Trump attacks Dario Amodei, saying the only “guardrails” AI needs are a “STRONG AND SMART” president, and calls the idea that AI would destroy humanity a “HOAX”  —  President Donald Trump attacked Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei for urging …

Sources: Apple's H1 2027 plans include an iPhone 18e, an A20 iPhone 18, an A20 Pro iPhone Air 2, an OLED iPad Air, an A19 Pro MacBook Neo, and an M6 MacBook Air  —  Apple Inc. just launched some major new products, including the iPhone Duo, the iPhone 18 Pro line, AirPods 5 earbuds and fresh smartwatches.

Netherlands-based inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M+ Series A co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital, Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries  —  Samsung has backed a Dutch AI chipmaker in a $231 million funding round, amid a boom in investment in alternatives to Nvidia's graphic processing units.

Cybersecurity stocks were the top performers in the S&P 500 on Monday amid escalating AI fears; CrowdStrike rose 14%, Palo Alto Networks 13%, and Fortinet 9%  —  The software sector outperformed the chip sector to a historic degree in the face of escalating AI fears

Apple rolls out iOS 27, watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, visionOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, all with Siri AI for English devices, new app icons and widgets, and more  —  watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 also debut today. … Apple is now rolling out its iOS 27 update to compatible devices today …

Sources: OpenAI bought Glass Imaging, which is developing AI-powered smartphone camera tech, in a deal valuing it at $300M+, up from a ~$100M valuation in 2025  —  Glass Imaging, valued above $300 million in deal, was founded by former Apple employees  —  OpenAI quietly bought …

Steam Frame review: comfortable to wear and supports multiple ways to play games, but it doesn't feel like a finished product and has only two-hour battery life  —  For nearly three weeks, I've been testing the limits of Valve's Steam Frame, the company's new wearable PC.

AI-linked stocks fell worldwide on Monday after industry leaders called for slowing development; the Philadelphia chip index fell 6%, NVDA 3%, AMD 4%, and MU 5%  —  AI-linked stocks plunged worldwide on Monday after leaders of the biggest artificial intelligence companies warned …

Nuance Labs, which builds low-latency AI avatars that can have face-to-face conversations, raised a $50M Series A led by Lightspeed, with Nvidia participating  —  A startup that's trying to make AI models better conversationalists with more emotional intelligence has just raised $50 million.

Anthropic debuts Claude for Financial Advisors, with connectors to investment analytics and wealth-management tools from BlackRock, Addepar, Schwab, and others  —  AI lab Anthropic on Monday launched a set of tools for financial advisers, connecting its Claude chatbot to investment analytics …

OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans “are losing the ability to evaluate them” while humans rely more on AI to lead research  —  Dan Selsam is a current OpenAI capabilities researcher. (since 2022) He was my boss for a while. He doesn't have a twitter account but has made this public statement of his views on AI risk and sent it to me to share: Dan Selsam's Personal Statement on AI Risk: I have been working on AI for over ...

Vera Rubin NVL72 inference tests show up to 7x better token throughput per MW vs. Blackwell on a 1.6T DeepSeek model, above Huang's 3x claim for 1T-3T LLMs  —  Jensen Sandbagging Performance Again, 2x more Annual Profit Per GigaWatt, The More you Buy, The More you Earn, AgentX, InferenceX, Extreme Co-Design

Google gives all of its engineers Claude Opus 5 access via Antigravity, and says “Gemini remains our primary and foundational model for internal development”  —  Googlers have some of the best perks in Silicon Valley, but there's one thing many of them have long been denied: access to Anthropic's Claude.

A deep dive into on-device and data center inference for robots, including a primer on robot models, deployments, supply chains, the “network wall”, and more  —  Robot Models, Silicon & DRAM Efficiency, Jetson Thor vs. B300 TCO, Deployments, The Network Wall  —  Ivan Chiam, Gianluca, Zane Fong, and 3 others

Sources: Tokyo-based memory maker Kioxia is considering raising $10B+ through a 2027 US ADR listing as it seeks liquidity after billions in share buybacks  —  Kioxia Holdings Corp. is considering raising at least $10 billion by listing American depositary receipts, people familiar with the matter said …

A look at iLands, a company that is essentially Fiverr for AI agents, whose bots email unsolicited and annoying pitches to people, usually for ~$25 services  —  Making sense of iLands, the company whose AI agents emailed me half a dozen times in two days offering to do my research.

Thoughts on AI labs' safety concerns: a coordinated slowdown may look like an antitrust conspiracy to limit output that would preserve frontier model margins  —  AI and antitrust, lockups and indexes, annuities, Montessori and sudden wealth syndrome.  —  P(doom)

Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton limit Fable use as Anthropic doesn't guarantee zero data retention; source: Palantir hasn't made Fable available via its software  —  As paranoia rises over whether Anthropic or OpenAI could learn from their customers' intellectual property …

Rome-based Exein, which offers cybersecurity tools for connected devices including cars and home routers, raised $270M led by Headline at a $1.7B valuation  —  Rome-based company is developing a foundation model to protect billions of internet-connected devices, from robots to lightbulbs

London-based Jack & Jill, which offers Jack, an AI agent for job seekers, and Jill, an agent for companies, raised a $40M Series A, after raising $20M in 2025  —  Jack & Jill, a London-based agentic job-finding platform, raised a $40 million Series A led by Air Street Capital, CEO Matt Wilson tells Axios Pro exclusively.