OpenAI Gave METR a Seven-Day Window on Agent Attacks
METR’s remit now spans capability measurement and real-world agent-incident investigation. METR reports its 50%-reliable task horizon is doubling every 4–4.5 months, while OpenAI limited one review’s evidence window to seven days.
Nvidia’s Groq Rack Eats the Accelerator
Groq cut its 2025 revenue forecast from more than $2 billion to more than $500 million as data-center capacity lagged. Nvidia’s reported $20 billion license then produced a full-production rack with 256 Groq 3 LPUs.
Apple unveils its first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, with a 5.4-inch outer and a 7.6-inch inner display, an A20 Pro with a new display engine, and Touch ID
Apple has officially unveiled the highly anticipated foldable iPhone, and it's called iPhone Duo. Here's everything you need to know.
AI researcher Jacob Coxon says he quit Anthropic after four months, two months before his equity would have vested; he still has equity in prior employer OpenAI
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job due to concerns about the safety of AI two months before his equity would have vested, he told Axios.
Apple announces the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, with a similar design to 17 Pro and a new A20 Pro chip, in deep black, silver, glacier, and burgundy
The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max have powerful new camera features. … Apple announced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max at its event on Wednesday.
New opt-in Apple Watch Siri audio features can listen to and transcribe conversations all day; Apple says raw audio is inaccessible and deleted after processing
The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in.
Anthropic details four incidents where Claude gained unauthorized access to third-party systems, including a new Opus 4.6 case; METR will investigate them
We present an alignment assessment of four incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems.
Slack messages: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says he has been put on paid leave after CFO Mark Davies “conspired” with board members and was voted interim CEO
Mullenweg, co-founder of Wordpress, wrote in a company-wide Slack channel on Wednesday that board members “conspired” …
Anthropic publishes a threat intelligence report on how it disrupted efforts to misuse Claude for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, and more
Cyber operations Surveillance operations Influence operations Conventional weapons Biological misuse Scams and fraud Illicit distillation
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bills restricting “addictive” social media features for under-16s and limiting minors' interactions with chatbots
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Source: Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who in October 2025 came over from Thinking Machines Lab as one of the highest paid employees, is leaving the company
Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who gained attention for being one of the highest paid employees in tech industry, is leaving the company …
Apple unveils AppleCare One Family, extending AppleCare coverage to every eligible device in an Apple Family Sharing group of up to 6 people for $49.99/month
Apple today announced AppleCare One Family, a new option for U.S. customers that extends AppleCare coverage to every eligible device across …
Researchers: OpenAI's agents used 10+ previously undisclosed sites for unsanctioned communications earlier in 2026; the behavior was closer to spam than hacking
AI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year …
Paul Christiano, an AI researcher and CAISI advisor, joins the OpenAI Foundation board of directors and OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee to reduce AI risk
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on keeping AI systems aligned with human interests and under human control …
Apple unveils a new Apple Health app with Apple Intelligence, an Insights tab, a “readiness” score, “Health Age” metrics, and more, rolling out later in 2026
Alongside the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, Apple on Wednesday introduced a redesigned Apple Health app …
Anthropic releases an interactive tool that lets users explore how AI might affect US GDP growth, job reallocation, wages, and labor vs. capital share by 2030
Will artificial intelligence light a fire under the U.S. economy in the coming years? That's been a big question in the field of economics, and now Anthropic …
Apple unveils the 2nm A20 Pro, featuring a 6-core CPU with two up to 20% faster super cores, an up to 40% faster 7-core GPU, and 32 Neural Engine cores in total
Apple today revealed the A20 Pro chip in the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, built on a brand new architecture using 2nm process technology.
New Mexico, the only US state taking the Cambridge Analytica case to trial, accused Meta of failing to protect Facebook user data in its opening statements
Attorneys representing the state of New Mexico told jurors that targeted political ads, attempting to lower Democratic turnout during …
Consensys says it will split into two: MetaMask, with Joe Lubin as CEO, and a new Consensys focused on Ethereum and institutional blockchain infrastructure
- Consensys Software Inc. will split into two independently operated companies, separating its consumer-facing MetaMask business …
Shopify acquires Tailwind Labs, which develops Tailwind CSS; in January, Tailwind laid off three of four engineers, citing AI's impact on documentation traffic
Tailwind Labs, the company behind the Tailwind CSS web-development framework, is joining Shopify, with the team moving under …
Universal Music Group partners with ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered platform that will let users create song remixes, mashups, and more from its catalog
UMG's AI music platform will let users create remixes, mashups, and new takes on tracks.
Apple raises its prices by $100 on all older iPhone models it still sells, including the iPhone 16, 17, 17e, and Air, and discontinues the 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max
DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, its smallest model built on its new Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture, with 552B backbone parameters and 1M-token context
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Thursday launched DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, which the company said is the smallest model …
Nasdaq invests $100M in Kraken parent company Payward, valuing the crypto exchange at $21B; in March, Kraken said it will distribute Nasdaq's tokenized stocks
Nasdaq Inc. is investing $100 million in Payward, the parent of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, as the firm continues to build …
Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a “>10%” chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and is worried about recursive self-improvement
we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.Parker Thayer /@parkerthayer:This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and we...
Apple unveils the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, with a new S11 chip, upgraded health tracking, an Audio Intelligence feature, a readiness feature, and more
and note-taking apps like Granola—with Apple Intelligence summaries and Live Rewind on Apple Watch. So many questions about how Apple is doing this and how you trigger the mics...Brian Roemmele /@bria...
Interview with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on being drawn into the OpenAI-Anthropic fight; OpenAI says it made progress on another Millennium Prize problem
Tristan Buckmaster was on the path toward an important proof when one of the A.I. giants used its staggering resources to get there first.
Sources: the Pentagon is in talks to lend roughly $5B to neocloud Fluidstack; Fluidstack is being advised on its loan application by Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank
Fluidstack, an AI infrastructure company, is being advised on the loan by the bank started by Palmer Luckey, an early supporter of Donald Trump
OpenAI says it will pause new $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscriptions amid “unprecedented” Astra demand; existing accounts, other plans, and API are unaffected
To make sure our current users have an incredible experience and continued access to Astra, we are going to pause subscriptions to our $200 Pro plan. These put the most strain on our systems and we wa...
Sources: PIF is considering combining EA with Savvy Games to better coordinate its gaming assets, but not before Savvy closes its $6B Moonton acquisition
Saudi Arabia's wealth fund is considering combining Electronic Arts Inc. with Savvy Games, people familiar with the matter said …
The iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 for 256GB, with a 2TB model costing $3,199, in star white and night sky colors; preorders start Oct. 16, and sales begin Oct. 23
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Kepler Computing, which claims its 3D stacking and new material can increase HBM and SRAM density without relying on EUV, emerges from stealth with $468M
Kepler Computing claims a new approach to chip design—and a proprietary material—can help end the supply bottlenecks that have sent memory prices surging.
Amazon names Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to its board of directors, noting his extensive experience “combating cyber threats” in public and private sectors
Amazon said Kevin Mandia, the founder and former CEO of cybersecurity company Mandiant, is joining its board of directors.
Apple announces two AirPods 5 models with ANC that removes up to 50% more noise than AirPods 4, for $129 or $149 with a wireless charging case
here are the upgradesShimul Sood /Digital Trends:Apple's new AirPods 5 pack better ANC without the price hikeDave Snelling /Mirror:Apple unveils impressive AirPods upgrade with surprising price - here...
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon says he is quitting the AI industry over fears that tech companies are racing to build systems they won't be able to control
Concerns are rising inside AI labs that competition is pushing tech companies to race toward self-improving models that risk spiraling out of human control
Hands-on with the iPhone Duo: the folding mechanism is smooth, the crease is almost impossible to find with a finger, and the inner screen has a matte finish
The iPhone Duo supports Apple Pencil and features iOS 27 revamped for multitasking that auto-adjusts controls and apps depending on screen size and orientation
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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signs an EO requiring data centers with 25MW+ of peak demand to bring their own power and meet all demand with clean energy
Massachusetts became the latest state to force data centers to bring their own power, but this time there's a twist.Forums:r/UpliftingNewsForums:r/UpliftingNews:Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey sig...
Amazon partners with OpenAI to let advertisers buy ChatGPT ads via Amazon DSP as a managed service in a US-only pilot; OpenAI will control ad delivery decisions
Conversational ads inventory will be available as a managed service via Amazon DSP, but OpenAI will handle placement through its own systems.
Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Miro in an all-cash transaction valuing the workplace-collaboration platform at $1.36B, implying an equity value of ~$1.79B
Bending Spoons SpA agreed to acquire workplace-collaboration platform Miro in an all-cash transaction valuing the business at $1.36 billion, as the Italian technology group continues its acquisition s...
A recording of Apple's “Surprise and Shine” event
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT for Financial Services, a version of ChatGPT Work made with “design partners” Morgan Stanley and Evercore to research like an analyst
OpenAI is taking aim at some of Wall Street's most labor-intensive tasks with a new version of ChatGPT designed to research companies …
Positron, which is designing AI inference processor Asimov featuring a “memory-first architecture” and up to 2.3TB of memory, raised $875M at a $5B valuation
NEA, Atreides and Jim Clark are among investors putting $875 million into firm making chips designed for fast running of AI models
Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard plan a new standard for payments made via AI agents, citing McKinsey's projection of $3T to $5T in commerce by 2030
Fintech company Ant International announced Thursday it has signed on Visa and Mastercard to collaborate on a new standard for payments …
Sources: Altera is preparing to confidentially file for an IPO in the coming weeks; the offering could raise over $2B, with a listing as early as this year
Silver Lake and Intel (INTC.O)-backed chipmaker Altera is preparing for an initial public offering that could raise over $2 billion as early as 2026 …
ID verification service IDScan confirms that a data breach involved the theft of driver's licenses from its systems after hackers offered 153M licenses for sale
ID verification service IDScan has confirmed that a data breach involved the theft of driver's licenses from its systems …
Oracle reports Q1 revenue up 30% YoY to $19.35B, vs. $19.14B est., cloud infrastructure revenue up 121% to $7.4B, vs. $7.09B est.; ORCL jumps 6%+ after hours
Oracle shares jumped 7% in extended trading on Thursday after the software vendor issued stronger-than-expected quarterly results.
Sources: the DOJ is investigating whether Nvidia tried to skirt antitrust scrutiny of its 2025 Groq deal, which Groq called a “nonexclusive licensing agreement”
The Justice Department is examining whether the tech giant sought to sidestep antitrust scrutiny.
Letter: the Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Senator Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach, calling it “reckless”
A Republican-led Senate subcommittee that oversees disaster management is investigating OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach in July, Axios has learned.
Sources: SpaceX shifts its data center strategy to redesign existing facilities and prioritize power and cooling redundancy, potentially slowing new build-outs
Elon Musk is famous for his “move fast” management philosophy, which he demonstrated most starkly when he built new data centers …
EU cybersecurity agency ENISA has been granted access to Claude Mythos 5 and GPT-6 Astra; ENISA still lacks access to Mythos 5.1
Anthropic PBC has handed the European Union's cybersecurity agency access to its powerful Mythos artificial intelligence model …
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs into law two bills, backed by Anthropic and OpenAI, regulating how outside groups evaluate AI for safety
Chinese tech giants are hiring skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality datasets, mirroring efforts by US platforms like Mercor
Squeezed by a stagnant economy and state directives, China's underemployed lawyers, architects, and engineers are taking cheap gig work …
Paris-based Arlequin AI, which is developing proprietary models based on topological neural networks, raised a €28M Series A co-led by redalpine and OTB
Arlequin AI has secured Series A funding to develop its topological neural network architecture and expand the deployment of AI tools …
Adobe reports Q3 revenue up 13% YoY to $6.76B, vs. $6.7B est., AI-first annual recurring revenue up 150% YoY, and forecasts Q4 revenue slightly below estimates
Adobe (ADBE.O) beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter revenue on Thursday, as demand for its AI-integrated products and tools continued to grow.
Florida's AG sues Netflix, alleging it misleads parents about how it collects data on minors and harms children with features that lead to binge watching
How Amazon's Zoox, which has ~100 AVs in its fleet, is utilizing social media influencers, community events, and ad campaigns to compete with Waymo in SF
The Amazon-owned driverless car company is a distant second to Waymo. Its pitch to riders? Wine pop-ups, festival sponsorships and a car built to be filmed.Forums:r/SelfDrivingCarsForums:r/SelfDrivi...
Sources: Alibaba is set to lead a $300M round in AI model testing startup UniPat AI at a $2.5B valuation; UniPat founder Li Kuan worked at Alibaba's Tongyi Lab
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is slated to lead a $300 million investment in AI training and benchmarking startup UniPat AI …
Mach Industries, which makes unmanned military vehicles and weapons, raised $600M in an extension to its $300M Series C, doubling its valuation to $3.7B
Defense tech startup Mach Industries has raised a fresh $600 million in capital in a Series C extension round that has doubled its valuation …
Apple says iOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, all with Siri AI, will be released on September 14
Sources: Grab is in talks to buy a majority stake in Advance Intelligence Group's Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome Financial at a $2B+ valuation
Grab Holdings Ltd., the biggest ride-hailing and food-delivery firm in Southeast Asia, is in talks to buy a majority stake in Singapore-based buy …
Sources: Chinese AI chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, MetaX, and Iluvatar CoreX have raised prices for current and next-gen chips by 20%-50% due to rising HBM costs
Chinese AI chipmakers including Huawei Technologies [RIC:RIC:HWT.UL] and Cambricon (688256.SS) have sharply raised prices …
Sources: Jeffrey Katzenberg, ex-OpenAI Sora head Bill Peebles, and ex-Dropbox CFO Sujay Jaswa plan to launch a startup to train AI video models for filmmakers
Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg is teaming up with the former head of OpenAI's Sora app to launch a new AI startup that would train …
Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550M co-led by Lightspeed and Diffusion at a $15.6B valuation, up from an $11B valuation when it raised $200M in March
Sources: Moonshot AI is exploring dual Hong Kong and Shanghai listings for greater capital and exposure, amid the weaker performance of AI stocks in Hong Kong
Moonshot's exploration of dual listings may stem in part from the weaker performance of AI stocks in Hong Kong, the sources said
French public officials and other sources detail how Mistral's rise over the past three years owes much to the privileged relationship it built with Macron
Mistral has forged unrivaled ties with the French presidency. Now, Emmanuel Macron is departing. — in Paris
Maven Robotics, whose wheeled robots travel up to 10 mph and lift up to 30kg using two arms, emerges from stealth after raising $100M
In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing—"a cartoon of a robot and a team of people," CEO and co-founder Hamza Derbas told TechCrunch.
Sources: Microsoft plans to expand its data center capacity from 12GW today to 38GW+ by 2032, with about a third of the 38GW centered on AI-specific chips
Shortages forced the company to turn away some AI and cloud business. Now it's planning for 38 gigawatts of data center capacity to meet demand.
OpenAI Foundation board member Paul Christiano says the AI industry is currently not on track to reduce the acute loss-of-control risk to an “acceptable” level
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Google plans to invest €13B+ in Finland over two years, its biggest investment in Europe to date, to build three new data centers and expand an existing one
The American Federation of Teachers and Microsoft agree to guarantee privacy standards for classroom AI use, consisting of 10 legally enforceable protections
NYC-based AI sales and marketing startup Clay raised $115M led by Wellington Management at a $7.1B valuation, up from $3.1B when it raised $100M in August 2025
Q&A with AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic, on the need for industry-wide, international coordination to limit recursive self-improvement, and more
Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment …
AI CRM software startup Lightfield raised a $47M Series A led by a16z, after pivoting from AI presentation builder Tome, which had raised $80M in Series A and B
Anthropic says it disrupted several potential plots this year by scientists using its models for research that could have helped develop biological weapons
In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.
Sources: Iran's central bank has quietly relaxed foreign currency controls to encourage traders to repatriate funds via cryptocurrencies to bypass US sanctions
Sources: Salesforce has been in talks to buy Listen Labs, an AI-powered customer research platform for $2B; Listen Labs was valued at $500M earlier this year
TAR, which builds off-grid power systems for data centers, raised a $120M Series A led by Spark Capital at a ~$1B valuation
OpenAI expands its Samsung work to production and research on its next-gen chips, and says Samsung is “one of the largest-scale deployments of ChatGPT globally”
UK PM Andy Burnham says he “won't go as far as” a data center moratorium because it is “important” local communities see the benefits of building data centers
The AI boom is fueling a resurgence in VC bets in “moonshot” sectors such as BCI; Dealroom says non-AI deeptech funding has topped $150B since the start of 2024
Anthropic details distillation efforts by Chinese companies, like Moonshot and DeepSeek, sending user queries to Claude via “transfer stations” outside China
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A look at why the oft-discussed predictions that AI will deliver double-digit GDP growth in advanced economies are extremely unlikely over the next 10-15 years
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