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Bytes to Insights: Weekly News Digest for the Week of August 24, 2025

Here’s a summary of significant news and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence for the week of August 24th, 2025:

The GSA’s ultra-low-cost AI deals drew fresh attention and protests this week: OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Anthropic’s Claude priced at $1 per agency, with Google’s Gemini reportedly at $0.47 per agency. These One Gov agreements aim to seed broad federal usage while vendors pursue longer-term contracts.

Anthropic has formed a National Security & Public Sector Advisory Council and introduced Claude Gov, following a $200M Pentagon prototyping award. Initial access is being offered to agencies for $1.

Anthropic published an August 2025 brief detailing how agentic AI is being used directly in sophisticated cyberattacks, arguing that the barrier to high-end cybercrime is falling.

Under the EU AI Act timeline, governance rules and obligations for general-purpose AI models became applicable on August 2, 2025, with full applicability due on August 2, 2026. This week’s discourse continued to frame industry readiness against the law’s phased milestones.

At Hot Chips (Aug 24), NVIDIA highlighted rack-scale data center design for AI inference/networking, underscoring the rapid build-out of AI infrastructure heading into the fall product cycle.

In creative AI, coverage this week highlighted Tencent’s Hunyuan “Video-Foley” research (Aug 28) that syncs lifelike audio to generated video—part of a broader surge in multimodal tooling.

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