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 ...

Elon Musk says top US AI labs and “three or four of the leading Chinese companies” should let rivals run a “test harness” on their models to evaluate safety  —  Elon Musk called for the top artificial intelligence companies to work together and test each other's models …

GM plans to integrate Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in 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.

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.

Thatch, a healthcare plan marketplace where employers set a fixed budget that employees can use for individual plans, raised a $108M Series C at a $1B valuation  —  Thatch, a platform that lowers healthcare costs for employers while expanding plan choices for workers, has raised $108 million …

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

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

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.

Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter  —  Boris Cherney, the head of Anthropic's coding tool Claude Code, last month found himself in the middle of an online spat …

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its “most advanced live dialogue models yet”, to more effectively enable voice agents  —  Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet.

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 …

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 …

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.

Google gives all its engineers access to Claude Opus 5 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.

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.

Sources: Palmer Luckey-backed Erebor Bank ended its free stablecoin-to-cash redemption offer after crypto trading firms like Wintermute used 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.

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which builds an audit and certification layer for agents, raised a $40M Series A, taking its 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 …

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 …

AWS facilities in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain remain mostly offline after Iranian drones hit them in March, testing the region's pitch for AI and data processing  —  Amazon data centers are still offline months after being hit, testing the region's multibillion-dollar ambitions

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 …

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 …

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.

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)