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Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following similar plays from Huawei and Moore Threads, as Chinese GPU makers try to break the dominance of Nvidia's CUDA (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article

Alibaba targets Nvidia’s dominant software ecosystem with open-source AI stack
The firm’s chip unit T-Head aims to lower migration barriers to Zhenwu AI computing architectures, following similar initiatives by Huawei and Moore Threads.

A police department in Texas that arrested a local resident for complaining on social media about their city’s contaminated water supply
💥 has been ordered closed after failing to prove it provided any benefit to the community.
State officials stepped in to investigate after Jennifer Combs spent a night in jail in May
after a post appeared on her Facebook page suggesting people were hospitalized by bacteria in the water pipes of Trinidad,
a municipality in Henderson co…

Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply

How many cases of prompt injection in legal cases are we unaware of because they succeeded?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/suspecting-court-of-using-ai-man-injected-prompts-in-filings-to-try-to-win-case…

James Pearce Jr. suspended eight games following offseason arrest

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-falcons-james-pearce-jr-suspended/

In a filing disputing state AGs' request for a temporary restraining order, Paramount argued its merger with WBD would increase theatrical motion picture output (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-slams-stat…

Paramount Slams States' Lawsuit Over Warner Bros. Merger
Paramount filed its opposition to the states' request for a temporary restraining order to pause the Warner Bros. merger.

Faulty AI use: Tennessee woman who was wrongly accused by #Fargo investigators and held in jail for months based on faulty artificial intelligence facial recognition evidence, has filed a $10 million civil rights lawsuit against the Fargo Police and the detective. #NorthDakota

Woman wrongly jailed for months files $10M civil rights case against Fargo police, detective
Angela Lipps' lawsuit details her arrest and months of incarceration following her identification as a suspect in a bank fraud case by an investigator who relied on AI facial recognition.

Tony Romo’s major endorsement in jeopardy as brand goes quiet amid CBS leave https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/tony-romo-sponsor-silence-arrest/f4967c03223a0258d52983ef

The BBC asked a U.S. court for help in getting documents and testimony from members of Donald Trump’s family in connection with his $10-billion defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster, a court document showed.
Lawyers for the BBC argued that Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump, Jr. have “personal knowledge” and likely have records relevant to elements of Trump’s claims against the broadcaster, according to a filing Friday in federal court in Florida.

Google adds third-party games store Aptoide to the Play Store for Android users in the US, following a judge's orders in the antitrust lawsuit with Epic (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0

Third-party app stores are rolling out in Google Play, but there's only one right now
Aptoide has become the first app store distributed inside Google Play under a judge's order.

Lions release CB Terrion Arnold following recent arrest on eight felony charges https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-release-cb-terrion-arnold-following-recent-arrest-on-eight-felony-charges