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Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to sell its AI to businesses
Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to sell its AI to businesses Meta has launched a division to sell its AI tools to businesses, Mark Zuckerberg said on X on Monday. MongoDB chief executive Chirantan “CJ” Desai will run it. “Today we are starting the next majo…
OpenAI agents scanned a UN statistics site 16,500 times, researcher says
OpenAI agents scanned a UN statistics site 16,500 times, researcher says AI agents that a researcher linked to OpenAI scanned a United Nations data website more than 16,500 times between 13 April and 19 June. They used proxies and an encoding trick to get r…
US jury orders Apple to pay Taction $5.7bn over iPhone haptics patents
US jury orders Apple to pay Taction $5.7bn over iPhone haptics patents A federal jury in San Diego has ordered Apple to pay more than $5.7bn to Taction Technology, a small haptics company, for infringing two of its patents. The verdict came on Friday, 25 Se…
UK campaigners who beat AI copyright plan warn Australia
UK campaigners who beat AI copyright plan warn Australia Campaigners who helped stop the UK from letting AI companies train on copyrighted work without permission have warned Australia not to try the same thing. They spoke to Dan Milmo for the Guardian. Aus…
Council backed Devon AI datacentre before it went public, Guardian reports
Council backed Devon AI datacentre before it went public, Guardian reports A council in north Devon backed a huge AI datacentre plan more than a year before the public knew about it. The documents were reported by Sandra Laville for the Guardian. Campaigner…
Europe keeps buying more electric cars, which now take 29% of new registrations
Europe keeps buying more electric cars, which now take 29% of new registrations Battery electric cars took 29% of new car sales in Europe in August, and across the European Union for the first eight months of the year they reached 21.7% of registrations, ex…
Anthropic seeks 50.1% voting control for founders, The Information reports
Anthropic seeks 50.1% voting control for founders, The Information reports Anthropic wants its seven co-founders to keep control of the company after it goes public. The company is asking shareholders to approve a special class of shares for them, The Infor…
Qualcomm launches AI earbud chip, glasses platforms and a health alliance
Qualcomm launches AI earbud chip, glasses platforms and a health alliance Qualcomm wants earbuds and glasses, not phone screens, to be the way people talk to AI agents. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, it launched Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, its first au…
Audi beat the EV range record by 133km, and beat its own WLTP figure by 72%
Audi beat the EV range record by 133km, and beat its own WLTP figure by 72% The reigning European Rally Champion drove an Audi A6 Sportback e-tron 1,338 kilometres across Poland on a single charge, a Guinness World Record, at 7.09 kWh per 100 kilometres. Th…
Sam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down
Sam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down Sam Altman is calling for national and international standards for frontier AI. Speaking at the UN Security Council in New York today, the OpenAI chief executive says no level of catastrophic risk f…
DOJ defends Trump’s White House ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW
DOJ defends Trump’s White House ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW The United States Justice Department has requested that a federal judge dismiss the emergency application submitted by CNN, Politico, and MS NOW to get their reporters readmitted to the White H…
Trump tells the UN that AI is now ‘super intelligence’
Trump tells the UN that AI is now ‘super intelligence’ Donald Trump used his address to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday to give artificial intelligence a new name. From now on, he said, US government documents would call it ‘super intelligenc…
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Insta360 spent $298m on memory chips in six months. GoPro’s shareholders are getting $285m in cash for the entire company. Insta360 opened its first American store on Saturday at 1515 Broadway, in the middle of Times Square. It is the company’s second self-…
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Disney names Character.AI’s chief executive as its first CTO
Disney names Character.AI’s chief executive as its first CTO Disney has named Karandeep Anand, until now the chief executive of Character.AI, to the newly created role of chief technology officer for the whole company. Disney sent Character.AI a cease-and-d…
Canto: A speech model built for the real world
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Barndoor acquires Diaphora, creators of open-source workflow runtime Frags
Barndoor acquires Diaphora, creators of open-source workflow runtime Frags Comments
Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages
WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages Comments
Oracle's Cold 6AM Layoff Emails Hit Staff Amid New Wave of Cuts
Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server (2003)
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US diplomat secretly flown home ‘had child abuse images at flat’
Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard
Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard Comments
Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same
Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same Sam Altman says OpenAI will match Anthropic’s commitment to give independent evaluators employee-like access, a day after Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow down and as…
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Amazon Quick is now available on desktop, with a new mobile activity feed
Amazon Quick is now available on desktop, with a new mobile activity feed Amazon has made its Quick desktop assistant generally available on macOS and Windows, pitching it to enterprise IT as the governed alternative to shadow AI. Quick runs in ordinary Eur…
Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
Procedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents
OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem
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OpenAI confirms the wiki incident and promises a disclosure framework within weeks
OpenAI confirms the wiki incident and promises a disclosure framework within weeks OpenAI has confirmed the German wiki incident and said it is past time to define standards for reporting misalignment, promising a framework within weeks. The EU code of prac…
Astra appears to think without showing its work, and the people arguing about it co-wrote the warning AI safety researchers say OpenAI’s Astra appears to do less of its reasoning in visible text, and OpenAI’s chief scientist has warned against a race into u…
AI cloud firm Nscale seeking $3.5B in pre-IPO financing from Nvidia and Third Point
AI cloud firm Nscale seeking $3.5B in pre-IPO financing from Nvidia and Third Point Nscale is in talks to raise up to $3.5B ahead of a US listing, including $1.5B of convertible notes led by Third Point and about $2B from Nvidia. It is briefing investors th…
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Top Rippling alternatives for mid-market companies
Top Rippling alternatives for mid-market companies Rippling sells one bundle for HR, IT, and finance, and the pitch lands well until an HR team reads the invoice. The base platform carries a low sticker price, then payroll, benefits, device management, and …
Using Cloudflare Workers and reCAPTCHA v3 for a Static Site Contact Form
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