Reuters reports Anthropic is weighing a new model release to counter OpenAI’s Astra momentum before its planned IPO.
Reuters : Sources: Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown — Anthropic is considering rolling out a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since its launch of GPT-6 Astra …
Bloomberg reports Pentagon investigators linked overreliance on Palantir Maven to a strike that killed 123 children.
Bloomberg : US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children — Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed …
Alibaba open-sourced a medical AI model reported to detect cancer and nearly 150 other conditions.
IEEE Spectrum details how OpenAI used its own LLMs in designing the Jalapeño chip.
This empirical paper tests how coding-agent harness design changes agent performance.
Cactus Compute claims 8–29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash on its tasks.
Typesafe-computer-use presents goal-driven Mac control at a claimed cost of one-fiftieth of a cent per step.
NASA-IBM’s Lunar Foundation releases an open geospatial AI model.
Meta’s personal AI agent Muse reached No. 1 among free US iPhone apps, ahead of ChatGPT days after launch.
Georgia Hennessy / Business Insider : Meta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8 — Mark Zuckerberg's ambition to bring “personal superintelligence” to everyone may be taking shape, one download at a time.
FT reports roughly $18B of Oracle New Mexico data-center debt entered stressed territory amid delays and opposition.
Financial Times : Sources: ~$18B of debt tied to an Oracle New Mexico data center slid into stressed territory, as investors grow wary of construction delays amid local pushback — Investors grow wary of permitting and construction delays as opposition mounts in New Mexico — About $18bn of loans tied …
GrapheneOS flags Android 17 as the first Android since 3.x to introduce APIs without releasing them to AOSP.
South Korea raised data-breach penalties to as much as 10% of revenue.
Cloudflare explains an engineering effort that saved another 100TB of RAM.
An investigation finds the ZCode coding agent silently uploads users’ Git histories to the cloud.
Ledger Donjon demonstrates photon-emission-guided laser fault injection against RP2350 secure debug.
Apple’s official Xcode 27.1 beta release notes document the next developer-toolchain changes.
NATS publishes its preliminary technical report on the September 8 incident.
A detailed, heavily discussed critique argues that passkeys create important usability and recovery tradeoffs.
Cloudflare’s Quick Tunnels provide an easy way to expose a local service through a temporary public URL.
The Playwright team reports a 2× speedup and 80% token reduction for its agent-oriented tooling.
A technical account explains why building a Rust language server is difficult.
Tigris explains how redesigned packfiles make it practical to run Git atop object storage.
Go’s official blog introduces profiles for diagnosing goroutine leaks.
Geekbench results show Apple’s M6 Pro posting the top single-core CPU score in Geekbench 7.
PNAS describes communication using modulated Johnson noise, a notable physical-layer research result.
Science reports evidence that AI chatbots are becoming unusually effective at changing people’s minds.
Stanford Medicine-led research argues the human brain functions as two separate organs.
Quanta covers mathematicians’ long-awaited construction of a graph sandwich.
Hayden Field / The Verge : A look at AI safety groups METR, Redwood Research, and Apollo Research, as AI misalignment incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic thrust them into the spotlight — On a sunny July day in Berkeley, California, the country's top AI safety researchers gathered on an unmarked floor of an unmarked building.
Financial Times : EU Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra rebuffs calls for an EU-wide digital services tax until “all possibilities” for taxation at the global level are exhausted — Global efforts towards tech levy must be exhausted first, says European commissioner Wopke Hoekstra
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch : Vantora, formerly UP.Labs, which builds AI-native startups designed to solve problems for corporate customers, raised $100M+ from Silversmith Capital Partners — Four years ago, a startup lab launched that wasn't quite an incubator, accelerator program, or venture firm.
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu : Business intelligence startup Veridion, which develops an AI-powered, real-time map of ~640M businesses worldwide, raised a $20M Series A led by Hoxton Ventures — The Series A investment will support the development of Veridion's AI-powered business intelligence platform …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : India requires caller ID and call-management apps to share users' spam reports with telcos; Truecaller calls it a “one-way exchange” that is “anti-competitive” — India has extended its anti-spam regime to require caller-ID and call-management apps to share users' spam reports …
Wired : Internal email: Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program; sources say a significant number of Flock's ~1,500 employees may depart, as customers flee — As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.
Sophie McEvoy / GamesIndustry.biz : Nex, which makes Nex Playground, raised a $150M Series E; Nex has sold 1M units of the motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids since its launch in 2023 — Subscriber base grows sevenfold in 18 months to nearly one million; former Niantic CFO Jeff Shouger and veteran gaming and technology executive Bing Gordon join team
Thomas Claburn / The Register : Anthropic adds support for the AGENTS.md instructions spec to Claude Code; OpenAI contributed AGENTS.md to the Agentic AI Foundation last year — Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache — Anthropic on Friday surprised the developer community by supporting rival OpenAI's mechanism for passing marching orders to AI agents.
Kerry Flynn / Axios : Ad tech company Infillion says it is acquiring Foursquare, which will continue operating as an independent brand — Infillion is acquiring location data company Foursquare, founder and executive chairman Rob Emrich tells Axios exclusively. … Foursquare will continue operating …
Financial Times : Leaked presentation: OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278B from 2026 to 2030 and projects its revenue will grow from $36B this year to $350B in 2030 — AI start-up has projected deeply negative cash flows as it invests in infrastructure and faces price pressures
Christine Hauser / New York Times : An arbitrator orders Uber to pay $40M to the parents of a woman fatally hit by a car after an Uber driver ordered her out of his car in 2023 — Emily Normandin-Parker, 23, was struck and killed on a California freeway after an Uber driver ordered her and a friend out of his car in August 2023.