weeks before OpenAI’s crucial GPT-5 launch, a move seemingly intended to disrupt final preparations while the company is reportedly operating in full-blown “crisis mode.”
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⏸️ Reddit pauses its paywall plans
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- Reddit is pausing its plan to introduce paid subreddits for exclusive content, shifting priorities to strengthening its core product, improving search, and accelerating the site's international growth.
- CEO Steve Huffman explained the move away from the "user economy" project is designed to address the company's most important current need: growing its base of logged-in core users.
- The team that was developing the feature will be reassigned to improve the main Reddit app, specifically working on better user onboarding and increased account personalization for the service.
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⚖️ Tesla to pay $243M in fatal Autopilot crash
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- A Florida jury ordered Tesla to pay $243 million in punitive and compensatory damages after finding the company one-third liable for a fatal 2019 crash involving its Autopilot software.
- The Model S, with Autopilot activated, sped through an intersection and hit a parked SUV because the system failed to brake, leading to the death of a 22-year-old college student.
- This case marks the first time a lawsuit concerning Tesla's autonomous systems has reached a trial verdict, as the automaker previously settled similar claims out of court to avoid proceedings.
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🚀 SpaceX sends four astronauts to the space station
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- A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched a Dragon spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center, sending two NASA astronauts, a Japanese astronaut, and a Russian cosmonaut on a six-month mission.
- After a roughly 16-hour flight, the international crew is expected to dock with the orbiting laboratory early Saturday morning, where they will conduct science experiments for at least six months.
- This launch occurred as NASA faces major internal challenges, including the loss of 4,000 employees from federal spending cuts and operating without a permanent full-time leader since last January.
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🐜 Manus AI launches a 100-agent swarm for research
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- Manus AI's new "Wide Research" feature gives users a personal supercomputing cluster, deploying a swarm of over 100 agents to work in parallel on a single large-scale research task.
- Unlike systems with specialized roles, each subagent is a general-purpose Manus instance running on its own virtual machine, enabling flexible agent-to-agent collaboration on a variety of complex problems.
- The feature is experimental and lacks performance benchmarks to prove its advantages, while Manus has already faced regulatory bans in two US states over its core autonomous operation principles.
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📈 Nintendo raises original Switch prices due to ‘market conditions’
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- Nintendo will raise the cost of its original console lineup, including the Switch OLED, Nintendo Switch, and Switch Lite, with the change effective August 3rd due to "market conditions."
- The increase is attributed to "market conditions," likely referencing new US tariffs on goods from China, Vietnam, and Japan, where the company's hardware is produced and it is based.
- This hike also affects certain accessories for both console models, plus other products like Amiibo and the Nintendo Alarmo, though the Switch 2's cost currently remains unchanged.
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