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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 …
More: Fortune, The Verge, Business Today, Neowin, Ace of Spades HQ, Artificial Analysis, Simon Willison's Weblog, Notebookcheck, Digital Trends, Techstrong.ai, The Mac Observer, Trending Topics, Implicator.ai, Cyber Security News, Unite.AI, The Register, The Information, WinBuzzer, The Deep View, Blockchain.News, and Constellation Research
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LinkedIn: Rich O'Connell and Mike Krieger
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @tedunderwood.com, @pekka, and @isolyth.dev
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/claude, r/Anthropic, r/accelerate, r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, r/ClaudeAI, and Slashdot
| 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, MarkTechPost, Help Net Security, Politico, Claude, and PYMNTS
X: @scaling01, @claudeai, @claudeai, @ibrahimdagher20, @_orcaman, @timfduffy, and @curl_justin
LinkedIn: Cat de Jong, Jonathan Pelosi, Iain Mulholland, Eleanor Dorfman, and Jonathan Jager-Hyman. Bluesky: @timfduffy.com
| 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.
More: OpenAI, CoinDesk, Blockonomi, The Verge, WinBuzzer, Neowin, Trending Topics, Forbes Australia, Reuters, Mashable, Cyber Security News, The Information, Agence France-Presse, Mashable, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, and Reuters
X: @sama, @openai, @yonashav, @boazbaraktcs, @kimmonismus, @kimmonismus, @mweinbach, @elder_plinius, @derrickcchoi, @shaunralston, @zephyr_z9, @itszn13, @andrewcurran_, @therealadamg, @firstadopter, @infoxiao, @moyix, @emilyforlini, @angaisb_, @jiaweiliu_, @theobearman, @synthwavedd, @borismpower, @argofowl, @haider1, @tjeparskis, @afinetheorem, @romainhuet, @aiwithsally, @blueemi99, @fouadmatin, @beffjezos, @xiangyuqi_pton, @andrewcurran_, @levie, and @chrisgpt
Forums: r/singularity, r/technology, r/accelerate, r/BetterOffline, and r/OpenAI
| 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.| 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 …
More: OpenAI, Health API Guy, Neowin, Unite.AI, and PYMNTS
| 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.
More: Status, 9to5Mac, The Verge, The Joy of Tech, Reuters, Washington Examiner, AppleInsider, Raw Story, Newser, FOX 32 Chicago, iDrop News, RuntimeWire, Anadolu Ajansı …, PCMag, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, MacRumors, and AppleInsider
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Threads: @carnage4life, @chriswelch, @karaswisher, and @karaswisher
Forums: r/technology, r/applemaps, and r/apple
| 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 …
More: The Information, Implicator.ai, and SiliconANGLE
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| 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 …
More: Dwarkesh Patel on YouTube. X: @dwarkesh_sp, @dwarkesh_sp, @ajeya_cotra, @dwarkesh_sp, and @dwarkesh_sp
| 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: The Hans India, Blockonomi, Android Authority, Gizmodo, NPowerUser, and RuntimeWire
Forums: r/singularity, r/GOOG_Stock, and r/Bard
| 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 …
More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, Implicator.ai, MarkTechPost, Seeking Alpha, Gadget Review, and The Information
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LinkedIn: Johan Schalkwyk and Ozlem Kalinli
| Mariapaula Gonzalez / Barron's Online: |
MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 30% YoY to $771.8M, above $735M est., Atlas revenue up ~29% YoY, below major hedge funds' expectations; MDB drops 12%+ pre-market — McCormick's Rebound Is Starting to Look Seasoned — Sea Limited Is an E-Commerce Winner. This Chart Screams It. — 0&
More: MongoDB, Inc., Blockonomi, SiliconANGLE, Constellation Research, and Investor's Business Daily. X: @quinnypig
| 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.
Forums: Hacker News and r/news
| 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.| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Snap's bet on Specs AR glasses; sources say Evan Spiegel wore them for an interview against internal advice, and planned outside funding never came — As company struggles with profitability, Snap CEO is doubling down on a hardware play that has made some investors wary| 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 …
More: Wall Street Journal, CNET, MediaNama, Seeking Alpha, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Benzinga, and Quartz. LinkedIn: Mohamed El-Erian
| 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
X: @davidnazarov, @drewpusateri, @ricefield, @charlesrollet1, @gergelyorosz, @gergelyorosz, @elenarunsnyc, @gergelyorosz, @gergelyorosz, @gergelyorosz, @gergelyorosz, and @gergelyorosz
Threads: @lvchaoshuai, @wongmjane, and @maxpx0
| 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 …
More: Financial Times, Fortune, Business Today, Digit, Gizmodo, iClarified, Livemint, The Wrap, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, The Hollywood Reporter, and AppleInsider
X: @markgurman and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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: Tech in Asia and RuntimeWire
| 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 …
More: The Information, Axios, and Business Insider
| 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.| 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.
More: Tom's Hardware, VideoCardz.com, How-To Geek, PCMag, Engadget, CNET, Gizmodo, T3, Wccftech, and Notebookcheck
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