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Anthropic : Anthropic launches the Claude Frontier Academy with a $100M commitment to train 10K Frontier Deployed Engineers by 2028, starting with Accenture, Bain, others   —  The first-of-its-kind Academy trains Frontier Deployed Engineers using the same standard of skills as Anthropic's own engineers …

"And all at once, summer collapsed into fall…" – Oscar Wilde Congress certainly collapsed into fall this year. It lacked the usual mayhem of an imminent government shutdown for the first time in years. The government is usually only funded through September 30, the end of the federal fiscal year. Lawmakers solved that fiscal riddle early. So the beginning of fall in Congress is usually anything but enjoyable. Others are devouring cobbler, enjoying spiced pumpkin lattes and viewing leaves of amber. When a government shutdown looms, the infernality of summer continues to stew on Capitol Hill. Imagine simmering political temperatures mixed with boiling urban concrete and a soupçon of petrichor. That epitomizes the customary fall tension in the halls of Congress when lawmakers are on the precipice of a shutdown. But this year is different. TRUMP SIGNS GOVERNMENT FUNDING BILL, AVOIDING A SHUTDOWN AHEAD OF MIDTERMS No shutdown. That’s a good thing, considering last year’s 43-day s...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : Strands Labs, AWS's experimental agent-development project, unveils Strands Decider 2B, a free, open-source Jev competitor fine-tuned from an Alibaba Qwen base   —  The race to make AI agents cheaper and faster is moving beyond the models that write their answers.

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg : OpenAI says individuals associated with Moonshot AI played a significant role in a coordinated model-distillation campaign that began in early July   —  OpenAI accused its Chinese rival Moonshot AI of being responsible for a wide-scale effort to extract data from its GPT artificial intelligence systems …

Louisiana Republican Attorney General Liz Murrill is escalating her fight against abortion pills entering states that ban abortions through two lawsuits — one targeting the providers accused of distributing the drugs and another challenging the blue-state laws shielding them from prosecution. Murrill, along with Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, sued New York, California and Massachusetts at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, alleging their shield laws block cooperation with investigations into abortion-pill providers. The attorneys general also filed a separate lawsuit in Louisiana against more than 30 people and organizations accused of advertising, prescribing, dispensing or shipping abortion pills into their states. "This is drug dealing and it's illegal," Murrill told Fox News Digital. "And we're going to continue to do everything that we can to enforce the laws in our states." The two lawsuits, filed Wednes...

Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg : Document: SpaceXAI plans a unified subscription for Grok and X with four tiers, including a $100/month Ultra plan, an $8/month Lite plan, and a free offering   —  SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence unit of Elon Musk's SpaceX, is considering an overhaul of its subscription pricing options …