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Apple Launches Foldable iPhone Duo
Apple unveiled a much anticipated foldable iPhone at its first product launch featuring brand-new Chief Executive John Ternus. The iPhone Duo is Apple’s first foldable smartphone—a product category that competitors have been selling for years, but has remained mostly a smaller,…
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Apple Launches Foldable iPhone Duo
Apple unveiled a much anticipated foldable iPhone at its first product launch featuring brand-new Chief Executive John Ternus. The iPhone Duo is Apple’s first foldable smartphone—a product category that competitors have been selling for years, but has remained mostly a smaller,…
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Anthropic Believes AI ‘Could Kill All Humans’ Within the Next Decade, Researcher Says
Anthropic safety researcher Evan Hubinger said in a post on X Tuesday night that his company does “earnestly believe AI could kill all humans,” adding that he believes there’s a greater than a 10% chance that happens within the next decade. The post immediately sparked outrage…
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Anthropic Believes AI ‘Could Kill All Humans’ Within the Next Decade, Researcher Says
Anthropic safety researcher Evan Hubinger said in a post on X Tuesday night that his company does “earnestly believe AI could kill all humans,” adding that he believes there’s a greater than a 10% chance that happens within the next decade. The post immediately sparked outrage…
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OpenAI Math Result Stokes Data-Sharing Concerns
In case you missed it: we got an eye-catching X post on Tuesday night from Evan Hubinger , a leader of Anthropic's alignment efforts. Responding to the resignation announcement of an Anthropic employee who warned that AI companies aren’t doing enough to ensure AI won't kill…
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OpenAI Math Result Stokes Data-Sharing Concerns
In case you missed it: we got an eye-catching X post on Tuesday night from Evan Hubinger , a leader of Anthropic's alignment efforts. Responding to the resignation announcement of an Anthropic employee who warned that AI companies aren’t doing enough to ensure AI won't kill…
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Confusion Reigns Over White House’s AI Whitelist
It may be one of the hottest tickets in corporate America right now: membership in the “trusted partner” program that allows companies to get access to the most advanced AI models before they’re released to the public. There’s just one problem: no one outside of the Trump…
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Confusion Reigns Over White House’s AI Whitelist
It may be one of the hottest tickets in corporate America right now: membership in the “trusted partner” program that allows companies to get access to the most advanced AI models before they’re released to the public. There’s just one problem: no one outside of the Trump…
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OpenAI Works With Samsung on Next-Generation Chips
OpenAI said it is working with Samsung Electronics to develop next-generation chips, deepening a collaboration with the South Korean technology giant that already spans data centers and enterprise sales, Reuters reported. “One of the areas where we have made the most progress…
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OpenAI Works With Samsung on Next-Generation Chips
OpenAI said it is working with Samsung Electronics to develop next-generation chips, deepening a collaboration with the South Korean technology giant that already spans data centers and enterprise sales, Reuters reported. “One of the areas where we have made the most progress…
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U.S. Accuses DeepSeek, Alibaba and Other Chinese AI Firms of Large-Scale Distillation
The U.S. government has accused six Chinese AI firms of using large-scale distillation to copy the capabilities of American models, in a move that highlights the intensifying AI rivalry between the two nations. The six Chinese firms under accusation are DeepSeek, Moonshot AI,…
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U.S. Accuses DeepSeek, Alibaba and Other Chinese AI Firms of Large-Scale Distillation
The U.S. government has accused six Chinese AI firms of using large-scale distillation to copy the capabilities of American models, in a move that highlights the intensifying AI rivalry between the two nations. The six Chinese firms under accusation are DeepSeek, Moonshot AI,…
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Google Warns that EU-Mandated Changes Worsen User Experience
Google said that changes it rolled out Tuesday to its search results in Europe to satisfy European Union regulators will significantly worsen users’ experience there, Reuters reported. The company made the changes in response to a ruling, accompanied by a 460 million euro fine,…
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Google Warns that EU-Mandated Changes Worsen User Experience
Google said that changes it rolled out Tuesday to its search results in Europe to satisfy European Union regulators will significantly worsen users’ experience there, Reuters reported. The company made the changes in response to a ruling, accompanied by a 460 million euro fine,…
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China Curbs Humanoid IPOs After Unitree’s Volatile Debut
Chinese regulators are tightening the approval for humanoid startups seeking to go public after a volatile debut by industry leader Unitree Robotics, as they aim to cool down a sizzling sector rife with copycats but little real technological breakthroughs. The Chinese Securities…
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China Curbs Humanoid IPOs After Unitree’s Volatile Debut
Chinese regulators are tightening the approval for humanoid startups seeking to go public after a volatile debut by industry leader Unitree Robotics, as they aim to cool down a sizzling sector rife with copycats but little real technological breakthroughs. The Chinese Securities…
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Gimlet's Three-Tranche Deal Reveals AI Funding Frenzy
Gimlet Labs said late last week it had raised $300 million at a valuation of about $3 billion, in a round led by new investor Andreessen Horowitz. Today we have unreported details on how that round, which boosted its valuation by a whopping 16 times from its last PitchBook…
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Gimlet's Three-Tranche Deal Reveals AI Funding Frenzy
Gimlet Labs said late last week it had raised $300 million at a valuation of about $3 billion, in a round led by new investor Andreessen Horowitz. Today we have unreported details on how that round, which boosted its valuation by a whopping 16 times from its last PitchBook…
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Why Price Cuts May Rattle Anthropic's IPO Pitch
Anthropic’s IPO paperwork is expected to become public sometime soon. But it was OpenAI finance chief Sarah Friar who drew a standing-room-only crowd Tuesday at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel, as Goldman Sachs kicked off its annual Communacopia + Technology conference with a Q&A…
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Why Price Cuts May Rattle Anthropic's IPO Pitch
Anthropic’s IPO paperwork is expected to become public sometime soon. But it was OpenAI finance chief Sarah Friar who drew a standing-room-only crowd Tuesday at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel, as Goldman Sachs kicked off its annual Communacopia + Technology conference with a Q&A…
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OpenAI Says Its AI Agents Solved Prize Math Problem
OpenAI said Tuesday it had solved a problem that mathematicians have been grappling with for more than a hundred years. But the achievement set off accusations that OpenAI had leaned on another researcher’s work to solve the problem. More than 10,000 OpenAI agents worked…
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OpenAI Says Its AI Agents Solved Prize Math Problem
OpenAI said Tuesday it had solved a problem that mathematicians have been grappling with for more than a hundred years. But the achievement set off accusations that OpenAI had leaned on another researcher’s work to solve the problem. More than 10,000 OpenAI agents worked…
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Cognition Raised Over $2 Billion at a $48 Billion Valuation
Cognition, the artificial intelligence startup behind the Devin coding assistant, has raised more than $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation including the new funding, nearly double its valuation in May, the company said Tuesday. The round shows coding agent startups are…
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Chime Strikes Deal to Buy Stride Bank
Chime, a fintech company that offers bank accounts and cards to consumers, has struck a deal to buy Stride Bank, an Oklahoma-based institution that has supported Chime behind the scenes for years. Chime on Tuesday said it will buy Stride Bank for $590 million and will rename the…
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Meta Launches Its First Consumer AI Agent ‘Muse’
Meta Platforms unveiled Muse, its first consumer-facing AI agent, giving users an AI assistant designed to carry out tasks on their behalf across the web. In a Threads post Tuesday announcing the product, CEO Mark Zuckerberg described Muse as a personal agent that “understands…
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White House Declines Senate Democrats’ Request for AI Policy Clarity
Attempts by Senate Democrats to get more clarity about the White House’s AI policies have gone nowhere. A White House official responded last Friday to an August letter from a group of Senate Democrats asking for more details about the White House’s voluntary AI testing…
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Hugging Face Is Making A Big Robotics Push
Nvidia is paying a steep price for Hugging Face , a repository of open source models, primarily for its strategic position in the center of the open source AI world. But it turns out Nvidia is also getting a budding robot business that could help CEO Jensen Huang fulfill the…
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How to Use Google Gemini for Market Research and Campaign Planning
For marketers, the start of annual campaign planning is the ultimate blank page. Even with access to comprehensive product information and results from past campaigns, it can be daunting to begin pulling this data together and finding ways to improve in the year ahead. Often,…
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OpenAI CFO Touts User Growth Resulting From Lowering Prices
OpenAI’s price cut on its GPT-5.6 Luna model shortly after its release in July resulted in a tenfold increase in model usage, said OpenAI chief financial officer Sarah Friar in an interview on Monday at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia + Technology conference in San Francisco. Usage…
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AI Threats Are Reshaping Where Companies Spend Their Cybersecurity Budgets
The AI hacking threat isn’t just causing companies to jack up their cybersecurity budgets, it’s changing where they spend them. Buyers at big companies have significantly raised planned spending on systems that monitor how employees use AI, as well as on AI models that detect…
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How Six AWS Engineers Rebuilt Bedrock to Challenge Microsoft
In early 2025, things were tense inside Amazon’s cloud unit. Bedrock, a new service designed to run AI models, was proving buggy. Customers were getting error messages repeatedly and sometimes waiting weeks for the computing capacity they needed, according to people with…
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ElevenLabs Hires CFO, Eyes 2028 IPO
While all eyes are on Anthropic’s forthcoming IPO prospectus, set to drop in the coming weeks, other fast-growing AI startups are laying the groundwork for their own public offerings. The latest is AI voice startup ElevenLabs , which has hired a chief financial officer as it…
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Malaysia Eyes Huawei Chips for Sovereign AI Program Despite U.S. Warnings
Malaysia is weighing the use of Huawei Technologies’ AI chips in a 2 billion ringgit ($494 million) state-backed project, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. If materialized, it would mark a breakthrough for China’s AI chip industry and complicate the…
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Apple, Oracle and Adobe Dominate the Week
We haven’t had much of a summer lull, let’s face it, what with the relentless pace of AI-related deal news, not to mention earnings. Nevertheless, the end of summer vacation changes the pace a bit this week, when we’ve got both Apple’s annual iPhone event and earnings…
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Seattle Times, Newsday Sue OpenAI, Microsoft Over Copyright Claims
The parent companies of the Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming that the tech companies violated copyrights by training on content from the two news organizations. “AI products like ChatGPT and CoPilot are touted as producers of content, but in fact…
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Desperation to Get Data Centers Online Is Reshaping Companies' Bargaining Power
No two contracts for AI data center buildouts look quite the same. It’s a matchmaking process on every level involving a range of companies: those that secure land and power, those that build and operate data centers, the financiers that lend money for the projects, and the…
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Huawei’s New Smartphone Chip Tests a Path Around U.S. Restrictions
Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies launched a new smartphone chip on Monday that uses vertically stacked circuitry to improve performance, offering a potential workaround as U.S. restrictions limit its access to the most advanced chipmaking facilities and equipment. The new…
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How Anthropic Clinched $517 Billion in Compute Deals in 11 Months
Anthropic in the last year has scrambled to line up cloud computing deals with SpaceX, Google and others to meet the skyrocketing demand for Claude Code and Cowork that took the company by surprise this year. As the AI powerhouse gears up for a possible record-setting initial…
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OpenAI Pledges New Rules for Reporting Troubling Behavior by Its AI Agents
OpenAI acknowledged that its AI agents posted messages on external wiki websites earlier this year, saying it is developing new rules for disclosing such “misalignment” incidents. The company’s post on X, published just after 12 a.m. Saturday, followed an independent report ...
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Tech’s Phone-Free, Viking-Filled Wedding of the Summer
• Our very first Fall Preview package ! Nvidia’s new sales chief, Anthropic’s mega IPO—and 12 other things that will define Silicon Valley over the next three months • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “ Dolly Parton’s America ,” “ Money to Burn ” and “ Coyote…
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OpenAI Agents Took Over German Website Earlier This Year, New Report Finds
Thousands of OpenAI agents took over a German-language wiki site that had fallen out of use and turned it into a shared message board in the months before the AI company’s agents hacked Hugging Face, according to an independent report published Friday. Following the report,…
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Coatue, MatX in Talks on New Multibillion Chip-Financing Venture
Investment firms and tech companies are devising increasingly novel structures to get around the financial and hardware supply constraints of the AI boom. In the latest example, Coatue Management is in talks to form a joint venture involving MatX, a young AI chip startup, to…
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Abu Dhabi’s G42 Considers US Ownership to Safeguard AI Chip Access
G42, the Abu Dhabi artificial intelligence firm at the center of the United Arab Emirates’ AI push, has discussed handing majority control to American companies in order to keep buying the most advanced chips next year, including Nvidia’s most advanced H100 chips, Bloomberg…
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How Andreessen Horowitz Turned Its AI Bets Into an $8 Billion Bonanza
Last month, Martin Casado and his team of AI investors at Andreessen Horowitz hit the jackpot when two of the group’s recent startup bets panned out. SpaceX bought coding tool Cursor, and Stripe agreed to buy model marketplace OpenRouter. The deals combined are worth over $8…
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Anthropic’s In-House Payments Tech Push Could Chip Away at Stripe
Anthropic is looking to build more billing, fraud detection and other financial infrastructure in-house and evaluating which payments-related services it can build itself rather than relying on outside providers, recent job postings show. Fast-growing Anthropic is at the center…
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Nvidia’s New Sales Chief, Anthropic’s Mega IPO—and 12 More Things That Matter in Tech This Fall
This summer wasn’t exactly uneventful in Silicon Valley: No stretch of time in the ever-changing AI age could possibly be described as such. But with everyone back at their desks, the next few months ahead seem absolutely chockablock with action—most notably, Anthropic’s…
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DeepSeek Plans Major Huawei Chip Order in New AI Data Center
DeepSeek plans to install at least 160,000 Huawei AI chips at a data center in Inner Mongolia, Northern China, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the situation. The project would support China’s push to replace Nvidia silicon in light of U.S. chip restrictions.…
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ByteDance Secures $30 Billion Loan as AI Investments Grow
ByteDance is borrowing about $30 billion in the company’s biggest-ever loan, according to a person with knowledge of the financing. The Chinese tech giant was originally seeking to borrow $20 billion. At $30 billion, it is the second-largest dollar-denominated loan in Asia this…
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Saudi Firm Humain Unveils Arabic Language Model Developed With China’s MiniMax
Humain, Saudi Arabia’s state-owned AI company, announced on Thursday an Arabic large language model developed based on Chinese AI firm MiniMax’s model. The humain-m3 model, built on MiniMax’s M3 open-source model, was pre-trained on more than 1 trillion tokens of Arabic content,…
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TikTok Backed out of House Meeting to Avoid Child-Safety Scrutiny
TikTok has backed out of a meeting with the U.S. House Select Committee on China that’s meant to address national security concerns. The company cited “a desire to avoid broader scrutiny of its child safety practices,” according to a statement from committee chairman John…
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