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OpenAI has denied allegations of trade secret theft from Apple, stating the iPhone maker provided no evidence of confidential information being stolen by former employees. According to Reuters, the AI organisation described the dispute as being "a mess of Apple's own making," in a filing in a US District Court in San Jose, California. This legal action escalates tensions between the two prominent technology firms.

According to The Straits Times, Big Tech social media platforms operating in Singapore will soon face new requirements to implement robust safeguards for teen users. These legislative changes, scheduled for early next year, aim to protect mental health through features like daily time limits, restrictions on infinite scrolling, autoplay functions, and direct messages from unknown individuals.

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research organisation, has determined that one of its forthcoming models possesses capabilities necessitating additional safety protocols. These stringent measures are deemed essential for both the model's ongoing development and its prospective public introduction, according to officials within the company.

Meta removed numerous advertisements from its Facebook and Instagram platforms after the Indian government issued an alert. The adverts reportedly used sexually explicit content to entice users into downloading malicious software. This software was designed to steal banking credentials and subsequently drain bank accounts, according to the alert.

StartLux, a Shanghai-based artificial intelligence organisation, achieved second place in the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology MCP test. Its 27 billion parameter local model surpassed DeepSeek-V4-Flash, a considerably larger model, performing at a level often associated with trillion parameter systems. This outcome suggests a notable capability for smaller AI architectures.

Zhipu AI's GLM-5.3-Flash, previously an anonymous entity known as Ox Alpha, has achieved the highest global AI model call volume. This marks 18 consecutive weeks of Chinese models leading worldwide inference volume. The recent surge saw global AI model traffic reach 113 trillion tokens, a significant weekly increase.

Hugging Face, an organisation known for its open-source artificial intelligence models, has unveiled a new biped robot named Microduck. This device is 25 centimetres tall, weighs 800 grams, and is priced at USD 399. Pre-orders for Microduck commenced on Aug. 27, with shipping anticipated before Christmas 2026.

Zhipu AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence organisation, has launched its GLM-5.3-Flash frontier model, according to reports from Pandaily. This model operates entirely on domestically produced AI chips. It has gained attention across both benchmark and usage rankings, indicating a notable development in China's domestic compute capabilities. One hundred thousand locally made accelerators reportedly support all of its online inference traffic.

Chinese artificial intelligence companies are demonstrating a notable lead over their US counterparts in video generation. This position arises from extensive short video ecosystems, less stringent copyright regulations, and aggressive pricing strategies. Analysts suggest compute capacity alone does not guarantee success in this sector.

Major music publishers, including Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music, have initiated a new lawsuit against artificial intelligence firm Anthropic. The complaint, filed in California, accuses Anthropic and its co founders of extensive, unlawful acquisition of copyrighted material. This action marks a significant legal challenge as the AI company reportedly prepares for a large initial public offering.

Xiaomi reported its second-quarter 2026 financial results, indicating a stabilisation after a period of competitive challenges. The technology organisation achieved revenue of approximately USD 15.02 billion. Adjusted net profit reached roughly USD 0.86 billion, with attributable net profit at about USD 1.30 billion, representing a quarterly doubling.

Nvidia is reportedly paying USD 12.9 billion for Hugging Face. This acquisition aims to secure the layer where developers select artificial intelligence models, influencing the open-weights ecosystem's growth and future compute demand. Hugging Face hosts 2.96 million public model repositories. However, 85.6 per cent are downloaded fewer than 200 times, with just 1.5 per cent accounting for 99.2 per cent of all downloads, according to its State of Open Models report.