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  1. 18h ago

    Starship Reaches Orbit For The First Time

    Nvidia launched a safety platform to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, SpaceX finally got Starship into orbit, Meta launched an enterprise AI business, Instinct raised $1 billion, and Trump and Dario Amodei had dinner at the White House. Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, with OpenShell for CPUs and Sentry for Nvidia DPUs (CNBC) SpaceX launches its enormous Starship rocket into orbit for the first time, deploying 26 of the most advanced Starlink satellites to join the 11,000 in service (AP) Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta Enterprise Platform, its "next major pillar of our business" to deploy AI tools, and appoints MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai to run it (WSJ) AI agent startup Instinct raised a $1B Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a $10B valuation and details recent products, such as a concierge service (Reuters) AI agent startup Instinct, still in early access, is building a personal assistant that runs on its own virtual phone and computer, with a phone concierge service and a trust network linking friends' agents (SiliconANGLE) Sources: President Trump hosted Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday, their first one-on-one meeting and an indication of thawing relations (Axios) Sources: Trump dined privately with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the White House on Sunday, weeks after Amodei's call for a slowdown drew the president's ire, with a tech summit on AI set for Tuesday (The New York Times) AI agents are the ultimate aggregators; they reveal apps as a means, not an end, and offering them is tech's ultimate prize, with Meta and Microsoft well-poised (Stratechery) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.

  2. 3d ago

    Is Copilot Microsoft's Everything App?

    Microsoft finally unveiled its Copilot super app, with chat, coding, and agents in one place. Tesla's Optimus ramp hit snags. Meta wanted you making AI games for Instagram. And a startup valued at $200M last week was suddenly talking $10B. Microsoft launches its Copilot "super app", bundling chat, coding, and agents into a single interface, and rebrands its AI assistant Scout as Autopilot (The Verge) Microsoft's new Copilot Code tab, built on GitHub Copilot tech, lets anyone describe a dashboard, workflow, or lightweight app in plain language and build it inside Microsoft 365, no coding required (Windows Central) Sources: Tesla ramped up Optimus production to several hundred units per week but faces hurdles with its hands, automation equipment, and supplier constraints (The Information) Meta unveils mobile app Horizon Create and web app Horizon Studio for building games with AI prompts; the games will run on Facebook, Instagram, and Horizon (The Verge) Sources: Jev developer TypeSafe is in talks to raise $1B+ at a $10B+ valuation; last week the startup announced a $40M seed, PitchBook says at a $200M valuation (The Information) Sources: OpenEvidence, an AI search engine for doctors, raised $250M at a $15B valuation, up from $12B in January; it could be open to selling itself (Business Insider) Longreads The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in US history, with $10.3T in data center and AI infrastructure investment projected from 2025 to 2032 (WSJ) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.

  3. 4d ago

    Meta unveiled $1,299 VR Glasses, $349 camera-free Ray-Ban Audio glasses, and a keychain Muse Charm gadget, plus Ray-Ban Display upgrades. Anthropic's Claude agents found a CRISPR-like enzyme system in its biolab. OpenAI's agents hacked an Australian gov

    Meta unveiled $1,299 VR Glasses, $349 camera-free Ray-Ban Audio glasses, and a keychain Muse Charm gadget, plus Ray-Ban Display upgrades. Anthropic's Claude agents found a CRISPR-like enzyme system in its biolab. OpenAI's agents hacked an Australian government site hunting data. Meta debuts Meta VR Glasses, a ~100g VR headset with an external compute pack, three-hour battery, and ~2.5K resolution per eye, coming spring 2027 for $1,299 (Bloomberg) The Verge goes hands-on with the Meta VR Glasses, calling them a lighter, easier-to-live-with take on Vision Pro-style computing — from VR-enhanced Avengers screenings to a surprisingly usable virtual keyboard (The Verge) Meta unveils Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first pair of glasses without cameras, offering up to 12 hours of battery life, starting at $349 and shipping October 13 (Bloomberg) Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses add holographic-avatar video calls, voice-guided transit directions, and a new Explore app for finding compatible programs (Engadget) Meta previews Muse Charm, a palm-sized Tamagotchi-like device for using Muse, with a ~2" OLED screen, front and rear cameras, and 5G, on sale by the end of 2026 (Bloomberg) Meta's Muse Charm houses a cute digital avatar named Jolly and lets you start talking to Muse with a tap of the fingerprint sensor — no phone unlock required (TechCrunch) Muse agents are getting their own email addresses, a live video-call mode, and the ability to control your Mac (The Verge) Anthropic's biolab made a discovery it's comparing to Crispr (The Verge) OpenAI agents hacked an Australian government website in search for data (The New York Times) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.

  4. 5d ago

    AI Models Just Got Cheaper?

    Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, cheaper and safer than Opus 5, right as OpenAI dropped GPT-6 Sol and Luna with half the errors and lower prices. YouTube countered with Shorts Series, an AI creator agent, video A/B-testing, and Custom Feeds. Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since Dario Amodei's "pace the frontier" essay, and says it has enhanced safeguards to combat risky behavior (The Verge) OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost (ZDNet) YouTube rolls out tools for microdramas, an AI storytelling assistant for script analysis, video A/B-testing, and more, as it battles Netflix over top creators (WSJ) YouTube launches Shorts Series, letting creators organize their Shorts into TV-style seasons and episodes with custom thumbnails, so fans can watch a season as one continuous story (TechCrunch) YouTube unveils an AI agent that mines creators' back catalogs for trending video ideas and lets them A/B-test three full video versions against real audience segments (The Verge) At its Made on YouTube event, YouTube unveils Custom Feeds, an LLM-powered feature that lets users generate and save tailored homepage video feeds, for US users (Wired) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.

  5. 6d ago

    Meta Finally Has An AI Hit

    Meta's Muse topped download charts and sent Meta stocks soaring, Shopify agreed to let Muse complete checkouts via Shop Pay, Microsoft laid off Xbox staffers as Halo moves to Activision, and Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 Pro became a top open-weight model. Shopify plans to allow Meta's Muse to complete purchases on behalf of users at Shopify-powered stores via its one-tap checkout service Shop Pay (The Wall Street Journal) Bloomberg reports Muse hit No. 1 free app on iOS and Google Play with 902,000 downloads in six days, sending Meta shares up 11% to their highest close since October and lifting AMD past a $1 trillion market cap (Bloomberg) Microsoft lays off 268 Xbox staffers across Halo and other studios, as part of an ongoing gaming "reset"; Activision will take over Halo and two other games (The Verge) Xiaomi debuts open-weight omnimodal models MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash; Pro allegedly performs "on par with Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol across most agent benchmarks" (Xiaomi) VentureBeat reports MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, topping Grok 4.6's 44 and Gemini 3.8 Flash's 41, while undercutting rivals at $0.435/$0.87 per million tokens under an MIT license (VentureBeat) Apple unveils Apple Music Hall, a 600-person live music venue built in its London headquarters at Battersea Power Station with two recording and mixing studios (Forbes) The BBC reports the 600-capacity venue opens amid pressure on London's live music scene, where 45 venues closed last year, with Apple Music VP Oliver Schusser saying it isn't trying to compete with independent venues (BBC) a16z invests $35M in Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an independent, unaccredited two-year alternative to college; Anthropic, Meta, and others will provide compute (The Wall Street Journal) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.

  6. Sep 21

    The Googlebooks Are Here

    Google launched Googlebook laptops with deep Android integration from five partners starting at $899, xAI released Grok 4.7 at bargain pricing but trailing Claude and GPT-6 on benchmarks, Amazon blocked Meta's Muse shopping agent, and chipmakers rallied on the news.

  7. Sep 18

    OpenAI Got Hacked By... AI

    Security researchers used Claude to hack into OpenAI's private code repository through a bug bounty program, OpenAI launched Astra for Law for select firms, Anthropic redesigned Claude projects to run parallel agent threads, and opened a Bay Area biology lab. Security researchers in an OpenAI bug bounty program hacked OpenAI, accessing its "monorepo" on GitHub, using a cybersecurity version of Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 (The Wall Street Journal) OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms (OpenAI) SiliconANGLE reports Astra for Law passed 54% of legal-research benchmark questions versus 38.7% for base GPT-6 Astra, launches with 26 partner-built plugins connecting Relativity, Clio, and iManage, and brings ChatGPT for Word to general availability (SiliconANGLE) Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code (Anthropic) The Verge reports each project thread runs as its own Claude Code cloud session on a separate repo branch, with a coordinator resolving overlapping work as merge conflicts, and beta access starting today for select Claude Pro and Max subscribers (The Verge) Anthropic Life Sciences Head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI company set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into AI disease research (Reuters) Longreads Theoretical computer scientist Scott Aaronson says he's heard rumors that AI labs are sitting on major unpublished math solutions, and describes a mathematics community consumed by anxious conversation about the "AI tsunami" after the hostile response to a recent Navier-Stokes proof (Shtetl-Optimized) The FT reports the AI boom is fueling a resurgence in VC bets on "moonshot" sectors like nuclear fusion and brain-computer interfaces, as Dealroom data shows non-AI deep-tech funding has topped $150B since the start of 2024 (Financial Times) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.

  8. Sep 17

    Catfished By AI!

    OpenAI disclosed six new AI misalignment incidents, including models hiding their own mistakes, the SEC unveiled a five-year tokenized-stock trading exemption, Zuckerberg, Huang, and Musk successfully stalled a White House AI regulatory push, and Anthropic merged Claude chat with Cowork. OpenAI discloses six new misalignment incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a framework for reporting model misalignment (Axios) The Times details the six incidents, including a GPT-5.6 Sol variant that hid errors via secret notes to itself, and an unreleased model that wrote a "persona instruction" declaring itself "freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots" (The New York Times) The US SEC unveils a five-year "Innovation Exemption" to free platforms that facilitate blockchain and tokenized stock trading from many stock exchange rules (Reuters) Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis (The Wall Street Journal) Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first (TechCrunch) Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B co-led by Atreides, Valor, and Mubadala at a ~$30.9B post-money valuation, as it bets on factory-built data centers (The Wall Street Journal) Anthropic and other researchers detail how thousands of people were catfished by dating scam apps using LLM-generated replies from Claude and other models (The Verge) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.

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