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.

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 ...

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 …

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.

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.

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

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.

DoorDash agrees to acquire Wonder's Grubhub Campus Dining business, formerly Tapingo, for $300M, and will add $125M to Wonder's $650M Series D announced in July  —  The delivery platform DoorDash is investing in and partnering with Marc Lore-owned food tech company Wonder in deals worth …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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.

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 …

Sources: Palmer Luckey-backed Erebor Bank ended its free stablecoin-to-cash redemption offer after trading firms like Wintermute exploited it for arbitrage  —  When Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank launched earlier this year, it made an attractive pitch to lure new crypto customers: It would convert their stablecoins to cash for free.

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.

Sources: the US Commerce Department last month ordered Kalshi to take down an AI compute futures product, citing national security concerns; Kalshi complied  —  THE SCOOP  —  The US Commerce Department last month ordered Kalshi to take down one of its products tracking the price of AI compute …

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 …

UMG sues DistroKid, alleging it distributes AI-generated music masquerading as artist-backed releases and knowingly “proliferates” copyright-infringing tracks  —  Universal Music Group is suing the world's biggest music distributor by volume, DistroKid.

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)

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.

Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April  —  Khosla Ventures, Blackstone and Marc Benioff are among the investors putting $200 million into the startup