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| Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg: |
Trump attacks Dario Amodei, saying the only “guardrails” AI needs are a “STRONG AND SMART” president, and calls the idea that AI would destroy humanity a “HOAX” — President Donald Trump attacked Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei for urging …
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| MS NOW: |
Sources: Trump met privately with Sam Altman backstage at the GOP midterm convention, where they discussed AI and its growing power, at Altman's request — Altman, Elon Musk and Anthropic chief Dario Amodei all urged an artificial intelligence slowdown over the weekend.| Sam Altman / @sama: |
Sam Altman says “we welcome a federal framework” but “we do not believe we need to wait” for an antitrust exemption or a law to slow AI development responsibly — The world deserves confidence that American companies developing increasingly capable AI will act responsibly, especially as the trajectory of progress has steepened. Every frontier lab must deliver on this, and there is no reason any of us should come to work if we cannot. We welcome a federal fr...
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China's Foreign Ministry criticizes warnings about AI risks, saying “fearmongering, confrontation, and vicious competition ... serve the interests of no one” — China criticized calls from leading US technology executives to put the brakes on artificial intelligence development …
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| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
In its first statement on AI, China's Ministry of State Security warns AI poses risks to political and social security, like to cyber defenses and the military — Beijing signals growing concern over how rapid advances in technology could be used against the country
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple rolls out iOS 27, watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, visionOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, all with Siri AI — watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 also debut today. … Apple is now rolling out its iOS 27 update to compatible devices today, alongside the watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 updates.
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| Reuters: |
AI-linked stocks fell worldwide on Monday after industry leaders called for slowing development; the Philadelphia chip index fell 6%, NVDA 3%, AMD 4%, and MU 5% — AI-linked stocks plunged worldwide on Monday after leaders of the biggest artificial intelligence companies warned … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft publishes a 37-page Humanist AI Code of Conduct, which establishes that people matter more than AI, rejects pursuing legal personhood for AI, and more — Microsoft has created a ‘humanist AI code of conduct’ in response to safety concerns.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI bought Glass Imaging, which is developing AI-powered smartphone camera tech, in a deal valuing it at $300M+; it was valued at ~$100M last year — Glass Imaging, valued above $300 million in deal, was founded by former Apple employees — OpenAI quietly bought …
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| Jeremy Stern / Colossus: |
A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, based on interviews with him, his parents, and dozens of others, looking at his MMA training, AI pivot, management style, and more — A journey to the heart of history's largest nonterritorial empire — There they are. The Zuckerbergs. — Both in black slacks and plain shoes.
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| Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
Anthropic debuts Claude for Financial Advisors, with connectors to investment analytics and wealth-management tools from BlackRock, Addepar, Schwab, and others — AI lab Anthropic on Monday launched a set of tools for financial advisers, connecting its Claude chatbot to investment analytics …
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| The Information: |
Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton limit Fable use as Anthropic doesn't guarantee zero data retention; source: Palantir hasn't made Fable available via its software — As paranoia rises over whether Anthropic or OpenAI could learn from their customers' intellectual property …
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| Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: |
Temporal, which makes open-source software that helps apps, including AI agents, recover from failure, raised $550M led by Lightspeed at a $12.55B valuation — Temporal said on Monday it has raised $550 million in a late-stage funding round, more than doubling its valuation to $12.55 billion …
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| Adam Vjestica / The Shortcut: |
Valve says the Steam Frame is priced at $1,059 for the 256GB model and $1,299 for the 1TB version; both come with a copy of Half-Life: Alyx but no power supply — - 💰 The Steam Frame starts at $1,059 for the 256GB model — 📈 The 1TB version climbs to $1,299
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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| Felix Ng / Cointelegraph News: |
The US Senate digital assets subcommittee releases a revised “final offer” of the Clarity Act with Trump-backed ethics provisions, ahead of a September 15 vote — The 635-page revised proposal includes Trump-backed ethics provisions and comes just two days before a key procedural vote.| Federico Maccioni / Reuters: |
Riyadh-based BNPL startup Tabby raised a $233M Series F led by Blue Pool Capital at a $6.5B valuation, up from $4.5B after its share sale in October 2025 — Saudi Arabia-headquartered fintech Tabby has raised $233 million from existing investors at a valuation of $6.5 billion, it said on Monday …
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| P.R. Venkat / Wall Street Journal: |
Z.ai says it plans to raise $5B+ to fund its AI investments, ~$2B via a share placement and ~$3.01B via zero-coupon convertible bonds, after raising $4B in July — The company plans to raise $2.0 billion through a share placement and another $3.01 billion via zero-coupon convertible bonds| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Internal OpenAI docs detail contractors evaluating anonymized prompts and chats to improve the models; model training is turned on by default for consumer plans — Humans are reading ChatGPT users' prompts to improve OpenAI's models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information …
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| John Reynolds / Tech.eu: |
Stockholm-based Tandem Health, which makes an AI copilot that generates medical notes during consultations, raised a $100M Series B led by Scaleup Europe Fund — The funding will be used for European expansion, driving up its customer base, and expanding to “an AI-native clinic operating system”.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube launch the Streaming Access and Choice Alliance, led by Big Tech trade group TechNet, to advocate for “technology-neutral policies” — Three of the biggest names in streaming on Monday announced the formation of a new policy coalition to support their positions on key issues.
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| Politico: |
Docs: the European Commission plans to propose an EU KIDS Act on Thursday to set a minimum age for social media, video platforms, games, AI chatbots, and more — BRUSSELS — The European Commission will propose new rules to restrict minors' access to social media and video-sharing platforms …
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| Zhiye Liu / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia announces the RTX Pro 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition, offering comparable specs to the RTX 5090 but with 84GB of GDDR7 memory, vs. RTX 5090's 32GB — The GeForce RTX 5090 is undeniably one of the best graphics cards money can buy. Banking on the fact that many already use it for AI …
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| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Filing: X and SpaceXAI move to dismiss their federal antitrust lawsuit in Texas against Apple, resolving accusations of Apple monopolizing smartphone markets — Elon Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI <SPCX.O> said on Monday they have resolved their lawsuit in federal court in Texas …
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| Shubhangi Goel / Business Insider: |
Nuance Labs, which builds low-latency AI avatars that can have face-to-face conversations, raised a $50M Series A led by Lightspeed, with Nvidia participating — A startup that's trying to make AI models better conversationalists with more emotional intelligence has just raised $50 million.Sponsor Posts
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