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September 7, 2026, 12:30 PM

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Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk:
Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after “purported white-hat hackers” withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet  —  worth millions of dollars were withdrawn from a settlement network used by cryptocurrency exchanges …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Tim Cook's pay package indicates he will remain very active at Apple; sources: Apple's plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave  —  Also: The latest on Apple's big Sept. 9 event.  —  The early signs out of Cupertino are that Tim Cook will still loom large at Apple.
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Insilico, which uses AI to accelerate drug discovery, says early data shows rentosertib, a drug whose structure was generated with AI's help, could slow aging  —  Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition.
The Guardian:
Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns  —  Matt Clifford forced to stand down amid disquiet from senior MPs over his new full-time job at AI company
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase:
An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more  —  I did not expect to be back here so soon with more OpenAI agent swarm coverage.  —  And yet, here we are.
Stephen Council / Business Insider:
A look at Anthropic's Labs team, a ~20-person group led by cofounder Ben Mann that acts as an internal startup incubator for developing flagship products  —  Inside Anthropic, an unorthodox group can take a lot of credit for the AI company's meteoric rise.  —  The company's Labs team …
Forums: r/ClaudeAI
Simon Foy / Financial Times:
Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy  —  Graduates and interns hoping to join Swiss bank must show they can use the technology to improve outcomes and efficiency
Cal Newport / New York Times:
How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims  —  As the tech elite prepares to make billions from the A.I. revolution, the public mood about this technology has taken a dark turn.
OpenAI:
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace  —  In mid-2023, within the “RLSlow” research project, we saw the first results that gave us confidence that we will be able to scale …
Bloomberg:
Sources: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the development of an AI model for real-time spatial video, which could launch as soon as next month  —  ByteDance Ltd. is readying an AI model geared for real-time spatial video generation, taking on Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc …
Financial Times:
A look at the 2019 US criminal case against Huawei, with an upcoming trial over racketeering charges, including sanctions evasion and corporate espionage  —  Five years after finance chief Meng Wanzhou's release from detention in Canada, the company itself is going on trial

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