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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 closes up 12%, AMD 10%, and Arm 17% on Monday amid investor optimism that Meta's Muse could boost CPU demand; AMD's market cap tops $1T for the first time — Advanced Micro Devices' market valuation surpasses $1 trillion for the first time in intraday trading.| Bloomberg: |
Sensor Tower: Muse was downloaded 902K+ times in the six days after its launch on Sept. 8, vs. Meta AI's 773K in the same post-launch period; META jumps 12%+ — Meta Platforms Inc.'s new artificial intelligence agent, Muse, has quickly risen to the top of mobile app charts …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says automated research could improve alignment, but “fully autonomous RSI is not happening today” and shouldn't be pursued unless it can be done safely — Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.| 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.
More: Semafor, New York Times, Reuters, NewsMax.com, and Financial Times
| 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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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/grok, r/cursor, r/accelerate, and r/singularity
| 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 …
More: TechCrunch, What's new, agmai.org, Will Lockett's Newsletter, and Unite.AI
Forums: Hacker News, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/accelerate, r/mathematics, r/antiai, and r/singularity
| Xiaomi: |
Xiaomi debuts open-weight omnimodal models MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash; Pro allegedly performs “on par with Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol across most agent benchmarks” — Frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public. Today, we are releasing and open-sourcing the MiMo-V2.6 series.
More: TestingCatalog AI News and RuntimeWire
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A researcher says a flaw in Meta's Muse app for Mac lets any app or terminal command gain access to the token that authenticates users to their Muse account — Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to hype the security of its new AI assistant Muse, claiming it is …
More: TechCrunch, GitHub, and RuntimeWire
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| The Information: |
Source: before the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI was negotiating a legally binding deal with Anthropic for the companies to stress-test each other's models — OpenAI is rethinking a range of safety strategies as it responds to fears from employees and others about the dangers its AI poses.| 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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| 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 … | 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: |
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Forums: r/LocalLLaMA, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Brandon Hill / Tom's Hardware: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Some startups, like Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, and Rogo, are embracing open-weight models or training their own models to reduce expensive reliance on frontier labs — The $15.6 billion legal startup Harvey built its business around training AI models like OpenAI's GPT-4 to do specialized work for lawyers.| 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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Forums: r/apple, r/technology, and MacRumors Forums
| 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.
More: Reuters, Infosecurity, PCMag, RuntimeWire, TechRadar, The Register, and Malwarebytes
| 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.
More: Washington Post and International Business Times
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| Maureen Farrell / New York Times: |
Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy has delayed its IPO, originally planned for this month, as investors question the company's sought-after valuation of $50B+ — Several companies tied to the data center industry have delayed their initial public offerings amid the increasing public backlash to these energy guzzling facilities.
More: The Information and Bloomberg
X: @danprimack and @carlquintanilla
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Nichola Groom / Reuters: |
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs seven bills aimed at regulating data centers, imposing new requirements on electricity costs, water use, and local oversight — California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday signed seven bills aimed at regulating the fast-growing data center industry …
More: Governor of California, KQED, Pulse 2.0, Los Angeles Times, The Sun, Capital Brief, SFist, Mercury News, Daily Kos, CBS News, CalMatters, and Courthouse News Service
Bluesky: @governor.ca.gov and @governor.ca.gov
| 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 …
More: European Commission, Engadget, Unite.AI, Euronews, Courthouse News Service, and Politico
| 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 … | Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
British Columbia sues OpenAI for alleged safety violations and negligence for failing to flag the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect's ChatGPT activity to police — The lawsuit alleges AI company failed to notify law enforcement, calls out product safety gaps — British Columbia filed a lawsuit …
More: Reuters, Chat GPT Is Eating the World, Unite.AI, Bloomberg Law, and iPhone in Canada. X: @guimarin
| Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: |
Shopify plans to allow Meta's Muse to complete purchases on behalf of users at Shopify-powered stores via its one-tap checkout service Shop Pay — Shopify plans to allow Meta's personal AI agent to complete purchases on behalf of users with the e-commerce platform's roster of storesSponsor Posts
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SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
Zoho:
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Introducing Zoho TouchPoint: Every handshake deserves a next step — Here's a scene you've probably experienced. You spend a day at an event, talk to dozens of people, and come home with a stack of business cards.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
WebBrain:
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