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September 2, 2026, 5:15 AM

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Anthropic:
Anthropic unveils Claude Fable 5.1, which is generally available, and Mythos 5.1, for trusted partners and with cybersecurity and life sciences safeguards  —  We're introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1.  They're the world's most advanced models for coding and knowledge work …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Anthropic launches Enterprise Frontier Safeguards to let businesses control how their data is reviewed, stored, and managed, after pushback from customers  —  Anthropic on Tuesday announced it will walk back a controversial data retention policy after “a lot of feedback” from its business customers …
Wired:
OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra “soon”, but will make its “most advanced cyber capabilities” available only to select partners  —  The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple updates Apple Maps to show Lake America for US users, Lake Ontario for Canadian users, and both for the rest of the world, following Trump's EO  —  Apple Inc. renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” on its maps service, following a similar move by Alphabet Inc.'s Google, in the wake of an order from US President Donald Trump.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Dell reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $46.97B, above $44.92B est., and forecasts $192B in FY 2027 revenue, above $172.67B est.; DELL jumps 9%+ pre-market  —  Dell Technologies shares moved 9% higher in extended trading on Tuesday after the computer maker reported results and a forecast that easily cleared Wall Street expectations.
World Labs:
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs unveils Atlas, a multimodal world model that generates image/video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D  —  World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world.  They understand how worlds appear, behave …
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Q&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more  —  “This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get.”  —  Ajeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat modeling …
Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional:
Erin Woo / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3.8 Flash as soon as Wednesday; Gemini 4 has done well on pre-training evals, but still needs to complete post-training  —  Internal tests of Gemini 3.8 Flash show progress in an area where the company has lagged behind Anthropic and OpenAI.
Meta AI Research:
Meta launches Muse Voice Transcribe, MSL's first real-time audio perception model, with streaming automatic speech recognition, trained with 70+ languages  —  Experience Muse Voice Transcribe in real time … We're excited to introduce Muse Voice Transcribe, the first real …
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.41B, above $3.35B est., and acquires Console, which provides AI-powered IT service management  —  Palo Alto Networks surpassed fiscal fourth-quarter estimates as mounting artificial intelligence risks boost demand for its cybersecurity tools.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Filing: Apple says John Ternus will get a ~$58M compensation package in FY 2027, including a $3M base salary, while Tim Cook's executive chair role pays ~$47M  —  Apple Inc. said that new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus will get a compensation package worth about $58 million in fiscal 2027 …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Cognition is raising around $1B at a ~$47B valuation, up from $26B in May; Cognition received nearly $10B in investor interest  —  Artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc. is set to close a new round of funding that would vault its valuation to about $47 billion, according to people familiar with the efforts.
CJ Haddad / CNBC:
SemiAnalysis:
A look at South Korea's sovereign AI efforts, including its planned $919B AI infrastructure investment and Nvidia's expanded ties with Samsung and SK Hynix  —  Korea hosts a Squid Games, National AI Tournament, the best non-Chinese open source model gets eliminated, why Nvidia needs open source, implications for Hynix and Samsung
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
The FBI is investigating a new ID theft service called Nexus, which claims to have digital scans of 153M+ drivers licenses from people in the US and Canada  —  A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada.
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Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
Google rolls out its September Android Drop, with remembered items in Find Hub, Guided vision in Gemini Live, Motion Assist to reduce motion sickness, and more  —  Let's be frank: Some of Google's recent Android feature Drops have been duds, offering little more than an expansion of Gemini summaries and chat functions.

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