Monthly Archives: August 2025

Kleiner Perkins is having a very good week

With two IPOs this week alone, Kleiner Perkins partner Mamoon Hamid has reason to celebrate.

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Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s Access to Claude

OpenAI lost access to the Claude API this week after Anthropic claimed the company was violating its terms of service.

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A backlog at the Commerce Department is reportedly stalling Nvidia’s H20 chip licenses

News of a backlog at the U.S. federal department comes less than a week after national security experts urged the Trump administration to reverse its decision that allows Nvidia to export H20 chips to China.

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Tesla partly liable in Florida Autopilot trial, jury awards $329M in damages

The jury verdict is one of the first major legal decisions about driver assistance technology that has gone against Tesla. Both Elon Musk and Tesla have spent years making claims about Autopilot’s capabilities.

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Tesla must pay $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says

A jury in Florida determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 crash involving its Autopilot technology.

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Tesla partly liable in Florida Autopilot trial, jury awards $200M punitive damages

The jury verdict is one of the first major legal decisions about driver assistance technology that has gone against Tesla. Both Elon Musk and Tesla have spent years making claims about Autopilot’s capabilities.

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WIRED Roundup: ChatGPT Goes Full Demon Mode

On today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, our senior business editor joins us to talk Meta, brain aging, and ChatGPT’s recent dark turn.

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Google bets on STAN, an Indian social gaming platform

Google has backed STAN, an Indian social gaming mobile platform that connects gamers with creators, communities, and publishers.

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Crypto wobbles into August as Trump’s new tariffs trigger risk-off sentiment

Bitcoin showed relative strength, while crypto-linked stocks suffered deeper losses.

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Google has dropped more than 50 DEI-related organizations from its funding list

The dropped groups had mission statements that included the words “diversity, “equity,” “inclusion,” or “race,” “activism,” and “women.” 

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