**🎉 Today’s Tech & AI News Digest 🎉**
🤖 Perplexity Accused of Stealth Web Scraping
AI startup Perplexity has been accused of using stealth crawlers to scrape websites that have explicitly blocked AI scraping, raising industry concerns.
🧠 OpenAI Upgrades ChatGPT for Mental Health Detection
OpenAI is enhancing ChatGPT’s ability to detect mental or emotional distress, working with experts ahead of the expected GPT-5 launch.
https://www.theverge.com/news/718407/openai-chatgpt-mental-health-guardrails-break-reminders
🚀 ChatGPT Nears 700 Million Weekly Users
OpenAI’s ChatGPT continues its rapid growth, on track to reach 700 million weekly active users, marking a major milestone for consumer AI.
💰 Enterprise LLM Spend Surges as Anthropic Tops OpenAI
Enterprise spending on large language models has doubled to $8.4B, with Anthropic overtaking OpenAI in market leadership.
🛡️ Protopia AI Secures $1.25M U.S. Air Force Contract
Protopia AI receives a $1.25M SBIR contract from the U.S. Air Force to advance secure, AI-powered software development with privacy-enhancing tech.
🖼️ Qwen-Image: Advancing AI Text Rendering in Images
Qwen-Image, a new 20B MMDiT model, delivers major advances in AI-powered image editing and complex native text rendering.
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image/
🎬 Grok Imagine AI Generator Launches NSFW Capabilities
xAI’s Grok Imagine enables users to generate NSFW images and videos via its new AI-powered generator, embracing an unfiltered approach.
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