Jensen Huang took a surprise call from President Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in LA, where the two dismissed fears of an AI takeover  —  Mr. Trump called Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, while Mr. Huang was onstage in Los Angeles and criticized calls to slow down and regulate A.I.

Apple says iCloud+ now includes Apple TV and Arcade at no extra charge in 100+ countries, plus Music Select, a set of ad-free radio stations, in some markets  —  In more than 100 countries, Apple has launched a new initiative that bundles Apple TV and Apple Arcade subscriptions into iCloud+, at no extra charge.

Google DeepMind AI Safety and Alignment researcher Bilal Chughtai publicly resigns, saying “I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all”  —  An AI researcher who recently resigned from Google DeepMind warned humanity is running out of time to prevent artificial intelligence …

Netherlands-based inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M+ Series A co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital, Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries  —  Samsung has backed a Dutch AI chipmaker in a $231 million funding round, amid a boom in investment in alternatives to Nvidia's graphic processing units.

Sources: ByteDance's H1 2026 net profit dropped by a single-digit percentage YoY to $20B and revenue rose ~30% to $120B; its 2025 revenue rose 29% to ~$200B  —  ByteDance's net profit in the first half of this year declined by a single-digit percentage to $20 billion, as the Chinese tech giant ramped …

Sources: Apple's H1 2027 plans include an iPhone 18e, an A20 iPhone 18, an A20 Pro iPhone Air 2, an OLED iPad Air, an A19 Pro MacBook Neo, and an M6 MacBook Air  —  Apple Inc. just launched some major new products, including the iPhone Duo, the iPhone 18 Pro line, AirPods 5 earbuds and fresh smartwatches.

Microsoft rolls out emergency fix for critical issues caused by its September Patch Tuesday update, which addressed ~1,000 vulnerabilities but introduced bugs  —  The out-of-band update fixes Remote Desktop, USB audio, and Hyper-V issues. … Microsoft has started rolling out an emergency …

Cybersecurity stocks were the top performers in the S&P 500 on Monday amid escalating AI fears; CrowdStrike rose 14%, Palo Alto Networks 13%, and Fortinet 9%  —  The software sector outperformed the chip sector to a historic degree in the face of escalating AI fears

OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans “are losing the ability to evaluate them” while humans rely more on AI to lead research  —  Dan Selsam is a current OpenAI capabilities researcher. (since 2022) He was my boss for a while. He doesn't have a twitter account but has made this public statement of his views on AI risk and sent it to me to share: Dan Selsam's Personal Statement on AI Risk: I have been working on AI for over ...

Vera Rubin NVL72 inference tests show up to 7x better token throughput per MW vs. Blackwell on a 1.6T DeepSeek model, above Huang's 3x claim for 1T-3T LLMs  —  Jensen Sandbagging Performance Again, 2x more Annual Profit Per GigaWatt, The More you Buy, The More you Earn, AgentX, InferenceX, Extreme Co-Design

Sources: OpenAI bought Glass Imaging, which is developing AI-powered smartphone camera tech, in a deal valuing it at $300M+, up from a ~$100M valuation in 2025  —  Glass Imaging, valued above $300 million in deal, was founded by former Apple employees  —  OpenAI quietly bought …

Rome-based Exein, which offers cybersecurity tools for connected devices including cars and home routers, raised $270M led by Headline at a $1.7B valuation  —  Rome-based company is developing a foundation model to protect billions of internet-connected devices, from robots to lightbulbs

New York State Assemblyman Alex Bores launches Who Decides, a nonprofit that raised $10M and aims to raise another $20M in 2027 to shape Democratic AI policy  —  Alex Bores, who lost a congressional primary contest that revolved around A.I. regulation, is trying to position himself at the center …

New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to $335M+  —  The artificial intelligence marketing startup Profound has raised $180 million at a $1.8 billion valuation in its Series D fundraising round …

MediaTek unveils the Dimensity 9600 Pro, its first phone SoC on TSMC's 2nm node, and the 3nm 9600M, with boosted AI performance, as it competes with Qualcomm  —  Taiwan's MediaTek (2454.TW) unveiled on Tuesday a new smartphone chip made using TSMC's (2330.TW) most advanced manufacturing technology …

Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid robot to safely work alongside humans without physical barriers by utilizing AI collision-avoidance software and new sensors  —  Agility Robotics Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a new humanoid that is designed to safely work in close proximity to people …

Google gives all of its engineers Claude Opus 5 access via Antigravity, and says “Gemini remains our primary and foundational model for internal development”  —  Googlers have some of the best perks in Silicon Valley, but there's one thing many of them have long been denied: access to Anthropic's Claude.

China tightens overseas travel controls for citizens via exit bans and fines in a sweeping new law, as Beijing moves to secure state secrets and advanced tech  —  President Xi Jinping steps up efforts to secure state secrets, advanced technology and highly skilled workers

HTC Vive Eagle smart glasses review: useful controls, lightweight, and focused on privacy, but inessential, expensive at $499+, and imaging needs to improve  —  HTC can't win on price, and can't win on the arguments. … Meta makes so much money that it can burn billions upon billions …

A look at iLands, a company that is essentially Fiverr for AI agents, whose bots email unsolicited and annoying pitches to people, usually for ~$25 services  —  Making sense of iLands, the company whose AI agents emailed me half a dozen times in two days offering to do my research.

A deep dive into on-device vs. data center inference for robots, including a primer on robot models, deployments, supply chains, the “network wall”, and more  —  Robot Models, Silicon & DRAM Efficiency, Jetson Thor vs. B300 TCO, Deployments, The Network Wall  —  Ivan Chiam, Gianluca, Zane Fong, and 3 others

Thoughts on AI labs' safety concerns: a coordinated slowdown may look like an antitrust conspiracy to limit output that would preserve frontier model margins  —  AI and antitrust, lockups and indexes, annuities, Montessori and sudden wealth syndrome.  —  P(doom)

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.

Steam Frame review: comfortable to wear and supports multiple ways to play games, but it doesn't feel like a finished product and has only two-hour battery life  —  For nearly three weeks, I've been testing the limits of Valve's Steam Frame, the company's new wearable PC.