Anthropic settlement sparks author payment complaints

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Anthropic delays IPO marketing until mid October, while Accel is reportedly in talks to lead a $1 billion funding round for Thinking Machines.

BYD develops in house chips as China localizes auto semiconductor production. OpenAI plans an AI misalignment incident reporting framework.

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