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September 15, 2026, 6:15 AM

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New York Times:
Jensen Huang took a surprise call from President Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in LA, where the two dismissed fears of an AI takeover  —  Mr. Trump called Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, while Mr. Huang was onstage in Los Angeles and criticized calls to slow down and regulate A.I.
MS NOW:
Sources: Trump met privately with Sam Altman backstage at the GOP midterm convention, where they discussed AI and its growing power, at Altman's request  —  Altman, Elon Musk and Anthropic chief Dario Amodei all urged an artificial intelligence slowdown over the weekend.
Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg:
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Apple rolls out iOS 27, watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, visionOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, all with Siri AI for English devices, new app icons and widgets, and more  —  watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 also debut today. … Apple is now rolling out its iOS 27 update to compatible devices today …
Dan Moren / Six Colors:
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
Netherlands-based inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M+ Series A co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital, Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries  —  Samsung has backed a Dutch AI chipmaker in a $231 million funding round, amid a boom in investment in alternatives to Nvidia's graphic processing units.
Britney Nguyen / Dow Jones Newswires:
Cybersecurity stocks were the top performers in the S&P 500 on Monday amid escalating AI fears; CrowdStrike rose 14%, Palo Alto Networks 13%, and Fortinet 9%  —  The software sector outperformed the chip sector to a historic degree in the face of escalating AI fears
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI bought Glass Imaging, which is developing AI-powered smartphone camera tech, in a deal valuing it at $300M+, up from a ~$100M valuation in 2025  —  Glass Imaging, valued above $300 million in deal, was founded by former Apple employees  —  OpenAI quietly bought …
Daniel Kokotajlo / @dkokotajlo:
OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans “are losing the ability to evaluate them” while humans rely more on AI to lead research  —  Dan Selsam is a current OpenAI capabilities researcher. (since 2022) He was my boss for a while. He doesn't have a twitter account but has made this public statement of his views on AI risk and sent it to me to share: Dan Selsam's Personal Statement on AI Risk: I have been working on AI for over ...
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Steam Frame review: comfortable to wear and supports multiple ways to play games, but it doesn't feel like a finished product and has only two-hour battery life  —  For nearly three weeks, I've been testing the limits of Valve's Steam Frame, the company's new wearable PC.
Adam Vjestica / The Shortcut:
Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
Anthropic debuts Claude for Financial Advisors, with connectors to investment analytics and wealth-management tools from BlackRock, Addepar, Schwab, and others  —  AI lab Anthropic on Monday launched a set of tools for financial advisers, connecting its Claude chatbot to investment analytics …
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
Google DeepMind AI Safety and Alignment researcher Bilal Chughtai publicly resigns, saying “I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all”  —  An AI researcher who recently resigned from Google DeepMind warned humanity is running out of time to prevent artificial intelligence …
Bryan Shan / SemiAnalysis:
Vera Rubin NVL72 inference tests show up to 7x better token throughput per MW vs. Blackwell on a 1.6T DeepSeek model, above Huang's 3x claim for 1T-3T LLMs  —  Jensen Sandbagging Performance Again, 2x more Annual Profit Per GigaWatt, The More you Buy, The More you Earn, AgentX, InferenceX, Extreme Co-Design
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