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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.
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| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Anthropic says Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 “on most tasks” while costing about 40% less to run than Opus 5; Opus 5.5 costs $4/1M input and $20/1M output tokens — Ask about this article... According to Anthropic, Opus 5.5 matches Claude Fable 5.1 “on most tasks” while costing about 40 percent less to run than Opus 5.
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| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
Anthropic raises its five-hour usage limits by 20% on Pro, Max, and Team plans, and gives subscription users a rate limit reset — Anthropic's newest Claude model aims to make frontier AI cheaper, faster, and safer, while giving subscribers more breathing room before those frustrating usage limits kick in.| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost — GPT-6 Sol and Luna arrive less than three months after GPT-5.6, with OpenAI claiming major accuracy gains, dramatic cost reductions …
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| Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: |
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
ShinyHunters claims it used an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to hack FBI-related services and steal employee and applicant data; it also defaced the FBI jobs site — A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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| 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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| 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.
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| Axel Metz / TechRadar: |
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both on TSMC's 2nm process, with two 5GHz prime cores and six 4GHz performance cores — Extreme by name, extreme by nature — Qualcomm has announced not one, but two new flagship mobile chipsets at its annual Snapdragon Summit …
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| CoinDesk: |
Binance acquires a $100M stake in Circle, and both companies sign a five-year deal that pays the crypto exchange to promote the USDC stablecoin on its platform — Binance bought $100 million of Circle shares as the companies signed a five-year deal that pays the crypto exchange to promote the USDC stablecoin on its platform.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nat Friedman says Meta built Muse “from scratch” but was “heavily inspired” by OpenClaw, as users compare the two, including calling Muse “OpenClaw for normies” — Early adopters of Meta's Muse have been speculating that the reason the AI works … | 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 … | 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.
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| 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 … | 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
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
New York-based Ande, whose AI agents help businesses arrange corporate events for employees or customers, emerges from stealth with $52M in seed and Series A — Personal AI agents like Instinct and Muse have promised to take away the hassle of booking hard-to-get restaurant reservations, Broadway tickets and sporting events.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it plans to let third-party groups conduct technical safety evaluations of its AI models during the training, evaluation, and deployment phases — OpenAI plans to let third-party groups vet its artificial intelligence models for safety risks in earlier phases of the development cycle … | Heather Knight / New York Times: |
San Francisco sues Trump Media & Technology, claiming its Truth API service violates California's Unfair Competition Law by creating an insider trading market — The city attorney argued that the service, available for up to $100,000 a month, could allow wealthy traders to manipulate the market … | 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.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build self-improving AI, is in talks to raise ~$1B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $5B valuation — Mirendil, an artificial intelligence startup launched by former Anthropic PBC researchers, is in talks to raise a new round of funding … | 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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| 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 … | 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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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
TikTok US joins child safety initiative Lantern, which says members like Meta and X shared 2M+ signals of potentially violating behavior from 2023 through 2025 — Eight months after it was spun out of TikTok, the social media platform's U.S. unit, known as TikTok USDS Joint Venture …
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| 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 …
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| Juliet Macur / New York Times: |
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