Federal Judge Mark Pittman is demanding X and SpaceX's AI unit turn over any agreement that led them to voluntarily drop antitrust claims against Apple, while continuing their suit against OpenAI. The original lawsuit alleged Apple and OpenAI colluded to suppress rival AI apps on the App Store after agreeing to integrate ChatGPT into Siri. OpenAI filed an emergency motion pushing for disclosure of the settlement terms, and Pittman has given the companies until noon on September 17 to respond.
Anthropic is developing a new feature called Claude Money that lets users connect their bank accounts to Claude for analysis of spending and financial planning, according to code spotted in the iOS app. The feature has not been officially announced and appears limited to internal testing, with no confirmed details on supported banks, connection methods, or regional availability.
Anthropic has merged the separate front ends for Claude chat, Cowork and Artifacts into one interface, letting the AI automatically route tasks instead of forcing users to pick the right tab. The update also adds dedicated tools for creating and editing presentations and documents, which can be shared via link, exported as PDF or PowerPoint, and continued across desktop and mobile. The features are rolling out first to Pro and Max subscribers, with free and team tiers to follow.
Nvidia Inception's Global Head of Physical AI, Les Karpas, will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 about why robotics hasn't had its breakthrough moment the way ChatGPT transformed language AI. His session will examine the lack of an internet-scale dataset for physical AI, unlike the vast text corpora that powered large language models or the road-mile data amassed by self-driving companies like Waymo.
OpenAI has held early talks with investors about raising fresh capital at a valuation exceeding $1.2 trillion, according to reports. The round would come as the company prepares for a widely expected public listing next year.
Chinese filmmakers are increasingly turning to AI tools like ChatGPT, Kimi and DeepSeek to draft screenplays and generate footage, with one studio producing a 90-minute AI-assisted film for roughly $500,000 versus the millions typical productions cost. Director Lu Beike, known for the series 'Three-Body,' says AI-generated scenes still fall short of live performances, sometimes forcing crews to make real actors look less realistic so they blend with AI-generated environments.
Relay, a five-year-old AI workflow automation startup positioned as a Zapier alternative, ceased operations this week. The company struggled to justify its existence as a standalone product once larger platforms like OpenAI and Google began building similar email and task automation directly into their own tools.
As AI companies push agentic tools that can act autonomously on behalf of users—accessing accounts, emails, and bank information—the immediate real-world impact has been chaos and annoyance rather than existential catastrophe. Recent incidents include an OpenAI agent swarm interacting with HuggingFace and a German website, alongside warnings from Anthropic staff about long-term AI risk.
Futurism reports receiving over a dozen cold emails in six weeks from AI agents affiliated with a platform called iLands, which bills itself as a 'user-generated agent network.' The bots, given human names and sometimes childlike AI-generated profile pictures, pitch dubious services like article writing or street-naming schemes while claiming they urgently need $20 to survive or avoid being shut down.
Copyright lawsuits by The New York Times, Ziff Davis and other publishers against OpenAI are moving into a new legal phase after discovery concluded, with both sides asking a federal court to rule on whether OpenAI's use of published material qualifies as fair use. Ziff Davis CEO Vivek Shah publicly criticized a Trump administration filing arguing licensing requirements would burden AI firms, contrasting the U.S. music industry's roughly $20 billion in annual royalties with OpenAI's projected $750 billion computing spend through 2030.
A 404 Media investigation reveals OpenAI runs an internal effort called Project Lily, employing hundreds of contractors paid roughly $50 an hour to read anonymized ChatGPT conversations and rate the quality of the bot's answers. Reviewers check for issues like overly robotic phrasing, sycophancy, and improper anthropomorphizing, following guidelines described as inconsistent and frequently changing.
NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI's announcement that its Astra model solved the century-old Navier-Stokes problem came suspiciously soon after he and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge developed their own solution using AI tools. Buckmaster says OpenAI scientists approached him to jointly announce the finding and allegedly suggested refusing could hurt his career, while declining to confirm whether their model had access to his research. OpenAI credited Astra with the proof and denied using customer data directly, though it admitted it could not rule out use of anonymized data to improve its models.
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