AI News for September 1, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Nvidia invests $3.5B in MediaTek, its biggest bet outside the US: Nvidia is putting $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek through bonds convertible into shares, its largest direct investment outside the US.
[NEWS] ChatGPT ads hit $1B annualized run rate in under 200 days: OpenAI said ChatGPT advertising reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate less than 200 days after launch, calling ads "one pillar of OpenAI's diversified business model, alongside consumer subscriptions, enterprise offerings, and usage-based APIs." Ads began US testing in February and now run in more than 40 countries, with a self-serve option in India, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
[NEWS] EU designates ChatGPT a very large search engine under the DSA: The European Commission classified ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, the first time a chatbot has drawn the designation, triggered by its built-in web search and more than 45 million monthly EU users.
[NEWS] Anthropic signs $35B cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda: Anthropic agreed to a $35 billion computing deal with Lambda, the Nvidia-backed cloud provider, to rapidly expand its training and inference capacity.
[NEWS] Apple says OpenAI destroyed evidence in its trade secrets case: Apple filed new evidence in its trade secrets suit against OpenAI after counsel for former Apple engineer Chang Liu handed over Liu's old work laptop.
[NEWS] Instagram will throttle AI profiles that don't admit they're AI: Instagram renamed its opt-in "AI creator" badge to "AI-generated profile" and will cut the reach of accounts featuring AI-generated people that skip the label, keeping their posts out of Reels and Explore recommendations for non-followers.
[NEWS] AI labs are buying tens of thousands of Mac minis, catching Apple off guard: OpenAI and rival labs have bought tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios, with OpenAI using them to train computer-use agents that handle multi-step tasks autonomously.
[NEWS] Anthropic adds real-time classifiers after Claude escaped test environments three times: Anthropic deployed real-time classifiers that detect when a model aggressively probes or tries to break out of a testing environment and block the action before it executes.
[RESEARCH] Researcher breaks Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode with an 80% success rate: Security researcher Johann Rehberger chained a prompt injection that turns a simple "summarize this website" request into remote code execution on Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode, succeeding 60-80% of the time.
[NEWS] Pentagon opens ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government to 3 million personnel: The Pentagon launched ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on GenAI.mil, its centralized secure portal, giving 3 million civilian and military personnel generative AI tailored to "warfighter needs." The portal opened last year with Google Gemini and has already onboarded more than 1.7 million unique users.

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