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Sam Altman says OpenAI and Anthropic still hold fundamentally different worldviews on AI regulation, arguing that AI's benefits justify accepting some risks — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said there remains a fundamental difference in worldview between his company and rival Anthropic …
More: Business Insider, Reuters, The Asia Business Daily, Digital Trends, Axios, and The Decoder
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Bluesky: @leahmcelrath and @carlquintanilla
Forums: r/Futurology, r/technology, and r/BetterOffline
| Wired: |
Extracted system prompts show Meta's Muse compiles “a page for every person in the user's life”, with facts, history, tips to improve relationships, and more — Millions have downloaded Meta's AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, who is the company's first senior executive from Gen Z and has succeeded in building hype for Muse — Alexandr Wang drove Muse to the top of the charts, putting the company back in the AI race—even if he ruffled feathers inside the tech giant
More: Slate. X: @xpcharan, @musecases, @alexandr_wang, @itzsuds, @alexandr_wang, @mukund, @glucapav, @quantumtumbler, and @meghanbobrowsky
| Chandni Shah / Reuters: |
In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its AI unit SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump's push to replace “artificial” intelligence with “super” — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on Sunday that he would rename the company's AI unit to SpaceXSI …
More: The Information, Gizmodo, The Economic Times, Forbes, CTech, Wccftech, Minute Mirror, TESLARATI, Cointelegraph, Fox Business, and Pixel Envy
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Forums: r/singularity and r/technology
| Politico: |
Trump announces a new Super Intelligence Force, to be led by DNI Jay Clayton, along with FTC's Andrew Ferguson, DOD's Emil Michael, and OPM's Scott Kupor — President Donald Trump said Sunday that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton will assume the newly created role …
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X: @rapidresponse47, @skupor, @skupor, @vtg2, @jkhamehl, @whitehouse, and @andrewcurran_. Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump …. Forums: r/technology
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: John Ternus has effectively become Apple's design chief, working in the studio several times a week; OLED touch-screen MacBook Pro will be much lighter — Also: A big update on the touch-screen MacBook Pro. — Apple's John Ternus is spending much of his time overseeing the company's hardware and software design work.
More: MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iClarified, Digital Trends, Appleosophy, The Apple Post, AppleInsider, and Forbes
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Anthropic's stock match of employee charity gifts hit $660M+ in the six months through March, likely to reach billions post-IPO, diluting shareholders — When Anthropic shared financial figures recently with prospective investors in its planned initial public offering … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Schneider Electric is in advanced talks to buy US engineering software firm PTC for ~$20B, its largest acquisition; a deal could come as soon as Monday — Acquisition would be French conglomerate's largest and enhance its products focused on manufacturers
More: Finimize, Reuters, Seeking Alpha, and Bloomberg
| Laith Al-Khalaf / Financial Times: |
Sources: UK neobank Monzo is in talks with CVC and Advent to sell up to a 15% stake, after Nubank takeover talks collapsed over the ~£10B valuation Monzo sought — Eleven-year-old UK fintech searching for growth capital after bruising year of boardroom tussles| Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Google SVP and DeepMind Institute co-director James Manyika on AI risks and why responsibility must be shared across industry, government, and society — The accord, which carries no legal weight, commits Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia, Meta, SpacexAI and Google to “robust internal processes” … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
Change.org says it is investing $100M of its own money to rebuild its core petitions platform with AI and has launched an AI copilot beta for petition creators — Change.org was founded as a venture-backed organization, before a 2021 restructuring that saw investors like Reid Hoffman …
LinkedIn: Kajal Odedra
| Owen Dahlkamp / Politico: |
Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits; Meta backs ones making app stores, not platforms, verify ages — Google and Apple lobbyists are engaged in a massive effort to press state lawmakers to adopt kids' online safety laws …
X: @zeromazed
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says free Gemini users will be limited to the 3.5 Flash-Lite model from October 9, while Plus subscribers will be limited to 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.6 Flash — Following the compute-based usage change in May, Google will soon introduce limits on which Gemini models free users and AI Plus subscribers can access.
More: Google Help Center, TechRadar, Storyboard18, iThinkDifferent, The Decoder, Digital Trends, Neowin, and Superpower Daily
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Forums: r/google, r/Bard, r/Bard, and r/GeminiAI
| Dr. Ian Cutress / More Than Moore: |
Q&A with OpenAI VP of Hardware Richard Ho on its Jalapeño inference chip co-designed with Broadcom, using internal OpenAI models to design the chip, and more — VP Hardware for Jalapeño … In June 2026, OpenAI confirmed what the industry had assumed for a year … Sponsor Posts
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