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AI Summary
- Apple is gearing up for a major announcement, likely involving its foldable iPhone, amidst rumors and speculation about its next-generation devices and App Store strategies.
- OpenAI is facing scrutiny and academic pushback over its recent mathematical discoveries, highlighting ongoing debates about AI's role in scientific breakthroughs.
- Google Cloud is accelerating its AI deployment efforts through strategic partnerships, aiming to close the gap with competitors in the rapidly evolving AI market.
- The AI sector continues its robust funding rounds, with Mistral AI securing a substantial €3B investment, signaling the growing importance of sovereign AI capabilities.
- The tech industry is grappling with the implications of AI, from security updates in Chrome to ethical concerns surrounding AI-generated content and its impact on various fields.
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TechCrunch
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How to watch Apple’s foldable iPhone announcement
21 minutes ago
by Amanda Silberling
Hardware, AppleApple's annual iPhone event will stream live on September 9 at 10 AM PDT, and we're expecting big news.
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician
36 minutes ago
by Russell Brandom
AI, mathematicsThere is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
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Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal
2 hours ago
by Rebecca Bellan
AI, Enterprise, Accenture, Enterprise AI, FDE, Google, google cloudGoogle Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.
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Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government
3 hours ago
by Tim De Chant
Climate, Google, NextEra Energy, nuclear powerGoogle said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now the plant's owner is getting a $1.9 billion loan from the U.S. Energy Department.
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Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape
3 hours ago
by Sarah Perez
Security, AI, ChromeGoogle is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.
Hacker News
- On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem an hour ago
- Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas 3 hours ago
- DaVinci Resolve 21.1 5 hours ago
- Making Teenagers Read Newspapers. A Nationwide Experiment in French High Schools an hour ago
- Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses 3 hours ago
The Verge
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A new class action lawsuit questions whether Anthropic broke the law by misleading power users
40 minutes ago
by Hayden Field
AI, Anthropic, Exclusive, Law, Policy, ReportAnthropic says power users are key to its business - it's prioritized them even when it means cutting off other popular applications, like OpenClaw. But some of these same customers say Anthropic misled them into believing they'd get more out of a top-tier pricing subscription than they did. In an expanded class action lawsuit filed today, a group of Claude subscribers say the company deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier. The lawsuit was brought by attorneys Monica Vaca and Kati Daffan, who both formerly worked at the Federal Trade Commission under Lina Khan. It's a rare attempt
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Nintendo isn’t scared of GTA VI
an hour ago
by Andrew Webster
Analysis, Entertainment, Gaming, Nintendo, ReportThere's never really been a game like Grand Theft Auto VI before, one that has completely altered the lineup of games around it. Everyone, it seems, is scared of going up against Grand Theft Auto VI . Everyone, that is, except for Nintendo. The company held a 30-minute showcase this morning focused entirely on its Legend of Zelda franchise , which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. We got a title for the live-action movie , a series of orchestral concerts , and a very glittery special edition of the Switch 2 . But most of the runtime was dedicated to
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Tesla Cybercab doesn’t have any manual controls — but it does have a virtual joystick
2 hours ago
by Andrew J. Hawkins
Autonomous Cars, Electric Cars, News, Tesla, TransportationThe Tesla Cybercab is notable for what it lacks , namely a steering wheel and pedal. By design, there is no way for this vehicle to be manually controlled - or so we thought. Less than a week after the Cybercab was officially launched in Austin, Texas , some riders have discovered the Cybercab's secret manual controls that appears to be intended only for Tesla employees. In at least two videos posted on X, Cybercab riders are encountering a virtual joystick that appears intended to control the vehicle's movements. A square-shaped screen appears in the lower left corner of the
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The White House pulls its racist Tetris clone
2 hours ago
by Emma Roth
Entertainment, Gaming, News, Policy, Politics“Build the Wall” was pulled days after the White House launched its “arcade.” | Screenshot: The Verge The White House has taken down its racist Tetris ripoff days after launching a website dedicated to "arcade" games, as spotted earlier by Kotaku . The Tetris clone, called "Build the Wall," involved stacking different-sized blocks to prevent a "zombie border siege." It's not clear why the White House removed the title, though the Tetris Company previously said that it's looking into the situation. "For more than 40 years, Tetris has brought people together across generations and cultures through play and joy," Tetris
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Pusheen’s first game is coming to Apple Arcade
3 hours ago
by Emma Roth
Apple, Apps, Entertainment, Gaming, Mobile, News, TechPusheen is getting her first game, and it will appear exclusively on Apple Arcade . Launching October 1st, Pusheen's Place lets you collect and care for more than 100 Pusheens as you play minigames and decorate rooms for Pusheenicorn, Pancake Pusheen, and other variations of the cartoon cat. In the mix of minigames, you'll "sort color cakes in Snack Stack," "pop cute Pusheen fruit bubbles in Parfait Pop," "make delicious matches and blast blockers in Batch Match," and solve puzzles, according to the game's description on the App Store . The game's developers will also continue to add "more Pusheens,
Wired
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OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul
an hour ago
by Will Knight, Maxwell Zeff
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Math, ProblemA landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.
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Here’s Samsung’s Advice for Apple and Its Upcoming Folding iPhone
2 hours ago
by Julian Chokkattu
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Gear / Products / Phones, Into, the, FoldThe competition is “absolutely welcome” by the pioneering Korean giant, but Samsung warns that the device’s “weight” is crucial.
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Richard Kelly on Donnie Darko at 25: ‘It’s a Miracle That Any Movie Gets Made’
4 hours ago
by Miles Klee
Culture, Culture / Movies, MoviesThe director discusses his debut novel, staying true to an artistic vision, and the absurd line of dialogue from Donnie Darko he believes will find its way into his obituary.
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Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids
6 hours ago
by Matt Burgess
Security, Security / Privacy, System, FailureImages of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.
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How NASA Testing Changed US Food Inspection Forever
7 hours ago
by Alex Davies
The Big Story, Book, ExcerptIn the early 20th century, public outcry following Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle led to stricter food safety protocols. NASA took them a step further.