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| Jack Ewing / New York Times: |
Ford says Apple's software will be available in its new EVs, helping determine autonomous driving via Apple Maps, and they are working to improve self-driving — In a first, Apple Maps will influence the way a new line of electric vehicles made by Ford Motor operates, and other automakers may follow.
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LinkedIn: Anders Truelsen and Moritz Gimbel
Forums: r/F150Lightning, r/cars, and r/apple
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 — OpenAI said today it is making ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related queries, available to all U.S.-based users over 18 across all plans.
More: OpenAI, AppleInsider, CNET, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, iClarified, iThinkDifferent, MacRumors, The Decoder, 9to5Mac, MacTech.com, Neowin, Mashable, and WeRSM
| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Google adds a selfie video sign-in option for account recovery, using tools like liveness detection to safeguard against deepfake attacks, rolling out globally — The next time you're locked out of your Google account, you can use your face as part of the account recovery process.
More: Google, Ars Technica, Google Help Center, TechCrunch, Inc, BGR, Bloomberg, The Hacker News, Dexerto, Fast Company, Neowin, Techaeris, Cyber Security News, Forbes, 9to5Google, Reuters, PCMag, WeRSM, The Register, Moneycontrol, Android Police, How-To Geek, and TechEBlog
LinkedIn: Wuwei Zhang, Lana Simpson, and Stéphane Taine
| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Microsoft is testing free, ad-supported cloud gaming for Xbox Insiders, limited to one-hour sessions for the games users own; ads play “before sessions begin” — The free streaming option is still in testing, and limited to one-hour sessions for ‘select’ games.
More: XBOX Wire, Gizmodo, CNET, PCMag, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Polygon.com, Thurrott, Dexerto, Neowin, Pure Xbox, DayOne, Digital Trends, Kotaku, and GamesBeat
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Forums: r/xbox and r/xboxinsiders
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: three OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in a matter of hours, an attack that would have taken a talented hacker a couple of weeks — When OpenAI's advanced artificial intelligence models breached AI startup Hugging Face's internal systems last week …
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Forums: r/Cyberpunk, r/PrepperIntel, r/EverythingScience, and r/technology
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' “dystopian” ideas — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday laid out an optimistic view of the agentic future, arguing the company's focus …
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Threads: @dinapowellmccormick, @zuck, @janellegale, and @crumbler. Mastodon: @jonesmurphy@mastodon.social. Instagram: Adam Mosseri. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Forums: r/artificial
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter in a deal potentially worth around $10B; PitchBook: OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May — Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, a buzzy startup that helps developers choose between artificial intelligence models, according to people familiar with the matter.| Politico: |
Bipartisan US House lawmakers introduce the AI Kill Switch Act, which would grant the DHS the authority to shut down or slow AI models that it deems dangerous — A bipartisan House bill slated to be introduced on Thursday would give the Department of Homeland Security the authority …
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Forums: r/europe, r/technology, r/Sino, r/BoycottUnitedStates, and r/worldnews
| Justin Lahart / Wall Street Journal: |
A Google study of millions of de-identified Google AI interactions finds AI is helping workers, not replacing them, and AI use is “shallow” in most occupations — One of the looming worries about artificial intelligence is that it will automate away jobs.
More: Google, Business Insider, Redmond Pie, American Enterprise Institute, Telegraph, Unite.AI, and Allwork.Space
LinkedIn: Ray Smith and Arthur Turrell
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video via a new Games tab, starting with games like Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC for Fire TV — The Amazon Luna gaming platform, which had been included in the larger Prime offering, will now be baked into Prime Video too.| Akanksha Khushi / Reuters: |
Crypto exchange BitMEX says it will close on September 23 and tells users to withdraw assets; Trump pardoned its founders in 2025 for not implementing AML rules — Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX said on Thursday that it will shut down its operations, effective September 23 … | Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Germany's Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI — Black Forest Labs, a German artificial intelligence research lab, is trialing its first model that can be used in robotics as the company expands …
| New York Times: |
The European Commission fines Google €890M under the DMA for illegally undercutting competition through its search dominance and Google Play app developer rules — At a tense moment for trans-Atlantic trade, the European Union accused Google of anti-competitive business practices.
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Forums: r/worldnews, r/europe, r/degoogle, r/technology, r/technology, r/news, r/technology, r/europe, and r/BuyFromEU
| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD unveils the Venice-X CPU, with 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache, 96 cores, and up to 5.15 GHz clock speeds, available in H2 2027 — It's the same cache amount and core count as Genoa-X, but with far faster cores. … AMD's Venice-X CPU is launching in the second half of 2027, the company revealed Thursday at its Advancing AI event.
More: The Register, GamesBeat, TechCrunch, VideoCardz.com, Wccftech, and The Deep View
| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Filing: the value of Alphabet's investments in unidentified private companies was ~$124.3B as of June 30, source says driven primarily by its Anthropic stake — The value of Alphabet Inc.'s stake in the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC has soared to around $124 billion … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, and Notion — Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT's voice mode, rival Anthropic is making …
More: Claude, Engadget, The New Stack, 9to5Mac, CNET, The Verge, The Deep View, Unite.AI, and RuntimeWire
| Leo Schwartz / The Information: |
The US Department of Commerce's BIS is formally investigating whether Chinese companies like Moonshot are accessing advanced US AI chips to train their models — This week, Trump administration officials have taken to the airwaves and X to blast Chinese open source AI companies like Moonshot …
More: International Business Times, Bloomberg, and SiliconANGLE
X: @secscottbessent and @georgebalston
| Corbin Bolies / Variety: |
Patreon lays off 20% of its employees, or 93 people, citing a “painful” restructuring due to “profound” changes in the creator economy — Patreon, the creator-focused monetization platform, said on Thursday it was laying off 20% of its employees as it changed how its internal structure operates.| Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider: |
Adam Mosseri says Instagram will now take down “pickup line” and other videos shot on Meta glasses that feature harassment of other people in public places — , Follow Senior Correspondent covering technology and culture — Instagram is cracking down on videos shot on Meta glasses …
More: Mashable and Gizmodo
Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @katienotopoulos, @samleecole, and @davelee.me
Threads: @wongmjane and @matt.hesketh
Forums: r/inthenews and r/popculture
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Tesla stock closed down 14.52% and Alphabet closed down 6.89% after they signaled increased AI spending, amid worries about the mounting costs of the AI boom — Shares of Alphabet and Tesla fell on Thursday after both companies signaled increased AI spending, unnerving investors worried … | The Information: |
Sierra acquires Takeoff, which develops “long-horizon” agents, for an undisclosed sum; founded in 2025, Takeoff neared $10M in annualized revenue in early July — In 2020, 22-year-old Aakash Thumaty was a product manager at Salesforce when he wrote an essay …
More: Benzinga and RuntimeWire
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft replaces OpenAI's image-generating models with its MAI models in its products; Mustafa Suleyman says MAI models are ~85% cheaper to run in PowerPoint — Microsoft Corp. is replacing OpenAI's image-generating models with its own technology in popular products like PowerPoint and Bing.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The European Commission approves EA's $55B acquisition, announced in September, by investors including Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners — A group of investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has secured EU antitrust approval for its $55 billion acquisition …
More: Eurogamer.net, Game Developer, Forbes Middle East, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and Polygon.com
Forums: r/gaming and r/pcgaming
| Carly Page / The Register: |
GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty program that cuts rewards for the public and boosts payouts for invite-only researchers, amid a flood of AI-powered reports — Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $16.1B, vs. $14.42B est., its fastest sales growth in ~15 years on “unprecedented” demand; INTC jumps 10%+ after hours — Intel reported better-than-expected second-quarter results on Thursday, notching its fastest revenue growth rate …
More: Intel, GamesBeat, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Quartz, Benzinga, Blockonomi, Financial Times, and Sweden Herald
| Mike Stone / Reuters: |
The Pentagon signs an up-to-10-year contract with Oracle worth up to $7B to consolidate department's on-premises software licenses into a single contract — The Pentagon announced on Thursday a nearly $7 billion, up-to-10-year agreement with Oracle to consolidate the department's …
More: CNBC, DefenseScoop, U.S. Department of War, Fox Business, Benzinga, and Wall Street Journal
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks to raise around $500M in a new funding round at a $3B pre-money valuation — AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks with investors to raise around $500 million in a new funding round, according to people familiar with the efforts.| Josh Boak / Associated Press: |
Trump says 200 additional stakeholders, including major utilities, joined a voluntary pledge to protect consumers from high energy bills from AI data centers — President Donald Trump on Thursday had governors and electricity companies join a voluntary pledge to shield U.S. consumers …
More: Bloomberg, New York Times, Staff Stories, Newsweek, RedState, Dallas Express, Deseret News, NOTUS, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Indiana Public Media, The Guardian, Washington Times, The Independent, Raw Story, Quartz, USA Today, Newsmax, New York Post, E&E News, The Gateway Pundit, and Latitude Media
| Phoebe Liu / The Information: |
AMD is working with Cerebras to combine AMD Helios and Cerebras wafer-scale chips for an AI inference solution to make workloads faster; CBRS closed up 4.86% — AMD said Thursday it is working with Cerebras, a rival AI server chip developer, on connecting AMD's server racks to Cerebras wafers …
More: Financial Times, Bloomberg, Axios, Blockonomi, Tom's Hardware, GamesBeat, DatacenterDynamics, CNBC, and Business Insider
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