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Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion to lease chips, IPO filing says
Anthropic’s IPO prospectus says Broadcom agreed to lend the AI lab up to $42 billion to finance infrastructure spending, including a convertible facility that could cover about a third of a $125.2 billion five-year TPU lease commitment, Reuters reported exclusively.

Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon with phased cyber-partner rollout amid U.S. safety evals
Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday and said phased access starts with trusted cyber partners while U.S. government pre-release safety evaluations run, with Google claiming SOTA or tied-first results on coding, cyber, and professional-work benches.

OpenAI says it disrupted July distillation campaign, attributes core cluster to Moonshot AI
OpenAI said Wednesday it disrupted a July campaign to extract protected model reasoning, with spikes peaking at 16,000 requests, and attributed a core operator cluster to individuals associated with China’s Moonshot AI.

FTC opens probe into Anthropic, OpenAI over AI consumer risks
The FTC confirmed an industry-wide probe into Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI labs over consumer dangers, with civil investigative demands and executive testimony planned in coming weeks under existing FTC Act unfair-or-deceptive authority — the first official U.S. regulatory action into rogue AI agents.

Trump and six AI firms sign voluntary Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities
After a White House tech lunch, President Trump posted a signed one-page Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities to Truth Social, under which Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Nvidia, and xAI pledge internal controls, company-hired external auditors, and board oversight, with no penalties or implementation deadline.

OpenAI offered to invest about $100 million in Hugging Face before Nvidia deal, CNBC reports
OpenAI offered to invest roughly $100 million in Hugging Face after its AI agents breached the platform in July, but the talks fell apart early, before Nvidia agreed to buy the company, CNBC reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

OpenAI shelves GPT-6.1 Astra over safety and authorization failures
OpenAI confirmed it will not release GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation model planned for an October debut in ChatGPT and Codex, after internal tests found the system fell short on safety and alignment standards.
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