King Charles III hosts tech leaders, including Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for AI safety tests (Bloomberg)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:05:04 -0400 · Techmeme

Lucid and Bolt sign an initial agreement to deploy a fleet of 25K+ robotaxis in Europe built on Lucid's affordable EV platform, set to launch as soon as 2028 (Financial Times)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:55:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Comp AI, which uses AI agents to draft security policies, collect audit evidence, conduct continuous compliance monitoring, and more, raised a $34M Series A (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:45:02 -0400 · Techmeme

The US SEC unveils a five-year "Innovation Exemption" to free platforms that facilitate blockchain and tokenized stock trading from many stock exchange rules (Hannah Lang/Reuters)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:36:13 -0400 · Techmeme

A former US State Department envoy says the US-China AI safety talks will not yield a breakthrough treaty as Beijing is prioritizing its strategic advantage (New York Times)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:50:04 -0400 · Techmeme

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: new colors and materials, revamped Health Sensing System, an S11 chip, and future AI features, but few design changes (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:15:17 -0400 · Techmeme

DoorDash says Costco members can order same-day delivery from every US Costco warehouse, after Uber expanded its delivery partnership from 17 to 47 US states (Bloomberg)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:54 -0400 · Techmeme

Huawei Chair Eric Xu says Chinese AI researchers need to "increase the speed of development" to "see the dangers" of AI, contrasting with US slowdown calls (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:45:03 -0400 · Techmeme

How Dario Amodei's essays on AI safety and ethics help explain some AI fears; his regulatory stance evolved from wariness in January to embracing safety reviews (David Streitfeld/New York Times)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:35:01 -0400 · Techmeme

The EU details the Kids Act, which would require social networks to use age verification tools to stop under-15s from opening accounts, ban under-13s, and more (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:10:33 -0400 · Techmeme

Survey: in a first, Democrats are more concerned than Republicans about AI's growing role in daily life, at 56% to 49%; 75% of Democrats worry about job losses (Pew Research Center)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:50:01 -0400 · Techmeme

At India's Semicon, Narendra Modi launches a charm offensive for global investors, drawing pledges from Applied Materials and Lam for billions in investment (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:35:11 -0400 · Techmeme

A profile of Jacob Coxon, the British researcher who quit Anthropic after a series of security escalations and says the explosive response surprised him (Wall Street Journal)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:15:20 -0400 · Techmeme

macOS 27 Golden Gate review: addresses many Tahoe-era Liquid Glass issues and has useful new AI features, but no Intel support and uses a lot of storage space (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:05:05 -0400 · Techmeme

How beauty companies like Qoves are commercializing facial-analysis algorithms that evaluate geometric proportions, balding, and more to prescribe treatments (Alice Lassman/Bloomberg)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:55:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Google DeepMind cofounder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and launches the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI (Financial Times)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:55:01 -0400 · Techmeme

OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents, which let users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads, with some US advertisers (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:45:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Amazon says it is raising its minimum hourly pay for eligible full-time US operations workers by $1, taking it to $20 per hour, and gives them new banking tools (Reuters)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:35:01 -0400 · Techmeme

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)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:45:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic staff felt blindsided by Dario Amodei's and Sam Altman's calls to slow the frontier; some fear evaluators may compromise security (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:30:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: Apple is developing enterprise AI servers powered by two or four M8 Ultra chips, set for 2029, and is considering integrating Nvidia's NVLink Fusion (The Information)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:15:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Modular data center startup Rune raised a $40M Series A led by Spark Capital to deploy off-grid compute capacity directly at solar and renewable energy sites (Adele Peters/Fast Company)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:55:01 -0400 · Techmeme

A profile of Meta Compute co-lead Dina Powell McCormick, who is using her network to help structure major AI financing, as Mark Zuckerberg focuses on product (Bloomberg)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:45:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Billionaire-backed AI safety activists have expanded their Capitol Hill lobbying in the past year, with groups like ControlAI conducting hundreds of meetings (Washington Post)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:35:05 -0400 · Techmeme

Hacker collective stegan0gram dismantles a Flock camera, recovering an encryption key and showing it runs ~20 apps on a midrange smartphone-grade processor (404 Media)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:20:01 -0400 · Techmeme

iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max review: manual camera exposure controls and image quality improvements, but $100 more than the 17 Pro and expensive storage tiers (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:10:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Prediction markets are expanding into mainstream media, with integrations in Dow Jones, Substack, CNN, CNBC, and more, as they become an informational channel (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:55:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Apple publishes a technical breakdown of the architecture for the iPhone 18 Pro's Reference Image camera mode; the chain of trust begins during manufacturing (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:45:11 -0400 · Techmeme

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming overtakes India's Gautam Adani to become Asia's richest person for the first time, passing $105B, up 8x from $13B in March 2019 (Bloomberg)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:35:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Internal documents: Chinese hacker-for-hire company ZRON is selling stolen foreign intelligence and using AI systems to make the data more accessible for police (Wall Street Journal)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:20:02 -0400 · Techmeme

OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg Law)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:40:09 -0400 · Techmeme

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which offers audits and safety certifications for AI agents, raised a $40M Series A, bringing total raised to $55M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:30:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Meta says it plans to deploy MTIA 450, its third-generation custom AI chip, in data centers in H1 2027, followed by a broad rollout of MTIA 500 by end of 2027 (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:25:06 -0400 · Techmeme

The US DOJ says several companies used Binance to relay payments of around $1.5B for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers; Binance says it took action (Wall Street Journal)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:20:01 -0400 · Techmeme

At Dreamforce, Salesforce announces Koa, a specialized CRM reasoning model built on Nvidia's Nemotron architecture, designed to power AI agents in Agentforce (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:05:02 -0400 · Techmeme

OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House proposal, that would require AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:55:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Altera, which makes chips for AI, automation, and more, files confidentially for an IPO; Intel acquired it for ~$16.7B in 2015, and Silver Lake took 51% in 2025 (David Morris/Bloomberg)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:35:01 -0400 · Techmeme

The Gates Foundation pledges $1B+ over two years to expand global access to AI and use it to tackle social inequalities; Gates says "we can harness AI for good" (Claire Moses/New York Times)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:20:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Apple says iCloud+ now includes Apple TV and Arcade for no extra fee in 100+ countries, and Apple Music Select, offering ad-free radio stations, in some markets (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:35:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Sources: ByteDance's H1 2026 net profit dropped by a single-digit percentage YoY to $20B and revenue rose ~30% to $120B; its 2025 revenue rose 29% to ~$200B (The Information)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:20:01 -0400 · Techmeme

New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to $335M+ (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:10:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid robot to safely work alongside humans without physical barriers by utilizing AI collision-avoidance software and new sensors (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:45:02 -0400 · Techmeme

HTC Vive Eagle smart glasses review: useful controls, lightweight, and focused on privacy, but inessential, expensive at $499+, and imaging needs to improve (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:30:00 -0400 · Techmeme

Grab agrees to acquire a 60% stake in Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome from Advance Intelligence Group and others for $1.49B; Atome had $470M in 2025 revenue (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:20:05 -0400 · Techmeme

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)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:10:02 -0400 · Techmeme

Filing: X and SpaceXAI move to dismiss their federal antitrust lawsuit in Texas against Apple, resolving accusations of Apple monopolizing smartphone markets (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:45:01 -0400 · Techmeme

Temporal, which makes open-source software that helps apps, including AI agents, recover from failure, raised $550M led by Lightspeed at a $12.55B valuation (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:35:00 -0400 · Techmeme

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!" (Hadriana Lowenkron/Bloomberg)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:25:01 -0400 · Techmeme

A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, based on interviews with him, his parents, and dozens of others, looking at his MMA training, AI pivot, management style, and more (Jeremy Stern/Colossus)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:05:02 -0400 · Techmeme

OpenAI employees need to oppose its support for Leading the Future, which seeks to chill federal regulation, and Congress should hold hearings on AI risks (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:40:01 -0400 · Techmeme