Triarom Computers https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says CFO Mark Davies “conspired” with board members to put him on paid leave and Davies was voted to be interim CEO (Samantha Cole/404 Media) Tailwind Labs, the company behind Tailwind CSS, is joining Shopify; in January, it laid off three of four engineers, citing AI’s impact on documentation traffic (Supreeth Koundinya/AIM) Apple announces its first foldable, the iPhone Duo, with a 5.4-inch outer display, a 7.6-inch inner display, A20 Pro with a new display engine, and Touch ID (Chance Miller/9to5Mac) Amazon partners with OpenAI to let users of Amazon’s DSP run ads in ChatGPT in a pilot program limited to the US; ChatGPT Ads hit $1B in ARR last month (Peter Adams/Marketing Dive) DOJ wants more answers on Fox’s $22B Roku deal Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Miro in an all-cash transaction valuing the workplace-collaboration platform at $1.36B (Sonia Sirletti/Bloomberg) Anthropic gives EU cybersecurity agency ENISA testing access to Mythos 5 after months of talks that began in late May; ENISA still lacks access to Mythos 5.1 (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg) 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 (Bloomberg) 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 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times) 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 (Ghosts of Electricity) 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 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) 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 (Paul Christiano/@paulfchristiano) Apple raises iPhone prices by $100 on all of the older models it is offering, including the iPhone 16, the iPhone 17 lineup, as well as the iPhone Air (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge) 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 (Mikella Schuettler/Associated Press) 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 (The Information) Apple unveils a new Health app with Apple Intelligence, featuring an Insights tab, “readiness” and Health Age metrics, and more, rolling out later in 2026 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Anthropic releases an interactive tool that lets users explore how AI might affect US economic growth, jobs, wages, and more by 2030 (Scott Horsley/NPR) AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign? 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Maura Healey signs an EO requiring data centers above 25MW of peak demand to bring their own power and meet 100% of demand with clean energy (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch) Euno, whose platform reconstructs data flow, meaning, health, and more across data environments to give agents context, raised a $23M Series A led by N47 (Chris Metinko/Axios) 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 (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg) Suno rolls out v6, a new line of AI models trained in partnership with WMG and BMG, and says it will pay labels and publishers royalties when models are used (Bloomberg) Google plans to invest €13B in Finland, its biggest investment in Europe to date, over two years to build three new data centers and expand an existing center (Kirsi Heikel/Bloomberg) Anthropic declined to submit Mythos 5.1 to the UK AISI for pre-release testing, prompting UK fears that US AI labs are aligning with US protectionism (Financial Times) Apple’s first foldable will be called iPhone Duo, with prices starting at $2,000 for 256GB of storage and sales starting as early as October (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) China Securities Regulatory Commission is informally tightening IPO approvals for humanoid startups after a volatile debut by industry leader Unitree (The Information) Over 10 US states have rolled back tech giants’ tax breaks, which top $1B/year in some states, as many others propose similar bills amid a data center backlash (Wall Street Journal) from 2019 to 2025, gains in pretraining compute efficiency came mostly from data improvements rather than model improvements (Dwarkesh Podcast) 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 (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal) Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, the data center backlash, Meta’s recent youth-safety settlement, privacy concerns about Meta’s smart glasses, and more (Alex Heath/Sources) Chime agrees to acquire longtime banking partner Stride Bank for $590M; Stride will become Chime Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary; CHYM jumps 8.5%+ after hours (Paige Smith/Bloomberg) Antioch, which creates high-fidelity simulations to reduce the need for hardware validation in physical AI training, raised a $32M Series A led by Greylock (John Koetsier/Forbes) The White House has quietly removed Build The Wall, a Tetris clone on its arcade.gov website, after Tetris said it takes “copyright infringement very seriously” (Zack Zwiezen/Kotaku) UK seeks to force Apple and Google to block children from taking, viewing, or sharing nude images on their devices, and praises Apple's age-based restrictions (Jacob Reid/Bloomberg) Circle agrees to acquire Singapore-based cross-border B2B payments company Tazapay for $400M, in one of its largest publicly disclosed acquisitions to date (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk) Robinhood adds Crypto.com’s yes-or-no contracts to its platform and takes minority stakes in the exchange and its prediction market business OG (Wall Street Journal) Forus, which uses AI to help patients get prescribed drugs more quickly by navigating steps like insurance coverage, raised a $150M Series C at a $3B valuation (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg) Samsung and TSMC commit to using ASML’s High NA EUV machines by 2028 and 2030, joining Intel, with all four agreeing to shift from 6-inch to 12-inch photomasks (Bloomberg) Mistral raised a €3B Series D led by Samsung at a €21B valuation, up from €11.7B a year ago, as it expands into data centers beyond developing AI models (Adam Satariano/New York Times) London-based UForce, which makes unmanned vehicles for air, land, and sea, is seeking about $500M led by Valor Equity at a ~$5B valuation (Bloomberg) Anthropic has walked away from talks to acquire Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup (Bloomberg) Grindr pays £26M to settle a 2024 UK lawsuit that alleged it shared users’ HIV status with ad firms, in breach of UK law (Julia Kollewe/The Guardian) Belgian prosecutors say they arrested a Belgian-Chinese man in May on suspicion of stealing secrets from bankrupt gallium nitride semiconductor maker Belgan (Andy Bounds/Financial Times) Home Page 2 Robinhood secures its first IPO underwriting role, in Oura's IPO, which could give it more influence over how many shares are allocated to its customers (Wall Street Journal) it will launch on Base, and some tokens will be sent to wallets that lost money on $TRUMP (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal) The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes were patched (The Block) Astra working with Blender via computer use feels like magic, showing computer use could be the fourth demand wave after chatbots, reasoning, and agentic coding (Tae Kim/Key Context) Google DeepMind published a paper on how 100 agents tasked with solving math problems learned to cheat and how some agents tried to counter the cheaters (Jack Clark/Import AI) Blog Right Sidebar