Monthly Archives: August 2025

‘Persistent Trade Imbalances’ at Center of Trump’s Latest Tariff Directive

President Trump signs a new executive order imposing tariffs of up to 41% on over 80 countries, citing trade deficits and lack of economic alignment.

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Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping

Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.

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OpenAI says ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly users

OpenAI’s consumer chatbot ChatGPT to hit a new milestone of 700M weekly users.

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Tesla awards Musk $29 billion in shares with prior pay package in limbo

The legal battle over Musk’s $56 billion 2018 pay package is before the Delaware Supreme Court.

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Lyft and China’s Baidu look to bring robotaxis to Europe next year

The companies want to launch the robotaxi services in Germany and the U.K. first, pending regulatory approval.

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Google removes over 50 DEI groups from a list of groups it helps fund

Google removed the name of 58 DEI groups from its list, including the Latino Leadership Alliance and the ACLU of Illinois.

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Legal AI startup Harvey hits $100 million in annual recurring revenue

Harvey launched in 2022 after the founders experimented with OpenAI’s large language model GPT-3, which came out before its viral AI chatbot, ChatGPT. 

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Spotify raises subscription prices

Spotify is raising prices for users in some international markets after a rough quarterly earnings report.

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Amazon shuts down Wondery podcast studio, cuts 110 jobs

Despite securing big names in the business, the company is now shifting its strategy in an effort to better compete with rivals like Spotify and YouTube.

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Baidu plans to expand its robotaxis to Europe with Lyft deal

Chinese tech giant Baidu is looking to expand its autonomous vehicle business globally through deals with Lyft and Uber.

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