**🎉 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.

Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping

🧠 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.

OpenAI says ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly users

💰 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.

Enterprise LLM Spend Hits $8.4B as Anthropic Tops OpenAI

🛡️ 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.

Protopia AI Gets $1.25M Contract from U.S. Air Force Phase II

🖼️ 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.

Grok Imagine, xAI’s new AI image and video generator, lets you make NSFW content

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