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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 …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic says Fable 5.1 sets new standards on coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks, and can fix the root causes of software issues — It's only the first day of September 2026, but the month and fall season are already off to the races in AI land …
More: Every, Claude, Bloomberg, and The Neuron
| Wired: |
OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra “soon” but will make its 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.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/BetterOffline, and r/accelerate
| The Information: |
Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses “recurrent depth”, a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor — OpenAI says its forthcoming AI model Astra marks a step up in capabilities such as coding and operating applications on a computer.| 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 …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Dell reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $46.97B, vs. $44.92B est., and forecasts $192B in FY 2027 revenue, vs. $172.67B est.; DELL jumps 9%+ after hours — 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.| 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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X: @artemr, @mishaalrahman, @ssamat, @android, @android, and @newsfromgoogle
Forums: r/GooglePixel and Ars OpenForum
| 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.
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Threads: @karaswisher, @carnage4life, @karaswisher, and @chriswelch
Forums: r/applemaps and r/apple
| 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.
More: Gizmodo and RuntimeWire
X: @kimmonismus, @alexeheath, @hesamation, and @gavinpurcell
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| 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 …
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| Mariapaula Gonzalez / Barron's Online: |
MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 30% YoY to $771.8M, vs. $735M est., Atlas revenue up ~29% YoY, below major hedge funds' expectations; MDB drops 12%+ after hours — McCormick's Rebound Is Starting to Look Seasoned — Sea Limited Is an E-Commerce Winner. This Chart Screams It. — 0&| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.41B, vs. $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.| 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 …
More: Anthropic, Politico, PYMNTS, and Blockchain.News
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| Monique Mulima / Bloomberg: |
IPO filing: SB Energy says it has 8.8GW of data center capacity contracted or under construction across Texas and Ohio and a $430B data center segment backlog — SB Energy Inc., a data center firm backed by SoftBank Group Corp., filed for a US initial public offering to fund …
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| CJ Haddad / CNBC: |
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| Michelle Kim / MIT Technology Review: |
Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the Sun's nearest star system, by 2029, using a trajectory discovered by PSI's AI system — A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of 2029.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Apple says John Ternus will get a compensation package worth ~$58M in FY 2027, while Tim Cook's role as executive chairman will pay ~$47M — Apple Inc. said that new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus will get a compensation package worth about $58 million in fiscal 2027 …
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X: @markgurman and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Reuters: |
At G20 meeting the US urged members to avoid writing entirely new AI regulations, while Mark Zuckerberg urged countries not to restrict open-weight AI models — The U.S. pressed G20 members on Tuesday to take a hands-off approach to AI regulation and avoid creating new rules for the technology …
More: Wall Street Journal, CNET, The Economic Times, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Benzinga, Quartz, and The Guardian. LinkedIn: Mohamed El-Erian
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google launches Google Pics, a creative design suite powered by Gemini and Nano Banana to compete with Canva and Adobe Express, available as a Workspace app — This new image generation and editing app is bringing graphic design to Google Workspace.
More: Google, TechCrunch, Social Media Today, SammyGuru, Neowin, Android Police, WeRSM, MakeUseOf, Digital Trends, and Engadget
LinkedIn: Meg Whittenberger and Vijay Farmah
| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
Sources: AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, has hit a valuation of $3.2B, up from $300M in April, and is profitable — Twenty three year-old Spencer Mateega pivoted his YC startup into the fastest unicorn in the accelerator's history, fueling … | Business Insider: |
Memo: Alexandr Wang says Meta is switching from Google Chat to Slack for internal communications as Slack is the “strongest platform available today for agents” — - Meta is migrating to Slack for internal communications, a memo from AI chief Alexandr Wang says.
More: The Information and The Next Web
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Threads: @lvchaoshuai, @wongmjane, and @maxpx0
| 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.
More: RuntimeWire
| Kalley Huang / New York Times: |
John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO and Tim Cook becomes executive chair; sources say Laura Legros, an Apple hardware VP who retired in 2022, has rejoined Apple — Big technology and management changes are greeting John Ternus, whose long-serving predecessor, Tim Cook, will stay on as executive chair.
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Forums: r/technology and MacRumors Forums
| Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters: |
Starman Optical buys a majority stake in GoPro for $285M in cash, a 29.5% premium to its last close; GoPro hit a $4B market cap on its first trading day in 2014 — Action camera maker GoPro (GPRO.O) said on Tuesday it is being acquired by Starman Optical in an all-cash deal valued at $285 million.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Nvidia says it will launch DLSS 5 on September 3 on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now, following a divisive announcement in March — DLSS 5 is almost here, but only for NBA 2K27, and only officially for 50-series RTX GPUs.
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Forums: r/MicrosoftFlightSim, r/RTX5080, r/pcmasterrace, r/GamersMY, r/pcgaming, r/RTX5080, and r/nvidia
| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
SciFin, which helps revenue teams converge fragmented information to understand business needs, raised a $44M seed co-led by Altimeter and Madrona — SciFin Tech Inc., a company that helps revenue teams converge context across disconnected systems to understand business needs, launched today with $44 million in seed funding.Sponsor Posts
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