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September 1, 2026, 4:40 PM
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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 …
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 …
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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.
Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Under Tim Cook, Apple's market cap grew from less than $350B in 2011 to $4.6T, revenue went from $157B in FY 2012 to ~$477B in FY 2026, and shares rose 2,258%
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.

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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
In a Truth Social post, Trump endorses a US tax incentive for film and TV production; the MPA has worked with Jon Voight to push for a 20% credit on labor costs

Suhauna Hussain / Los Angeles Times:
California lawmakers approved a bill to create tax credits for local news organizations based on journalist headcount, sending it to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk

Kari McMahon / A Media Operator:
How publishers like Vox and Hearst are using AI “seller agents” to respond to RFPs and more, with help from adtech companies like Boostr and Raptive

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Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Perplexity launches Hybrid Compute, which splits a task between a frontier, cloud model and a local LLM to handle sensitive info, for all users of its Mac app
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Roku unveils its first self-branded OLED smart TVs starting at $999, in 55" and 65" 120Hz models, and $1,299 for a 144Hz model, sold exclusively via Amazon
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google raises the price of its Google TV Streamer by $50 to $150 in the US, as well as for “select” Nest cameras and doorbells, citing “rising component costs”
Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Anthropic has signed a $35B cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda; Nvidia will hold the lease on, and supply chips to, a Hut 8-built Texas data center
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