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| 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 stores
More: Seeking Alpha, Quartz, Motley Fool, Forkast, The Paypers, and MarketWatch
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A researcher says a flaw in Meta's Muse Mac app lets any app or terminal command access users' Muse authentication tokens; Meta says it issued a hotfix — Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to hype the security of its new AI assistant Muse, claiming it is “built from the ground up for privacy and security.”
More: The Verge, GitHub, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, New Atlas, Malwarebytes, Digit, iTnews, Cyber Security News, iThinkDifferent, Digital Trends, Tech Times, The Hacker News, The Overspill, RuntimeWire, SiliconANGLE, and The Register
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Bluesky: @aaronblackshear and @hypervisible.blacksky.app. Mastodon: @Dangerous_beans@aus.social. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Source: Xbox plans to lay off hundreds of employees this week in its second major staff cut in 2026, as it also plans to consolidate several of its game studios — Xbox is planning to lay off hundreds of employees this week in its second major staff reduction this year, according to someone briefed on the plans.
More: The Verge, Video Games Chronicle, GamesIndustry.biz, Business Today, PocketGamer.biz, Eurogamer.net, Wccftech, The Hindu, Gameranx, Polygon.com, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Neowin, Nintendo Life, Tech4Gamers, Pure Xbox, TheGamer, Push Square, DayOne, and MediaPost
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Bluesky: @andyrobinson and @idlesloth
Forums: r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, and r/Games
| 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.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
MiMo-V2.6-Pro ties Grok 4.7 (xHigh) and beats GLM-5.3 (Max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, making it the benchmark's top-scoring open-weight model — That puts Xiaomi's new flagship ahead of proprietary models including xAI's Grok 4.6, currently at 44, and Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash … | Reuters: |
Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu says the company plans to train a 5T- to 10T-parameter AI model, as it lays out a sweeping push across AI models, chips, and data centers — Alibaba Group (9988.HK) said on Tuesday it was developing an AI model up to four times larger than the company's flagship model …
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| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba's T-Head unveils the Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, which it says triples its predecessor's performance and can scale to clusters of up to 500K units — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is rolling out what it calls China's most powerful AI chip, an accelerator to compete with Nvidia Corp …
More: TrendForce, Wall Street Journal, Quartz, Barron's Online, The Straits Times, Livemint, Nikkei Asia, Forkast, and Blockchain.News. X: @alibabagroup
| The Information: |
Sources: the Cyberspace Administration of China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot over alleged data leaks to Anthropic via Claude and has questioned staff — China's internet regulator is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic alleged both companies had been routing sensitive user data …
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| Bloomberg: |
Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, Rogo, and other AI startups 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.| Will Oremus / The Atlantic: |
Some universities have barred using AI detectors due to student-instructor distrust over false positives; some educators have just cancelled writing assignments — Professors are tearing their hair out over AI detectors. — Timothy Paustian has tried everything to stop his students from writing essays with AI.
More: The Dartmouth. X: @marc__watkins. Bluesky: @ouij, @willoremus.com, and @bakerdphd
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| Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg: |
Finnish neocloud startup Verda raised $189M led by Emergence at a $1B+ valuation and aims to raise up to $1.5B in equity and debt in 2026 and up to $10B in 2027 — Cloud startup Verda has raised $189 million in fresh financing, underscoring continued investor appetite for the infrastructure powering the artificial intelligence boom.
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says it is working with an independent math advisory group to responsibly share AI advances, following an open letter raising concerns from researchers — Loading... On August 28, we began training a new internal model. In addition to resolving the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem …
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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 “until it can be done safely” — Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: multiple staff at the UK's AISI have been signed off work with stress, as tight model release schedules and AI fears lead to low morale and burnout — Top researchers at Aisi, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind report burnout and stress over developing powerful AI
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| David Phelan / Forbes: |
Apple unveils Apple Music Hall, a 600-person live music venue built in its London headquarters at Battersea Power Station with two recording and mixing studios — This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. … Apple has just announced a new live music venue, built into its London headquarters at Battersea Power Station.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Cisco Talos releases CAIRN, an open-source framework designed to classify and analyze AI-integrated malware by tracking AI metadata and behavioral fingerprints — Cisco Talos researchers created a new framework for identifying malware and hacking tools that rely on AI chatbots—and quickly discovered something unusual.
More: Fox News, Cisco Talos Blog, and RuntimeWire
| Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
DoorDash agrees to a $131.5M settlement with NYC's DCWP to resolve a year-plus investigation into its compliance with the city's 2023 delivery driver pay law — DoorDash will pay $131.5 million to settle an investigation by New York City regulators into the company's compliance with pay laws for food-delivery workers.
More: DoorDash, Bloomberg, New York Times, Quartz, and New York Post
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Polymarket is lobbying regulators in London, Brussels, and across the EU to be governed by financial services laws rather than local gambling rules — US prediction markets platform is seeking to be regulated as a financial services firm rather than under a patchwork of gambling legislation
More: Engadget, crypto.news, and Roosevelt Institute
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
US startup Firebird is building a 300MW data center in Armenia, set to host 70K+ Nvidia chips by 2027; sources: Trump pledged Nvidia export approvals to Armenia — During the Cold War, the Soviet Union's smallest republic was an electronics and tech center for the Communist superpower.| Juliet Macur / New York Times: |
Amazon, Walmart and other companies are using drones for fast deliveries in Richardson, Texas, but residents complain about noise and clumsy package drops — In Richardson, a fleet of drones has started to deliver goods quickly. But the noise is drowning out life for some residents: 'We can't live like this.'| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
The Austrian Academy of Science, Mistral, and Sail Reply plan to launch Apollo, an Ancient Greek LLM trained on ~600M historical Greek words, available for free — In the hope of uncovering new details about ancient life, researchers have developed a large language model that fills in the gaps in papyrus fragments.| Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
a16z invests $35M in Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an independent, unaccredited two-year alternative to college; Anthropic, Meta, and others will provide compute — Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz spending $35 million to back two-year academy, with other Bay Area tech giants on board
More: a16z
| Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: |
French pharma SaaS startup Biolevate raised a €30M Series A co-led by RAISE France and Orange Ventures, taking its total funding to €36M — Biolevate, a French pharma-focused SaaS startup, raised €30 million in Series A funding, CEO Joël Belafa tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: Tech.eu, FinSMEs, and The SaaS News
| Sophie Shulman / CTech: |
Cognex agrees to acquire robotics and 3D computer vision company RealSense in a ~$600M deal, including $500M in cash; Intel spun off RealSense in July 2025 — The Haifa-based robotics company grew rapidly after its spinout 14 months ago, and its CEO says independence allowed it to pursue opportunities …
More: Globes, Seeking Alpha, and Unite.AI
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