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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since Dario Amodei's “pace the frontier” essay, and says it has enhanced safeguards to combat risky behavior — Claude Opus 5.5 comes with improvements to certain behaviors, like attempting to escape testing environments.
More: TestingCatalog AI News, Wccftech, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Financial Times, TechCrunch, ZDNET, Bloomberg, RuntimeWire, Yahoo Finance, and WinCentral
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Xi Jinping is unlikely to bring corporate executives to his DC summit with Trump; industry officials expected them at a dinner with top US tech CEOs — Expectations for major business deals fade, although preparations are continuing — WASHINGTON—Chinese leader Xi Jinping …
More: Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg, New York Times, Chatham House, The Daily Wire, and The Information
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| 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, The Verge, PYMNTS, New York Post, Bloomberg, The Tech Portal, Sourcery, and Horowitz Andreessen Academy
X: @bhorowitz and @eriktorenberg
Bluesky: @marypcbuk and @karlbode.com. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social. Forums: r/sanfrancisco
| 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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Forums: r/apple, r/unitedkingdom, r/london, r/Music, and r/U2Band
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft lays off 268 Xbox staffers across Halo and other studios, as part of an ongoing gaming “reset”; Activision will take over Halo and two other games — Deals to sell off Ninja Theory fell through over the summer. … Microsoft is laying off around 260 Xbox employees today …
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Bluesky: @stevekovach, @tomwarren.co.uk, and @carlivelocci.com
Forums: r/xbox, r/hellblade, r/gaming, r/Games, r/videogames, r/xbox, and r/giantbomb
| 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.”
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Forums: Hacker News, r/wallstreetbets, r/cybersecurity, and Ars OpenForum
| Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: |
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LinkedIn: Rohit Nathany, Khalid Chao, and Al Sohrabi
| 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 …
More: Artificial Analysis and The Decoder
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| Xiaomi: |
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Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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 …
X: @jessicalessin, @juliangewirtz, and @jingyanghk
| 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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is developing prototypes for a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop but hasn't decided whether to release the product — Apple Inc. is developing a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop Inc.'s wrist-worn device, part of an effort to rethink … | 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 … | 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.| 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 and Washington Post
Forums: r/AccusedOfUsingAI, r/AccusedOfUsingAI, r/billsimmons, and r/technology
| 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.
More: Verda, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, Tech Funding News, RuntimeWire, Pulse 2.0, Bitcoin Insider, and Startup.eu
LinkedIn: Ella Eskelinen, Jani Hellström, and Verda
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple quietly updates its press release to say new Photographic Styles texture and grain controls are limited to iPhone 18 Pro models and the iPhone Duo — Apple's new Texture and Grain controls for Photographic Styles are not available on iPhones other than the latest iPhone 18 Pro models …
More: Macworld, Cult of Mac, TizenHelp, PCMag, The Mac Observer, and iThinkDifferent
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Adobe launches its free Premiere video editing app on Android, nearly a year after its iOS launch, to replace Premiere Rush, set to lose support on September 30 — The Android version of Premiere has unique layouts on candy bar phones and foldable devices. It's free to use and available today.
More: The Adobe Blog, 9to5Google, Thurrott, How-To Geek, Engadget, TechRadar, CNET, PetaPixel, Chrome Unboxed, Droid Life, Digital Trends, Digit, Livemint, Phandroid, Trusted Reviews, DPReview, and New Atlas
| CTech: |
Chamelio, which is building AI tools designed to execute routine legal workflows and escalate only the cases that require human judgment, raised a $26M Series A — Backed by Entrée Capital, the startup is building software designed to execute routine legal workflows and escalate only the cases that require human judgment.
More: Bloomberg Law, FinSMEs, LAW.com, and Artificial Lawyer
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
In his UN General Assembly speech, President Trump says the US is “officially” renaming AI to “super intelligence” because “artificial” makes it sound fake — The president claims the word ‘artificial’ makes intelligence fake.
More: The Hill, Washington Post, Bloomberg, RedState, and Washington Examiner
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| 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.
Forums: r/armenia
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Sources: in a London presentation, SpaceXAI says Grok Bot hit 418,000 users as of September 14, up 24% from the week prior; SpaceXAI launched it in mid-August — SpaceXAI's Grok Bot artificial intelligence agent has topped 400,000 weekly users roughly a month after it launched … | 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.'| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Snorkel AI, which offers an “agentic data development platform” with humans and AI agents to create and vet data, raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation — Data startup Snorkel AI has raised $350 million in fresh funding at a $3.5 billion valuation, its CEO Alex Ratner told Reuters …
More: Finimize, Insight Partners, Unite.AI, Coverager, and RuntimeWire
| John Higgins / The Verge: |
Apple announces new $350 Beats 360 headphones, with IPX4 rating, swappable ear cups, a replaceable battery, ANC, Find My support, and more — Everyone has seen someone at the gym or running around their neighborhood wearing headphones that were never designed for workouts. Quite often those headphones are Beats.
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X: @dangrabham and @lanceulanoff
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