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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and no merchant consent  —  Amazon says it has cut off Meta's new Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com on behalf of customers …
Adam Clark / Barron's Online:
Intel, AMD, and Arm shares soar on potential CPU demand sparked by the popularity of Meta's Muse; INTC jumps 12%+, AMD is up 8%+, and ARM 15%+
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google unveils Googlebook hardware, with flagship devices from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, offering deep Android integration, coming in October for $899+  —  Googlebook OS hands-on: It's Android, stupid  —  Software  —  Google's main pitch is that Googlebooks should be the laptop of choice for those with Android phones:
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Google's Googlebook OS, built on Android with a Material 3 Expressive and ChromeOS hybrid UI, offers deep Android 17 integration, 10 years of support, and more
xAI:
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7, which it says is better at verifying its own work and managing longer context, available for $2/1M input and $6/1M output tokens  —  SpaceXAI's most powerful model for coding and knowledge work.  Twice as fast, at half the price of comparable models.
Olivia Fletcher / Bloomberg:
Ireland's DPC fines Google €403M over how it processed location data after complaints from European consumer rights groups, and gives it six months to comply  —  Ireland's media watchdog has fined Alphabet Inc.'s Google over how the tech company processed location data after complaints …
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) with 256 GB of RAM review: a dream machine to run local AI agents and a massive leap over M3 Ultra for prompt processing and generation  —  For the past few days, I've been testing the (currently) top-of-the-line M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 256 GB of RAM.
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Apple Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) review: top benchmark scores, high base memory of 96GB, and four to six ultra-fast Thunderbolt 5 ports, but incredibly expensive
Brandon Hill / Tom's Hardware:
Mac mini (late 2026) review: strong M6 performance, faster storage over the M4, and a small footprint, but pricey storage and memory erode its value proposition
Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News:
iPhone 18 Pro teardown: its SoC now sits outside the logic board for better cooling, the variable aperture is thoughtfully designed but hard to repair, and more  —  The iPhone 18 Pro's little mechanical pupil is irresistible.  A bunch of moving parts make for a good excuse to put our brand new camera under the microscope.
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
After hacking incidents and the industry's existential risk warnings, we need a regulatory ban on RSI, as competition drives unchecked autonomous acceleration  —  There's a chasm right now between how artificial intelligence feels to most of us who use it and how A.I. feels out at the experimental frontier of the technology.
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Scott Bessent says the US proposed an AI incident “notification mechanism” to China, and both sides agreed to set up an AI dialogue ahead of the Trump-Xi summit  —  Treasury secretary says sides working towards ‘shared vision’ after talks with Chinese counterpart
Li Yuan / New York Times:
As Xi Jinping visits DC, Chinese economists warn that Beijing is pouring too many resources into AI, which creates few jobs, and is doing little for the economy  —  “The U.S. Lead Over China in AI Is All But Gone.”  “China Is AI-Maxxing.”  “China Just Erased America's AI Lead.”
Kirsten Grind / New York Times:
Investigation: AI hacker house AGI House had 37 incidents logged by police since 2022, many for party-related complaints, as Bay Area tech houses proliferate  —  For the last few years, I have been hearing more about group houses in the Bay Area where tech employees live and work together …
Bloomberg:
Nscale's S-1: Microsoft and Anthropic account for 85% of its $103B in total contract value, only $2.6B of contract value was active as of late August, and more  —  Nscale's 1,000-fold increase in contacts over the last three years is mainly due to two clients thirsty for artificial intelligence …
Yash Roy / Bloomberg:
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says OpenAI's Hugging Face hacking incident in July “is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents”  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the responsibility for the recent hacking incident involving OpenAI's advanced …
Brock E.W. Turner / Axios:
NYC-based Corridor, which uses AI to offer health benefits for small businesses, raised a $16M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures, following a $9M pre-seed  —  Corridor, an AI-native health benefits broker, raised $16 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, CEO Nikhil Aggarwal tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: TechCrunch and FinSMEs
Politico:
A detailed recap of the White House's 19-day standoff with Anthropic, where a jailbreak dispute led officials to bluntly order Dario Amodei to take Fable down  —  On the evening of April 6, an unusual request began making its way from Washington to some of Wall Street's most powerful executives.

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Salon:
Salon, launched in 1995 to cover politics, culture, and more, says it is closing: “business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly”

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Laurie Chen / Reuters:
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
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Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
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