|
September 7, 2026, 9:50 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook's pay package indicates he will remain very active at Apple; sources: Apple's plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave — Also: The latest on Apple's big Sept. 9 event. — The early signs out of Cupertino are that Tim Cook will still loom large at Apple.
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, The Apple Post, Digit, Business Today, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, iThinkDifferent, The Mac Observer, iPhone in Canada, Daring Fireball, AppleInsider, Apple Must, and Gulf News
X: @birch_js, @markgurman, @ajkemps, and @markgurman
Bluesky: @stevekovach, @stevekovach, and @hern. Mastodon: @ianbetteridge@social …. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: |
Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after “purported white-hat hackers” withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet — worth millions of dollars were withdrawn from a settlement network used by cryptocurrency exchanges …
More: Reuters, International Business Times, The Block, Decrypt, Bitcoin Insider, The Crypto Basic, CryptoSlate, Livemint, Bloomberg, Protos, The Daily Hodl, crypto.news, Cointelegraph News, Nairametrics, Cointelegraph, CryptoNinjas, The Cyber Express, Bitcoin News, CryptoPotato, The Crypto Times, CoinGape, [your]NEWS, Yahoo Finance, Bitcoin Magazine, and Web3 is Going Just Great
X: @liquid_btc, @excellion, @side_swap, @excellion, @mempool, @donaldevine, @tomerstrolight, @_miguelmedeiros, @truthcoin, @nod7r, @watcherguru, @cryptowendyo, @bitcoinisaiah, @alanbwt, @stokr_io, @kepleronchain, @brt2412, @marshallhayner, @peruvian_bull, @britishhodl, @satoshinagonna, @bitcoinmagazine, @darkwebinformer, and @mrsaneapps. Forums: r/Bitcoin
| Financial Times: |
A look at the 2019 US criminal case against Huawei, with an upcoming trial over racketeering charges, including sanctions evasion and corporate espionage — Five years after finance chief Meng Wanzhou's release from detention in Canada, the company itself is going on trial| Cal Newport / New York Times: |
How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims — As the tech elite prepares to make billions from the A.I. revolution, the public mood about this technology has taken a dark turn.
X: @chris_said, @jessesingal, @sapinker, @mikeisaac, and @stefanfschubert
Forums: r/neoliberal, r/BetterOffline, and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Simon Foy / Financial Times: |
Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy — Graduates and interns hoping to join Swiss bank must show they can use the technology to improve outcomes and efficiency
More: The Decoder, TechRadar, and Australian Financial Review
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Insilico, which uses AI to accelerate drug discovery, says early data shows rentosertib, a drug whose structure was generated with AI's help, could slow aging — Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition.
More: MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Unite.AI
| Stephen Council / Business Insider: |
A look at Anthropic's Labs team, a ~20-person group led by cofounder Ben Mann that acts as an internal startup incubator for developing flagship products — Inside Anthropic, an unorthodox group can take a lot of credit for the AI company's meteoric rise. — The company's Labs team …
Forums: r/ClaudeAI
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the development of an AI model for real-time spatial video, which could launch as soon as next month — ByteDance Ltd. is readying an AI model geared for real-time spatial video generation, taking on Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc … | Nikkei Asia: |
Huawei unveils the Mate XT2, a trifold phone powered by the Kirin 9050 Pro, an in-house designed chipset that it says is entirely free from US restrictions — TAIPEI — China's Huawei Technologies has unveiled its first triple-folding smartphone powered by chips that it says are free …
More: The Verge, RTÉ, The Information, Android Authority, SamMobile, Moneycontrol, Huawei Central, and DigiTimes
| Reuters: |
LA- and Bengaluru-based hyperspectral orbital imagery startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing its total funding to $195M — Indian space tech startup Pixxel said on Monday it had raised $100 million in a Series C funding round led by Singapore state investor Temasek … | Yan Zhuang / New York Times: |
A record 12.7M graduates are entering China's workforce in 2026 as AI adds uncertainty to an oversaturated job market with a shrinking pool of entry-level roles — A record 12.7 million young people are looking for jobs as the country embraces artificial intelligence — and as the technology begins to upend the work force.
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.Sponsor Post
| Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal: |
How everyday US investors are vibe-coding algorithms to automate trading strategies by connecting their stock portfolios to AI agents built with Claude or Codex — Americans are vibe-coding trading algorithms and handing over their stock portfolios to AI agents. Welcome to the world of the robot retail investor.
Bluesky: @clebsaints
| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more — I did not expect to be back here so soon with more OpenAI agent swarm coverage. — And yet, here we are.
More: Financial Express, MediaNama, SecurityWeek, The Register, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, The Information, Business Insider, Tom's Hardware, Security Affairs, The Indian Express, Implicator.ai, Engadget, Seoul Economic Daily, Digit, BleepingComputer, CTech, and Tech Times
X: @full_kelly_, @singhns, and @openai. LinkedIn: Ian Tien. Bluesky: @profchildermass. Mastodon: @ArthurZork@mstdn.party
| Bloomberg: |
Shein lost about $5B in market value since its IPO, dropping to ~$21B, as it finished one of the worst opening weeks after a major Hong Kong listing — Shein Global Holdings Ltd. has lost about $5 billion in market value since its initial public offering as it finished one of the worst opening weeks …
More: KrASIA
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
IDrive:
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.Featured Podcasts
Grit:
The AI Race Has a Leaderboard | Arena CEO Anastasios Angelopoulos
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Lenny's Podcast:
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Big Technology Podcast:
GPT-6 & OpenAI's Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer's Scandalous Legacy
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Hard Fork:
The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR's Ajeya Cotra
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Data Centers, Elon Musk, and the New Politics of Tech, with David Weigel
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
Newest
Bloomberg:
Sources: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the development of an AI model for real-time spatial video, which could launch as soon as next monthFind
45 minutes ago
Stephen Council / Business Insider:
A look at Anthropic's Labs team, a ~20-person group led by cofounder Ben Mann that acts as an internal startup incubator for developing flagship productsFind
60 minutes ago
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Insilico, which uses AI to accelerate drug discovery, says early data shows rentosertib, a drug whose structure was generated with AI's help, could slow agingFind
2 hours ago
Financial Times:
A look at the 2019 US criminal case against Huawei, with an upcoming trial over racketeering charges, including sanctions evasion and corporate espionageFind
2½ hours ago
Bloomberg:
Shein lost about $5B in market value since its IPO, dropping to ~$21B, as it finished one of the worst opening weeks after a major Hong Kong listingFind
3½ hours ago
Nikkei Asia:
Huawei unveils the Mate XT2, a trifold phone powered by the Kirin 9050 Pro, an in-house designed chipset that it says is entirely free from US restrictionsFind
4 hours ago
Cal Newport / New York Times:
How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claimsFind
4½ hours ago
From Mediagazer
New York Times:Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| OpenAI: |
More: BBC, Business Insider, The Stack, The Rundown AI, Digit, The Indian Express, The Neuron, Unite.AI, RuntimeWire, and Simon Willison's Weblog
X: @lukeprog, @tenobrus, @deredleritt3r, @rynorhn, @gailcweiner, @amir, @tomekkorbak, @thezvi, @tokengremlin, @__nmca__, @ruben_bloom, @romainhuet, @_sholtodouglas, @seltaa_, @d29756183, @notjazii, @eric_ho, @sama, @ericjang11, @daveshapi, @kimmonismus, @kimmonismus, @jonfavs, @shakeelhashim, @andrewcurran_, @kliu128, and @merettm
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @mclem.org, @turntrout, and @carlquintanilla
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/singularity, r/accelerate, and r/OpenAI
| Valida Pau / The Information: |
More: DatacenterDynamics and Seoul Economic Daily
X: @bdsams, @validapau, @rohanpaul_ai, @edzitron, @hesamation, and @validapau. Bluesky: @stevenjcbuckley
| OpenAI: |
More: Help Net Security, PCMag, Business Insider, The Decoder, Key Context, The Neuron, Engadget, and Unite.AI
X: @andrewcurran_, @chinmay_d__, @michaelzhao_, @_chris_ong, @_chris_ong, @_chris_ong, @guangyurobert, @_chris_ong, @simonw, @reach_vb, @oneill_c, @ai_for_success, @dylan522p, @polynoamial, @boazbaraktcs, @borismpower, @kliu128, @andrewcurran_, @kliu128, @_chris_ong, @btibor91, and @kliu128. Bluesky: @ramon-astudillo
Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/neoliberal, and r/accelerate
Earlier Picks
| New York Times: |
More: The Decoder, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, The Overspill, and Joanne Jacobs
Forums: r/redscarepod, r/stupidpol, r/technology, and r/anime_titties
| Philip Wegmann / Wall Street Journal: |
More: Axios. X: @humanharlan, @ibrycecrawford, @jeffjarvis, and @philipwegmann
Forums: r/AIDangers, r/politics, r/TrueChristianPolitics, and r/technology