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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: PCWorld, Thurrott, Axios, The New Stack, Decrypt, 9to5Mac, Claude, Neowin, Constellation Research, iClarified, and Unite.AI
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LinkedIn: Rich O'Connell, Mike Krieger, Boris Cherny, and Aaron Levie
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic says Fable 5.1 sets new standards on coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks, and can fix the root causes of software issues — It's only the first day of September 2026, but the month and fall season are already off to the races in AI land …
More: MacRumors and The Decoder
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic says Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads and up to 45% less for highly agentic work — Anthropic PBC is releasing a new version of its powerful Fable artificial intelligence model that it says is better at coding and science tasks … | 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, AppleInsider, The Enthusiast, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Macworld, CNBC, The Fine Print*, The Verge, Michael Tsai, MacRumors, iClarified, UPI, Moneycontrol, MacStories, The Verge, San Francisco Examiner, and The Mac Observer
X: @johnternus, @markgurman, @caro_milanesi, @markgurman, @markgurman, @viticci, @aaronp613, @vadimyuryev, @neilcybart, @elonmusk, @chancehmiller, @samifathi, @elonmusk, and @wongmjane. LinkedIn: Gabriele Orrico
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
More: Wall Street Journal, Barron's Online, Proactive, PetaPixel, TechCrunch, TechRadar, Hindustan Times, and 9to5Mac. X: @jasminecoded_
| Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
| 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.
More: NVIDIA, PC Gamer, NVIDIA GeForce on YouTube, PCWorld, Thurrott, Mashable, Hardcore Gamer, Tom's Hardware, Engadget, Moneycontrol, VICE, Metro.co.uk, IGN, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, T3, Kotaku, Deal N Tech, Club386, Tom's Guide, PCMag, Neowin, Polygon.com, GamesBeat, GamesRadar, Digital Trends, Tech4Gamers, VideoCardz.com, The Shortcut, and KitGuru
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Forums: r/MicrosoftFlightSim, r/nvidia, r/RTX5080, r/RTX5080, r/pcgaming, and r/pcmasterrace
| 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 …
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LinkedIn: Scott Sun and Berke Güleryüz
Forums: r/OpenAI and MacRumors Forums
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Mozilla launches built-in ad blocking for Firefox on iOS, using Apple's WebKit Content Blocker and the EasyList filter to block third-party ads and trackers — Mozilla is using Apple's WebKit Content Blocker technology and the EasyList filter to block ads in Firefox.| 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, @theworldlabs, @theworldlabs, @theworldlabs, @theworldlabs, @drfeifei, and @theworldlabs. Forums: Hacker News
| 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.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI says Astra is its first model to reach its “Critical” cyber threshold and warns safeguards may mistakenly flag legitimate activity as cyber misuse — OpenAI said Tuesday that it plans to release its latest model — Astra — soon, but its most advanced cybersecurity features … | 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.| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Dyson unveils the $499 CameraJet, an AI-powered toothbrush with a 100K-pixel macro lens that scans at 28 images per second and is trained on nearly 470K images — Dyson Ltd. introduced a $499 toothbrush that uses artificial intelligence and a built-in camera to give real-time feedback …
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LinkedIn: Nathan Brown, Chris Howard, Amy Johnson, and Hao Yi Gan
| Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: |
PSI, which aims to use AI “to industrialize the discovery of new physics” including cracking interstellar travel, emerges from stealth with a $58M seed — AI is best known for transforming coding. Now, one startup is making the case for physics.| 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: 9to5Mac and The New Stack
| 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.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft confirms it has restored core Exchange Online functionality, including mail flow and search, after a day-long outage from around 11:30AM ET on Monday — Snow day? Microsoft on Monday confirmed a widespread, multi-hour outage affecting Outlook users, leading to email delays and failures …
More: Fast Company and Türkiye Today
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Savvy Games Group CEO Brian Ward, who oversaw the Saudi Arabian government's $38B investment in the video game industry since 2021, is stepping down — Savvy Games Group Chief Executive Officer Brian Ward, who oversaw the Saudi Arabian government's $38 billion investment in the video-game industry … | 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 10% higher in extended trading on Tuesday after the computer maker reported results and a forecast that easily cleared Wall Street expectations.| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Wafer, which makes AI agents that optimize open-source models for a business's workload, raised a $40M Series A, a source says at a $200M+ valuation — Developers and chip designers are increasingly upbeat about the benefits of using AI to supercharge the process of designing and optimizing AI chips … | 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.
More: Waymo, Reuters, TechCrunch, Engadget, Quartz, Houston Business Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Electrek, The Last Driver License Holder, Mashable, SFist, and Bloomberg. LinkedIn: Rick Palacio
| Alex Harring / CNBC: |
LLM Token Expenditure Index: average cost per million tokens has fallen to 97 cents, part of a sharp months-long decline since hitting a high of $2.07 on May 28 — A closely followed measure of artificial intelligence token prices touched fresh lows this week, the latest sign of deflating prices … | 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.| 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 Next Web. X: @charlesrollet1, @gergelyorosz, @gergelyorosz, @elenarunsnyc, @gergelyorosz, @gergelyorosz, @gergelyorosz, @gergelyorosz, and @gergelyorosz
Threads: @lvchaoshuai, @wongmjane, and @maxpx0
| 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 …
LinkedIn: Anna Tong
| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
John Deere is testing JD, an AI assistant for farmers, to help with best practices and find trends based on farmers' “field, machine, and operational data” — The new ‘JD’ AI uses farmers' own data to answer questions about their operations and equipment.
More: Phandroid, Ground Level AI, and Bloomberg
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