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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and no merchant consent — Amazon says it has cut off Meta's new Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com on behalf of customers …
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| Adam Clark / Barron's Online: |
Intel, AMD, and Arm shares soar on potential CPU demand sparked by the popularity of Meta's Muse; INTC jumps 12%+, AMD is up 8%+, and ARM 15%+ — Advanced Micro Devices' market valuation surpasses $1 trillion for the first time in intraday trading. — Choose Barron's as a preferred source of financial news
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| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI is developing features to counter SpaceX's Grok Bot “teammates”, and has discussed creating a personal AI assistant to compete with Meta's Muse — OpenAI pioneered AI that can take over web browsers and other applications on people's behalf, and its ChatGPT app brought generative AI to consumers.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils Googlebook hardware, with flagship devices from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, offering deep Android integration, coming in October for $899+ — Googlebook OS hands-on: It's Android, stupid — Software — Google's main pitch is that Googlebooks should be the laptop of choice for those with Android phones:
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| xAI: |
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7, which it says is better at verifying its own work and managing longer context, available for $2/1M input and $6/1M output tokens — SpaceXAI's most powerful model for coding and knowledge work. Twice as fast, at half the price of comparable models.
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Ahead of Sam Altman's UN address, OpenAI urges the US to lead an effort to develop global safety and security standards for building frontier systems — OpenAI on Monday released international AI safety standards as world leaders, namely the U.S. and China, weigh how to mitigate risk.
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) with 256 GB of RAM review: a dream machine to run local AI agents and a massive leap over M3 Ultra for prompt processing and generation — For the past few days, I've been testing the (currently) top-of-the-line M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 256 GB of RAM.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Apple Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) review: top benchmark scores, high base memory of 96GB, and four to six ultra-fast Thunderbolt 5 ports, but incredibly expensive — At $11,299, the extra performance over the M5 Max model is only worth it for select buyers.
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| Brandon Hill / Tom's Hardware: |
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| Olivia Fletcher / Bloomberg: |
Ireland's DPC fines Google €403M over how it processed location data after complaints from European consumer rights groups, and gives it six months to comply — Ireland's media watchdog has fined Alphabet Inc.'s Google over how the tech company processed location data after complaints …
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| Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News: |
iPhone 18 Pro teardown: its SoC now sits outside the logic board for better cooling, the variable aperture is thoughtfully designed but hard to repair, and more — The iPhone 18 Pro's little mechanical pupil is irresistible. A bunch of moving parts make for a good excuse to put our brand new camera under the microscope.
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| Yash Roy / Bloomberg: |
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says OpenAI's Hugging Face hacking incident in July “is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents” — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the responsibility for the recent hacking incident involving OpenAI's advanced …
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| Ezra Klein / New York Times: |
After hacking incidents and the industry's existential risk warnings, we need a regulatory ban on RSI, as competition drives unchecked autonomous acceleration — There's a chasm right now between how artificial intelligence feels to most of us who use it and how A.I. feels out at the experimental frontier of the technology.| Li Yuan / New York Times: |
As Xi Jinping visits DC, Chinese economists warn that Beijing is pouring too many resources into AI, which creates few jobs, and is doing little for the economy — “The U.S. Lead Over China in AI Is All But Gone.” “China Is AI-Maxxing.” “China Just Erased America's AI Lead.”
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| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
ShinyHunters hijacked the dark web site of cybercrime gang Cl0p, set an eight-figure extortion demand, describing the amount as “2.333%” of Cl0p's net worth — The ShinyHunters extortion group hijacked the dark web leak site of the prolific Cl0p ransomware gang, according to material posted on the site over the weekend.
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| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
Scott Bessent says the US proposed an AI incident “notification mechanism” to China, and both sides agreed to set up an AI dialogue ahead of the Trump-Xi summit — Treasury secretary says sides working towards ‘shared vision’ after talks with Chinese counterpart| Bloomberg: |
Nscale's S-1: Microsoft and Anthropic account for 85% of its $103B in total contract value, only $2.6B of contract value was active as of late August, and more — Nscale's 1,000-fold increase in contacts over the last three years is mainly due to two clients thirsty for artificial intelligence …
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| Kate Abnett / Reuters: |
The EU proposes rules requiring data centers with a capacity of 500+ kW to disclose their energy and water efficiency using an EU-designed labeling system — The European Commission proposed rules on Monday requiring data centres in Europe to disclose how efficiently they use energy and water …
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| Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: |
NYC-based Corridor, which uses AI to offer health benefits for small businesses, raised a $16M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures, following a $9M pre-seed — Corridor, an AI-native health benefits broker, raised $16 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, CEO Nikhil Aggarwal tells Axios Pro exclusively.
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says it is working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to responsibly share math-related AI advances — Loading... On August 28, we began training a new internal model. In addition to resolving the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, this model has now resolved … | Kirsten Grind / New York Times: |
Investigation: AI hacker house AGI House had 37 incidents logged by police since 2022, many for party-related complaints, as Bay Area tech houses proliferate — For the last few years, I have been hearing more about group houses in the Bay Area where tech employees live and work together … Sponsor Posts
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