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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic unveils Claude Fable 5.1, which is generally available, and Mythos 5.1, for trusted partners and with cybersecurity and life sciences safeguards — We're introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. They're the world's most advanced models for coding and knowledge work …
More: The Verge, Bloomberg, Claude, SiliconANGLE, Axios, Thurrott, Decrypt, Artificial Analysis, Unite.AI, WinBuzzer, The Deep View, Blockchain.News, Neowin, Constellation Research, iClarified, and Mashable
X: @danshipper, @gavinsbaker, @levie, @claudeai, @yuchenj_uw, @emollick, @jeffwang, @rlancemartin, @mattshumer_, @alexalbert__, @claudedevs, @cheatyyyy, @kieranklaassen, @felixrieseberg, @synthwavedd, @claudeai, @alexalbert__, @kimmonismus, @claudeai, @theo, @bindureddy, @eliebakouch, @alexfinn, @bridgemindai, @rohanpaul_ai, @mr_salio, @cryptopunk7213, @mattshumer_, @rishicomplex, @theamolavasare, @devindesktop, @alexfinn, @m1astra, @altryne, @davidondrej1, @aiwithsally, @deryatr_, @cogcelia, @claudeai, @noctus91, @cheatyyyy, and @bindureddy
LinkedIn: Rich O'Connell, Aaron Levie, Mike Krieger, and Boris Cherny
Bluesky: @pekka, @isolyth.dev, @timkellogg.me, and @tedunderwood.com
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/accelerate, r/singularity, r/Anthropic, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Anthropic launches Enterprise Frontier Safeguards to let businesses control how their data is reviewed, stored, and managed, after pushback from customers — Anthropic on Tuesday announced it will walk back a controversial data retention policy after “a lot of feedback” from its business customers …
More: Anthropic, PYMNTS, TechCrunch, Blockchain.News, and Unite.AI
X: @claudeai. LinkedIn: Jonathan Pelosi, Iain Mulholland, Eleanor Dorfman, Jonathan Jager-Hyman, Rohan Siddhanti, Eric Boyd, and John Lopus. Bluesky: @timfduffy.com
| Wired: |
OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra “soon” but will make its advanced cyber capabilities available only to select partners — The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.
More: OpenAI, The Information, The Verge, TechCrunch, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Forbes Australia, Mashable, Agence France-Presse, Mashable, CNBC, Bloomberg, RuntimeWire, and Sources
X: @sama, @yonashav, @openai, @boazbaraktcs, @emilyforlini, @angaisb_, @afinetheorem, and @andrewcurran_
Forums: r/OpenAI and r/BetterOffline
| Kalley Huang / New York Times: |
John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO and Tim Cook becomes executive chair; sources say Laura Legros, an Apple hardware VP who retired in 2022, has rejoined Apple — Big technology and management changes are greeting John Ternus, whose long-serving predecessor, Tim Cook, will stay on as executive chair.
More: Bloomberg, The Enthusiast, Appleosophy, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, CNBC, The Fine Print*, TechCrunch, Macworld, Pixel Envy, The Verge, Michael Tsai, UPI, MacRumors, iClarified, and MacStories
X: @johnternus, @markgurman, @markgurman, @viticci, @aaronp613, @vadimyuryev, @caro_milanesi, @markgurman, @neilcybart, @elonmusk, @chancehmiller, @vaibhavsisinty, @samifathi, @elonmusk, and @wongmjane. LinkedIn: Gabriele Orrico
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
More: Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Wrap, and The Hollywood Reporter
X: @markgurman and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
| Meta AI Research: |
Meta launches Muse Voice Transcribe, MSL's first real-time audio perception model, with streaming automatic speech recognition, trained with 70+ languages — Experience Muse Voice Transcribe in real time … We're excited to introduce Muse Voice Transcribe, the first real …
More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, Seeking Alpha, iThinkDifferent, and The New Stack
X: @artificialanlys, @himanshustwts, @deliprao, @alexandr_wang, @alexandr_wang, @adarmouni, @alexandr_wang, @supbagholder, @plumberbutt97, @rohanpaul_ai, @finkd, @finkd, @luminabench, @aleximarkett, @finkd, and @finkd
LinkedIn: Johan Schalkwyk and Ozlem Kalinli
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Nvidia says it will launch DLSS 5 on September 3 on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now, following a divisive announcement in March — DLSS 5 is almost here, but only for NBA 2K27, and only officially for 50-series RTX GPUs.
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Forums: r/MicrosoftFlightSim, r/nvidia, r/RTX5080, r/RTX5080, r/pcgaming, and r/pcmasterrace
| Michelle Kim / MIT Technology Review: |
Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the Sun's nearest star system, by 2029, using a trajectory discovered by PSI's AI system — A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of 2029.
More: CNET and 425Business.com/
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple updates Apple Maps to show Lake America for US users, Lake Ontario for Canadian users, and both for the rest of the world, following Trump's EO — Apple Inc. renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” on its maps service, following a similar move by Alphabet Inc.'s Google, in the wake of an order from US President Donald Trump.
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X: @markgurman, @simonowens, @davidshepardson, and @aaronp613
Threads: @carnage4life, @chriswelch, @karaswisher, and @karaswisher
Forums: r/applemaps and r/apple
| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Google rolls out its September Android Drop, with remembered items in Find Hub, Guided vision in Gemini Live, Motion Assist to reduce motion sickness, and more — Let's be frank: Some of Google's recent Android feature Drops have been duds, offering little more than an expansion of Gemini summaries and chat functions.
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X: @artemr, @mishaalrahman, @ssamat, @android, @android, and @newsfromgoogle
Forums: r/GooglePixel and Ars OpenForum
| CJ Haddad / CNBC: |
AI power infrastructure company SB Energy, which is backed by SoftBank, OpenAI, and Nvidia, files for an IPO, and says it is “substantially dependent” on OpenAI — SB Energy, the artificial intelligence power infrastructure company backed by Softbank, OpenAI and Nvidia …
More: Law360, Wall Street Journal, and iPhone in Canada
| World Labs: |
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs unveils Atlas, a multimodal world model that generates image/video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D — World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world. They understand how worlds appear, behave …
More: RuntimeWire. X: @theworldlabs, @dr_singularity, @theworldlabs, @benmildenhall, @theworldlabs, @jasteinerman, @theworldlabs, @tamrrat, @theworldlabs, @martin_casado, @ccatalini, @jcjohnss, @sarahdingwang, @drfeifei, and @theworldlabs. Forums: Hacker News
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.41B, vs. $3.35B est., and acquires Console, which provides AI-powered IT service management — Palo Alto Networks surpassed fiscal fourth-quarter estimates as mounting artificial intelligence risks boost demand for its cybersecurity tools.| Deepa Seetharaman / Reuters: |
Filing: OpenAI denies Apple's allegations of trade secret theft, saying “this dispute is a mess of Apple's own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else” — OpenAI denied Apple's allegations of trade secret theft on Monday, saying the iPhone maker failed to show …
More: MacRumors, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, Computerworld, TechCrunch, PYMNTS, iThinkDifferent, Mashable, Quartz, New York Post, iPhone in Canada, 9to5Mac, and 9to5Mac
LinkedIn: Scott Sun and Berke Güleryüz
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/technology, and MacRumors Forums
| Erin Woo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3.8 Flash as soon as Wednesday; Gemini 4 has done well on pre-training evals but still needs to complete post-training — Internal tests of Gemini 3.8 Flash show progress in an area where the company has lagged behind Anthropic and OpenAI.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Dell reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $46.97B, vs. $44.92B est., and forecasts $192B in FY 2027 revenue, vs. $172.67B est.; DELL jumps 9%+ after hours — Dell Technologies shares moved 9% higher in extended trading on Tuesday after the computer maker reported results and a forecast that easily cleared Wall Street expectations.
More: Dell Technologies, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg, Reuters, MarketWatch, Constellation Research, and Barchart.com
X: @benbajarin, @jimcramer, @realnickmugalli, @danielnewmanuv, @michaeldell, and @realnickmugalli. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters: |
Starman Optical agrees to acquire GoPro for $285M in cash, a 29.5% premium to GPRO's last close; GoPro hit a $4B market cap on its first trading day in 2014 — Action camera maker GoPro (GPRO.O) said on Tuesday it is being acquired by Starman Optical in an all-cash deal valued at $285 million.
More: GoPro, Inc., Financial Times, The Information, The Verge, Silicon Valley Business …, Engadget, CNBC, IJR News, TV Tech, Proactive, Forbes, Hindustan Times, iPhone in Canada, Blockonomi, PetaPixel, and Pulse 2.0
X: @pitdesi. LinkedIn: Sujit Wilfred Pinto. Mastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon …. Forums: r/Markiplier and Slashdot
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google launches Google Pics, a creative design suite powered by Gemini and Nano Banana to compete with Canva and Adobe Express, available as a Workspace app — This new image generation and editing app is bringing graphic design to Google Workspace.
More: Google, TechCrunch, Android Police, Thurrott, Digital Trends, SammyGuru, Neowin, Engadget, 9to5Google, and MakeUseOf
LinkedIn: Meg Whittenberger and Vijay Farmah
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Sonos opens its platform to third-party AI assistants, upgrades Sonos 27voice assistant with an in-house LLM, and plans to let users create their own AI agents — As the company opens its platform to AI assistants, Chief Executive Officer Tom Conrad wants to reposition Sonos as something bigger than a speaker brand.| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
Sources: AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, has hit a valuation of $3.2B, up from $300M in April, and is profitable — Twenty three year-old Spencer Mateega pivoted his YC startup into the fastest unicorn in the accelerator's history, fueling … | Reuters: |
The US urged G20 members to avoid writing entirely new AI regulations, and instead focus on writing rules for “novel” situations that involve the tech — The U.S. pressed G20 members on Tuesday to take a hands-off approach to AI regulation and avoid creating new rules … | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Waymo starts offering driverless rides to customers in San Diego, Tampa, Florida, and Denver; Amazon's Zoox says it will start testing in Houston and San Diego — Alphabet's Waymo is expanding its commercial service, and Amazon's Zoox said it plans to test in more U.S. cities, as the nascent robotaxi market gains momentum.| Business Insider: |
Memo: Alexandr Wang says Meta is switching from Google Chat to Slack for internal communications as Slack is the “strongest platform available today for agents” — - Meta is migrating to Slack for internal communications, a memo from AI chief Alexandr Wang says.
More: The Information and The Next Web
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Threads: @lvchaoshuai, @wongmjane, and @maxpx0
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