Jensen Huang took a surprise call from Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in Los Angeles, where the two agreed that AI safety worries are overblown  —  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.

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 …

The US DOJ says several companies used Binance to relay payments of around $1.5B for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers; Binance says it took action  —  Prosecutors said around $1.5 billion was sent back to Iran through a series of interrelated digital wallets

Apple says iCloud+ now includes Apple TV and Arcade for no extra fee in 100+ countries, and Apple Music Select, offering 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.

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which offers audits and safety certifications for AI agents, raised a $40M Series A, bringing total raised to $55M  —  A day after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job over concerns that AI could kill us all by the end of the decade …

Netherlands-based inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M+ Series A co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital, the 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.

Microsoft rolls out an emergency fix for critical issues caused by its September Patch Tuesday, which addressed nearly 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 …

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

GM plans to add Apple CarPlay and Android Auto to its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers by removing them from its EVs  —  General Motors Co. is integrating Apple Inc.'s CarPlay in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers …

Meta rolls out its Meta One subscription bundle globally, with expanded Meta AI capabilities powered by Muse, and $7.99/month and $19.99/month individual plans  —  Meta One bundles start at $7.99 per month with perks like 48-hour Instagram stories and a bold follow button.

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 ...

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 …

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.

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

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 …

Apple debuts child safety tools with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, such as for blocking gore and violent content in FaceTime calls and Safari's Ask to Browse  —  Apple's new suite of powerful, intuitive, and easy-to-use tools helps parents create safer digital experiences for their kids …

The Gates Foundation pledges $1B+ over two years to expand global access to AI and use it to tackle social inequalities; Gates says “we can harness AI for good”  —  Bill Gates, the foundation's chairman, has been vocal about the dangers of artificial intelligence.

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 …

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

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.

Meta says it plans to deploy MTIA 450, its third-generation custom AI chip, in data centers in H1 2027, followed by a broad rollout of MTIA 500 by end of 2027  —  New processor will be running in data centers next year, with another model to follow by end of 2027

India's UPI, which has been free for merchants, will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments above ₹2,000, or $21, from October 15 in a major shift  —  India has finally put a price on larger transactions on its ubiquitous digital payments network, ending years of free processing …

AWS facilities in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain remain mostly offline more than six months after being damaged by Iranian drones, complicating the region's AI ambitions  —  Amazon data centers are still offline months after being hit, testing the region's multibillion-dollar ambitions

Altera, which makes chips for AI, automation, and more, files confidentially for an IPO; Intel acquired it for ~$16.7B in 2015, and Silver Lake took 51% in 2025  —  Altera, a chipmaker backed by Silver Lake and Intel Corp., filed confidentially for an initial public offering.