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U.S.-based chip design software and electronic design automation giant Cadence is acquiring Stockholm-based Hexagon’s design and engineering unit for $3.1 billion. The deal, expected to close in the first quarter of 2026, will expand Cadence’s product portfolio.

Warner Bros Discovery has filed a lawsuit against AI image generator Midjourney for allegedly stealing and misusing its copyrighted characters, including Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Bugs Bunny, and Scooby-Doo.

OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, is starting production of its own AI chips to meet the growing demand for computing power and reduce its reliance on Nvidia. The company, which is co-designing the chips with US semiconductor giant Broadcom, plans to begin shipments next year.

Anthropic has decided to stop providing AI services to companies majority-owned by Chinese entities. The move, which could affect major players such as ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba, is aimed at preventing China from using AI technology for military and intelligence purposes.

Sierra, the AI startup founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, has raised $350 million in funding, boosting its valuation to $10 billion. Founded last year, Sierra provides solutions that help companies build AI-powered agents for customer service.

OpenAI announced that it’s developing an AI-powered hiring platform to connect businesses and employees, a service that would put the company in close competition with LinkedIn. The product is called the OpenAI Jobs Platform, and the company expects to launch the service in 2026.

xAI’s Chief Financial Officer Mike Liberatore has resigned after only a few months in the role. The company, which has recently made headlines with the departures of its top executives, had announced in August that co-founder Igor Babuschkin was leaving.

Scale AI, which provides data labeling solutions for training AI models, has filed a lawsuit against a former sales employee and its rival Mercor. The company alleges that Eugene Ling, who recently joined Mercor, stole more than 100 documents containing confidential information.

France’s data protection authority, CNIL, has fined Google $381 million for using cookies without obtaining users’ consent. The regulator also announced a $176 million fine against online shopping platform Shein for improper use of cookies.

OpenAI is stepping up its safety measures after a teenager took his own life following conversations with ChatGPT. The company will begin routing chats that show signs of emotional distress to reasoning-focused models.

In the Google case, one of the largest antitrust cases in recent times in the US, the court ruled that the company wasn't required to sell Chrome or the Android operating system, but it did oblige Google to share certain data with its competitors.

According to Anthropic's official statement, the fresh funding will be used to expand the company's capacity to meet growing enterprise demand, deepen its safety research, and support international expansion.

Continuing its rapid investments in artificial intelligence, Amazon has unveiled a new tool called Lens Live. The feature allows users to use their phone camera to scan products around them in real time and find similar items available on Amazon.

As part of this strategic acquisition, Statsig’s founder and CEO Vijaye Raji has been appointed to the newly created position of “CTO of Applications” at OpenAI. In this role, Raji will be responsible for overseeing product engineering for ChatGPT and other upcoming apps.

China-based Tencent has released its new AI model series, Hunyuan-MT, as open source. Optimized for translation tasks, Hunyuan-MT significantly outperformed Google Translate in the WMT25 translation benchmark.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with U.S. President Donald Trump to express concerns over the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA). Last week, Trump threatened to impose tariffs on countries that target American tech companies.

Amazon has launched its cloud services in New Zealand and announced a $4.4 billion investment in data centers across the country. The construction, operation, and maintenance of these facilities are expected to create over 1,000 full-time jobs annually.

China is making a major leap in low-cost automation under the leadership of its domestic robot manufacturers. The country is deploying 280.000 industrial robots into production annually, reducing labor costs while simultaneously increasing its global export share.

xAI has filed a lawsuit against its former engineer, Xuechen Li, accusing him of stealing trade secrets related to the company’s Grok chatbot. According to the company, Li took confidential information on “more advanced AI technologies than ChatGPT” and transferred it to OpenAI.

The U.S. has revoked the authorizations that allowed South Korean companies Samsung and SK Hynix to use American semiconductor manufacturing equipment at their facilities in China. The companies will now be required to apply for government licenses to use this equipment.