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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
OpenAI says an internal model “significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra” solved the Navier-Stokes problem using 10K concurrent agents working for 88 hours — OpenAI says its AI has solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, a potentially historic breakthrough shadowed …
More: New York Times, New Scientist, Scientific American, Anima on AI, Neowin, RuntimeWire, TBPN, Newser, and The Deep View
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Forums: r/accelerate, r/antiai, r/neoliberal, r/neoliberal, r/Innovation, r/technology, and r/aiwars
| Joseph Howlett / Scientific American: |
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge on Navier-Stokes and then used an internal model to solve it — A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM's Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997
More: Tristan Buckmaster, Financial Times, Quartz, Business Insider, and AIM
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says, while unlikely, it “cannot rule out that de-identified data derived” from Buckmaster's and Alpöge's use of its products helped improve its models — Read the paper Link to Lean formalized proof — We're sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated VM in Meta's cloud, initially available in the US, with support coming soon for its AI glasses — Meta on Tuesday announced Muse, a personal AI agent built on the latest generation of models developed under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang.
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta's personal AI agent Muse is powered by Muse Spark 1.3 and is free for up to 100M tokens per week; users can get more compute via $20 and $100 monthly tiers — Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence agent designed to carry out tasks on a user's behalf …
More: New York Times
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta says Muse users can connect their apps to send emails, book travel, turn recipe Reels into grocery lists, make purchases thanks to Link by Stripe, and more — Less than two weeks after Meta agreed to a massive $18 billion multistate settlement in a lawsuit over social media's consumer harms …
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon says he is quitting the AI industry over fears that tech companies are racing to build systems they won't be able to control — Concerns are rising inside AI labs that competition is pushing tech companies to race toward self-improving models that risk spiraling out of human control
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| Evan Hubinger / @evanhub: |
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record ~972 vulnerabilities, bringing its total flaws patched in 2026 to 2,760, more than double from 2025 — Microsoft's patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold.| Reuters: |
The NSA, CISA, and FBI issue a joint advisory warning that Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, are conducting “industrial-scale” distillation campaigns — The U.S. government on Tuesday accused Chinese artificial intelligence companies of maliciously copying technology …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's first foldable will be called iPhone Duo, with prices starting at $2,000 for 256GB of storage and sales starting as early as October — Apple Inc. is set to debut a roughly $2,000 foldable iPhone Duo on Wednesday as part of a wide-ranging product event, which kicks off at 10 a.m. local time from Cupertino, California.
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Apple Post, and Gizmodo
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5, which it says cuts image generation latency by up to 50% vs. Images 2.0, and adds a Sketch feature for drawing in ChatGPT — OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday, the company shared first with Axios. … - The new model can generate images up to 50 percent faster, OpenAI says.
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| Brian O'Donovan / RTÉ: |
Ireland's media watchdog investigates X over concerns about age assurance measures and parental controls, the first formal probe under the Online Safety Code — The media regulator Coimisiún na Meán has opened an investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X amid concerns … | Samantha Oltman / Bloomberg: |
AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May, and says its run-rate revenue grew from $492M in May to ~$900M — Artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc. has raised $2 billion in a new round of funding that vaulted its valuation to $48 billion.
More: Cognition, SiliconANGLE, Seeking Alpha, and Reuters
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LinkedIn: Rob Scales and Oscar Rivera
| Google: |
Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas, a 1PB dataset of predicted molecular effects for all ~9B possible single-letter DNA changes in the human genome — AlphaGenome Atlas is the most comprehensive catalogue of how genetic mutations affect molecular biology. — VP Science, Google DeepMind & Chief Scientist, Google Cloud
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Forums: Hacker News, r/science, r/singularity, and r/Bard
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Source: Anthropic is severing ties with the Information Technology Industry Council after the tech industry trade group opposed three export control measures — Anthropic is severing ties with the Information Technology Industry Council, an industry advocacy group, over legislation … | Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Qualcomm announces a data center infrastructure partnership with AWS, as part of which it issued warrants to Amazon to acquire $4B worth of Qualcomm's stock — Qualcomm shares rose 4% on Tuesday after the company announced a data center infrastructure partnership with Amazon Web Services …
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| Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Analysis: from 2019 to 2025, gains in pretraining compute efficiency came mostly from data improvements rather than model improvements — Breaking down 6 years of pretraining progress into data vs model improvements — How much of the rapid progress in AI that we've seen over the last few years 1 …
X: @dwarkesh_sp, @sarahookr, @arimorcos, and @dorialexander
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
In an expanded class action lawsuit, a group of Claude subscribers says Anthropic deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier — Anthropic says power users are key to its business — it's prioritized them even when it means cutting off other popular applications, like OpenClaw.
More: The New Stack
| Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
Block says it has submitted an application to US regulators to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank called Builders Bank & Trust — The financial technology company is seeking to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank — Block wants to build a bank.| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Chime agrees to acquire longtime banking partner Stride Bank for $590M; Stride will become Chime Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary; CHYM jumps 8.5%+ after hours — Chime Financial Inc. struck a deal to buy Stride Bank for $590 million in cash, snapping up its longtime partner as the fintech streamlines its operations.
More: The Information, PYMNTS, American Banker, Chime, Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, and Barron's Online. X: @iankar_
| The Information: |
Sources: China Securities Regulatory Commission is informally tightening IPO approvals for humanoid startups after a volatile debut by industry leader Unitree — Chinese regulators are tightening the approval for humanoid startups seeking to go public after a volatile debut … | Wall Street Journal: |
Over 10 US states have rolled back tech giants' tax breaks, which top $1B/year in some states, as many others propose similar bills amid a data center backlash — Amazon, Meta and Google risk losing decadeslong exemptions due to a backlash against their facilities| Clare Armstrong / ABC: |
Australia proposes a “My Feed, My Way” initiative requiring social platforms to send users a notification asking them to opt in or out of algorithmic content — In short: — The federal government's proposed digital duty of care could let Australians opt in or out of algorithmically recommended social media content.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Ramp is in early talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$60B valuation, up from $750M at a $44B valuation in June; founded in 2019, Ramp has raised $3B to date — Ramp is in early talks with investors for a new round of funding at a roughly $60 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the efforts … Sponsor Posts
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