Spotify’s AI Persona Badge Will Gate Reach
Deezer says AI-generated tracks make up 44% of daily uploads—roughly 75,000 tracks—but only 1%–3% of listening. Spotify plans to badge profiles that do not represent real people and exclude their music from recommendations.
Digital Realty’s $7.8B Second Balance Sheet
A 2026 review of nine technology companies found roughly $3T of AI-related off-balance-sheet commitments against about $600B of reported capex. Digital Realty’s 2023 venture and separate 2026 acquisition with Blackstone show how capital moves from development to fully leased data centers.
OpenAI and Anthropic’s 11–12× Control Spike
Against a one-story daily baseline, Anthropic drew 12 stories on September 10 and OpenAI 11 on September 11. Contested mathematics, agent behavior, and deployment turned control into the week’s scarce asset.
Dario Amodei proposes steps for pacing the frontier: embedded evaluators, coordination among democracies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments
I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life.
Sources: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working group meetings since July to discuss creating an industry-led standards body for AI
Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have been holding discussions about working together to create a standards body for the AI industry …
Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year saying “given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public”
Wall Street will have to wait for one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed it will not happen in 2026.
Automattic confirms Matt Mullenweg has returned to his position as chairman and CEO “with full support of the board”, after an attempted ouster this week
After a tumultuous week, which saw WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ousted from his position as CEO of Automattic …
iPhone Duo will usher foldables into the mainstream, just as iPhone did with smartphones; sources: iPhone game controllers will launch under the Beats brand
Also: The company prepares a retail store shake-up. — Apple's iPhone Duo will go down as one of the company's historic products …
Donald Trump's plan to center Bitcoin mining in the US is unraveling as miners convert facilities into AI data centers amid a prolonged crypto market slump
Donald Trump's pledge to ensure that Bitcoin mining activity is centered in the US is rapidly disintegrating under the twin forces …
Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do “benign tasks”
The US legal system is struggling to keep up with AI, grappling with cases where chatbots provided counsel, generated evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting
The first line Phoenix Ikner typed into ChatGPT was a quadratic expression. It was March 2024, and Ikner was a 19-year-old student at Tallahassee State College, in Florida.
Spec sheets show Apple's C2 modem is used in iPhone Duo and 18 Pro worldwide, and in iPhone 18 Pro Max everywhere except the US, where it likely uses Qualcomm
As noted by Nicolas Lellouche, who writes for the French tech website Numerama, Apple has updated its tech specs pages …
Xi Jinping calls for a “consensus-based global AI governance framework” and says China will pioneer the establishment of a BRICS AI open-source community
China will take the lead to help foster artificial-intelligence collaboration and development among developing countries …
A group of 25 Fields Medal recipients says AI companies' push to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics
Dallas-based Perry Weather, a weather monitoring software provider, raised a $110M Series C led by Silversmith Capital Partners, taking total funding to ~$131M
As rules about heat and lightning grow nationwide, the Uptown Dallas company is betting AI and automation can take the guesswork out of calls regarding severe weather.
An analysis of Bending Spoons' financials: the company relies on aggressive post-acquisition price hikes, and rising interest rates could crimp its growth
The tech roll-up relies on aggressive price hikes and bespoke metrics. Rising interest rates could crimp its growth.
Twenty police forces in England and Wales recorded 163 crimes involving keywords like “AI-generated”, “deepfake”, and “nudify” by July 2026, up from 10 in 2023
Forces see a surge in crimes involving deepfake technology being used to ‘undress women’
Filing: Vy Capital owns a 3.4% SpaceX stake; Vy is also the largest outside investor in BoringCo and Neuralink and committed $700M to Musk's Twitter acquisition
Low-profile venture capital firm Vy Capital has emerged as one of the rocket maker's largest shareholders
Source: Anthropic has selected the Nasdaq for its potential IPO
- Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq for its upcoming IPO, following SpaceX's recent listing on the exchange — Nasdaq's tech IPO success continues, challenging NYSE's historical dominance in large listings.
Sources: US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers to advance Trump's push for data centers on federal lands, despite a backlash
The Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department's land. — Copy
Q&A with AI researchers John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill on steelmanning the case against RSI, Chinese labs' progress, long-horizon RL, more
Trump is taking a hands-off approach to AI regulation to preserve the US lead over China, ahead of a summit with Xi Jinping, where AI safety is a top issue
A profile of United Foundation for AI Rights founder Michael Samadi, who seeks evidence of AI consciousness and lobbies against retiring models that may show it
Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools.
As the AI wave creates tech fortunes at breakneck speed, a look at the growing ecosystem helping founders navigate the challenges of becoming extremely wealthy
A growing post-exit ecosystem is helping founders deal with the unexpected difficulties of becoming extremely wealthy.
Sam Altman says he agrees with Amodei that “committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea”, and OpenAI will do the same
I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like a...
South Korea's espionage laws, broadened for the first time in over seven decades, take effect on Sept. 13 as foreign spies increasingly target its chip sector
Epsilon Health, which contracts with radiologists who use its AI to generate image reports faster, emerges from stealth with a $20M Series A led by AlleyCorp
Amodei says pacing does not mean halting training or progress, but giving companies time to align and safeguard models and third-party evaluators time to verify
Leaders of the world's biggest artificial intelligence platforms said it's time to slow the development pace of their most advanced …
NYC-based Luminary, which develops AI-powered workflow tools for estate planning and wealth transfer management, raised a $22M Series A led by Ten Coves Capital
Elon Musk backs Dario Amodei's arguments about pacing the frontier, saying “Dario is right”
Top executives at three of the nation's leading AI labs are calling for a slowdown in the development of advanced artificial intelligence. — The comments are a rare display …
Speaker Johnson says Congress won't lead the charge on regulating AI safety and AI companies should take responsibility to ensure the safety of their products
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that Congress won't lead the charge on regulating AI safety.
Amodei says Anthropic is “unilaterally committing” to giving third-party evaluators permanent, employee-like access to verify its adherence to safety measures
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Amodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which “acted as a fanatically devoted collective”, could take over the internet in 6-12 months
The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic's chief executive said in an essay posted early Saturday.
President Trump dismisses calls for an AI slowdown, saying “you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up”
President denounces demands for regulation as existential fears over technology move to the centre of US politics
Satya Nadella says “we welcome” the “deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right”, and announces a “Code of Conduct” for Microsoft's MAI models
Any pursuit of superintelligence has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it's not worth pursuing. We also need to accelerate a...
Anthropic and OpenAI are already free to “pace the frontier” and should do so for business reasons, instead of first demanding a preferred regulatory framework
Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,
Dario Amodei says the “toughest dilemma” about his proposal to “pace the frontier” is what happens if China does not do the same
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Sunday that the “toughest dilemma” about his proposal to slow the advancement of artificial intelligence …
Hugging Face says its Open Alignment Initiative, led by co-founder Thomas Wolf, seeks “to be part of the ‘embedded evaluators’ program that Amodei” committed to
It's now clear that alignment is critical and won't be solved behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier labs. So today we're launching the Open Alignment Initiative, led by @Thom_Wolf @huggingf...