Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged paywall bypass
The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the companies scraped their journalism while bypassing paywalls. The complaint also alleges that the resulting models substitute for articles, reduce tra...
OpenRouter lists GPT-6 Astra with million-token context
OpenRouter listed GPT-6 Astra on September 4, offering an OpenAI-compatible API route to the model. The listing describes a 1,050,000-token context window, support for files and function calling, and prices of $10 per million inpu...
Liquid sidechain pauses after reported 4,000 BTC withdrawal
Liquid says purported white-hat hackers withdrew about 4,000 BTC, valued in its statement at roughly $320 million, from the Liquid Federation wallet. The company says the funds left through the SideSwap Peg-out Authorization Key, ...
Nigeria opens antitrust probe into Uber's abrupt exit
Nigeria's antitrust commission said it is probing Uber Technologies' abrupt exit from the country after the ride-hailing platform shut down last week without prior notice to users. The supplied summary does not state why Uber exit...
Amazon Air plane overruns Miami runway, grounding flights
An Amazon Air plane operated by 21 Air overran a runway while landing at Miami International Airport around 2 p.m. local time Sept. 6, striking vehicles and prompting flight groundings, according to The Verge. The Boeing 767-300 d...
AI reduces Kenya's overseas essay-writing gig work, report says
The New York Times reports that AI has sharply reduced work in Kenya's essay-writing industry, which at its peak paid more than 40,000 people in Nairobi to complete assignments for overseas students. The report describes fewer rou...

