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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
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 …
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| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety — OpenAI is working on steps to address artificial intelligence safety issues with its top competitors Anthropic PBC and Google DeepMind … | Daniel Kokotajlo / @dkokotajlo: |
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 ...
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Forums: r/Destiny, r/LeftistsForAI, and r/singularity
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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 … | Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House proposal, that would require AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety — Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI is supporting a bipartisan House proposal that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure their models are safe.
More: TechCrunch and Washington Examiner
| New York Times: |
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.
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Sources: Trump privately met Sam Altman backstage on Thursday 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.| David Welch / Bloomberg: |
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 …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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.
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
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.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
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.
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
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 …
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| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
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 … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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 …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
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
More: IEEE Spectrum
| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
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 …
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| Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
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.
More: PCWorld, Seoul Economic Daily, and XDA Developers
| Semafor: |
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 … | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
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 … | Ernie Smith / Tedium: |
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.
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| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
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.
More: Variety
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
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)| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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.
More: 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, Digit, iThinkDifferent, MacRumors, and AppleInsider
| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
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 …
More: TechCrunch, Profound, and Unite.AI
| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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
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| Apple: |
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 …
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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.
X: @yueqi_yang and @yueqi_yang
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