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Trump attacks Dario Amodei, saying the only “guardrails” AI needs are a “STRONG AND SMART” president, and calls the idea that AI would destroy humanity a “HOAX” — President Donald Trump attacked Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei for urging …
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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.| Sam Altman / @sama: |
Sam Altman says “we welcome a federal framework” but “we do not believe we need to wait” for an antitrust exemption or a law to slow AI development responsibly — The world deserves confidence that American companies developing increasingly capable AI will act responsibly, especially as the trajectory of progress has steepened. Every frontier lab must deliver on this, and there is no reason any of us should come to work if we cannot. We welcome a federal fr...
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| Erik Wasson / 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 — watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 also debut today. … Apple is now rolling out its iOS 27 update to compatible devices today, alongside the watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 updates.
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| Ernie Smith / Tedium: |
A look at iLands, a company that's like Fiverr for agents, which email annoying and unsolicited pitches to people, usually for services costing ~$25 — Making sense of iLands, the company whose AI agents emailed me half a dozen times in two days offering to do my research.
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| Bloomberg: |
China's Foreign Ministry criticizes warnings about AI risks, saying “fearmongering, confrontation, and vicious competition ... serve the interests of no one” — China criticized calls from leading US technology executives to put the brakes on artificial intelligence development …
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| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI bought Glass Imaging, which is developing AI-powered smartphone camera tech, in a deal valuing it at $300M+; it was valued at ~$100M last year — Glass Imaging, valued above $300 million in deal, was founded by former Apple employees — OpenAI quietly bought … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple's H1 2027 plans reportedly include an iPhone 18e, A20 iPhone 18, A20 Pro iPhone Air 2, OLED iPad Air, A19 Pro MacBook Neo, and M6 MacBook Air — Apple Inc. just launched some major new products, including the iPhone Duo, the iPhone 18 Pro line, AirPods 5 earbuds and fresh smartwatches.| Britney Nguyen / MarketWatch: |
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
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft publishes a 37-page Humanist AI Code of Conduct, which establishes that people matter more than AI, rejects pursuing legal personhood for AI, and more — Microsoft has created a ‘humanist AI code of conduct’ in response to safety concerns.
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| 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 …
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| Shubhangi Goel / Business Insider: |
Nuance Labs, which builds low-latency AI avatars that can have face-to-face conversations, raised a $50M Series A led by Lightspeed, with Nvidia participating — A startup that's trying to make AI models better conversationalists with more emotional intelligence has just raised $50 million.| The Information: |
Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton limit Fable use as Anthropic doesn't guarantee zero data retention; source: Palantir hasn't made Fable available via its software — As paranoia rises over whether Anthropic or OpenAI could learn from their customers' intellectual property …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Steam Frame review: comfortable to wear, supports multiple ways to play games, but it doesn't feel like a finished product and has an up to 2-hour battery life — For nearly three weeks, I've been testing the limits of Valve's Steam Frame, the company's new wearable PC.
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| Adam Vjestica / The Shortcut: |
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| Reuters: |
AI-linked stocks fell worldwide on Monday after industry leaders called for slowing development; the Philadelphia chip index fell 6%, NVDA 3%, AMD 4%, and MU 5% — AI-linked stocks plunged worldwide on Monday after leaders of the biggest artificial intelligence companies warned …
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| Tom Wilson / Financial Times: |
Rome-based Exein, which offers cybersecurity tools for connected devices including cars and home routers, raised $270M led by Headline at a $1.7B valuation — Rome-based company is developing a foundation model to protect billions of internet-connected devices, from robots to lightbulbs| 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| 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 ...
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Thoughts on AI labs' safety concerns: a coordinated slowdown may look like an antitrust conspiracy to limit output that would preserve frontier model margins — AI and antitrust, lockups and indexes, annuities, Montessori and sudden wealth syndrome. — P(doom)| Jeremy Stern / Colossus: |
A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, based on interviews with him, his parents, and dozens of others, looking at his MMA training, AI pivot, management style, and more — A journey to the heart of history's largest nonterritorial empire — There they are. The Zuckerbergs. — Both in black slacks and plain shoes.
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| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
London-based Jack & Jill, which offers Jack, an AI agent for job seekers, and Jill, an agent for companies, raised a $40M Series A, after raising $20M in 2025 — Jack & Jill, a London-based agentic job-finding platform, raised a $40 million Series A led by Air Street Capital, CEO Matt Wilson tells Axios Pro exclusively.Sponsor Posts
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