Triarom Computers https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html In an essay, Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic’s training of Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control (Ina Fried/Axios) The iPhone Duo's squat, tablet-like outer display is a compromise, and a book-shaped foldable may lack wide appeal; its right-side UI bias is akin to a book (John Gruber/Daring Fireball) Amazon launches Alexa+ in India with Hindi support Sources: Anthropic has signed its first Australian data center lease for a planned 2.16GW campus located ~150 miles from Brisbane, set to come online in 2027 (Byron Kaye/Reuters) A viral social media post from a Chinese math teacher sparks debate over making English optional in schools across China especially as AI translation improves (New York Times) Google researchers help develop the first complete digital map of an adult male fruit fly’s brain, which modders programmed to play Doom, trade BTC, and more (Becky Ferreira/404 Media) Cybersecurity experts claim that AI leaders’ apocalyptic hacking predictions are technically incoherent and reflect an unfamiliarity with the subject (Kevin Collier/NBC News) Democrats and Republicans proposed many bills to address major AI threats over the past two years, but they remain stymied by partisan disputes and lobbying (New York Times) Pulley, which offers cap table management software, says it will cease operations after December 8; it had raised $50M+ from investors, including Founders Fund (Melia Robinson/Business Insider) UMG sues DistroKid, alleging it distributes AI-generated music masquerading as artist-backed releases and knowingly "proliferates" copyright-infringing tracks (Tim Ingham/Music Business Worldwide) New York State Assemblyman Alex Bores launches Who Decides, a nonprofit that raised $10M and aims to raise another $20M in 2027 to shape Democratic AI policy (New York Times) Jensen Huang took a surprise call from President Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in LA, where the two dismissed fears of an AI takeover (New York Times) Jensen Huang took a call from Trump, and showed off something else, too top models are becoming so situationally aware humans “are losing the ability to evaluate them” while humans rely more on AI to lead research (Daniel Kokotajlo/@dkokotajlo) A look at iLands, a company that’s like Fiverr for agents, which email annoying and unsolicited pitches to people, usually for services costing ~$25 (Ernie Smith/Tedium) Vera Rubin NVL72 inference tests show up to 7x better token throughput per MW vs. Blackwell on a 1.6T DeepSeek model, above Huang's 3x claim for 1T-3T LLMs (Bryan Shan/SemiAnalysis) Sources: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working group meetings since July to discuss creating an industry-led standards body for AI (Leo Schwartz/The Information) 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" (Myles McCormick/Financial Times) Home Page 2 Cornelis, spun off from Intel in 2020 to build networking tech that helps AI chips communicate more effectively, raised $205M led by IAG Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch) Nuance Labs, which builds low-latency AI avatars that can have face-to-face conversations, raised a $50M Series A led by Lightspeed, with Nvidia participating (Shubhangi Goel/Business Insider) Internal OpenAI docs detail contractors evaluating anonymized prompts and chats to improve the models; model training is turned on by default for consumer plans (Joseph Cox/404 Media) Paris-based digital asset data provider Kaiko extends a funding round to $110M led by S&P Global to support 24/7 continuous market data and asset tokenization (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg) Document: Samsung and SK Hynix rejected KEPCO's proposal to prepay ~$18.7B of chip cluster power bills, citing uncertainty over long-term chip demand (Reuters) Current and former officials: the US NSA plans major restructuring to form five new units for AI, China, cybersecurity, warfighting, and global intelligence (Washington Post) Anthropic told investors it will be profitable for a second straight quarter, with 80%+ gross margins before partner revenue sharing and training costs (Financial Times) 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 (Joanna Ossinger/CNBC) 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 (David Sacks/@davidsacks) 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 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times) 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 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) Dallas-based Perry Weather, a weather monitoring software provider, raised a $110M Series C led by Silversmith Capital Partners, taking total funding to ~$131M (John Egan/Dallas Innovates) Nvidia announces the RTX Pro 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition, offering comparable specs to the RTX 5090 but with 84GB of GDDR7 memory, vs. RTX 5090’s 32GB (Zhiye Liu/Tom’s Hardware) 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 Washington Sun) 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 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) 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 (Michael Safi/The Guardian) 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 (Mark Tovey/Telegraph) the company relies on aggressive post-acquisition price hikes, and rising interest rates could crimp its growth (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal) Trump slams Dario Amodei, saying “the only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the USA has that, in spades!” (Ryan Chua/Bloomberg) 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” (Jason Ma/Fortune) Elon Musk backs Dario Amodei’s arguments about pacing the frontier, saying “Dario is right” (Ben Johansen/Politico) 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 (Evan Ratliff/Bloomberg) Dario Amodei says Anthropic is "unilaterally committing" to giving third-party evaluators permanent access to verify its adherence to safety measures (Dario Amodei/@darioamodei) 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 (Davis Janowski/Wealth Management) How hyperscalers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are siding with consumers on data center power costs and sweetening offers for communities to gain support (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information) 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 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios) 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 (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast) The US Senate digital assets subcommittee releases a revised “final offer” of the Clarity Act with Trump-backed ethics provisions, ahead of a September 15 vote (Felix Ng/Cointelegraph News) Amazon adds a Shop tab to Prime Video's X-Ray feature for related products while watching shows, and Shop the Scene powered by Amazon Lens in the Shopping app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Anthropic is in talks to bring on Nvidia as an anchor investor in its IPO, seeking up to $100B at a ~$2T valuation; Nvidia may invest up to $10B (Reuters) Blog Right Sidebar