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September 2, 2026, 10:25 AM

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Anthropic:
Anthropic releases 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:
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
The FBI is investigating Nexus, a new ID theft service on the dark web claiming to sell 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 …
Wired:
OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra “soon”, but will give access to “its most advanced cyber capabilities” only to testers and partners  —  The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.
The Information:
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional:
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of “rogue AI”, and may presage truly “self-sovereign” agents and swarms of agents that have no “owner”  —  The Coming of Userless Agents  —  The OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident is an early example of an AI system that has “gone rogue.”
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a new Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources including PubMed  —  OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic's electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data …
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Memo: Uber is cutting ~3,300 jobs, or 10% of its staff globally, to reduce management layers and reallocate spending into ride-sharing, delivery, and robotaxis  —  Uber Technologies Inc. is cutting about 3,300 roles, or 10% of its staff globally, in a massive restructuring aimed …
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
NYC's Department of Education adopts a policy barring public school students from using AI until high school, banning companion chatbots in all grades, and more  —  A new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using A.I., but stops short of a moratorium.
Kai Williams / Understanding AI:
A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome  —  A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics.  —  Today's Robot Week article is sponsored by 80,000 Hours …
More: Financial Times.  X: @chi_t_williams and @binarybits.  LinkedIn: Arvind Narayanan.  Bluesky: @frankpasquale.  Forums: Hacker News
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Valencia-based iPronics raised $125M co-led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street, with participation from Nvidia, to develop optical circuit switch tech  —  Valencia, Spain-based startup iPronics said Tuesday that it has raised $125 million in venture capital with participation from Nvidia …
More: The Register
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.
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 …
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%+  —  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.
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.
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.
Reuters:
The US urges G20 members to avoid writing entirely new AI regulations, and instead focus on writing rules for “novel” situations that involve the tech  —  The U.S. pressed G20 members on Tuesday to take a hands-off approach to AI regulation and avoid creating new rules …
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
Dell unveils the student-focused Dell 14S, with Intel Wildcat Lake chips and starting with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, in a bid to rival the MacBook Neo  —  The Dell 14S promises an aluminum build, Intel Wildcat Lake chips, and lots of battery life — for a price we don't know exactly yet.
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 will get ~$47M as executive chair  —  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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