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Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, a Foldable Phone That Costs $1,999 (Wed, 09 Sep 2026)
At the company’s annual September product event, Apple also demonstrated its work on artificial intelligence and other new devices.
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How Amazon’s Zoox Is Taking On Waymo in San Francisco (Wed, 09 Sep 2026)
The Amazon-owned driverless car company is a distant second to Waymo. Its pitch to riders? Wine pop-ups, festival sponsorships and a car built to be filmed.
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OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’ (Tue, 08 Sep 2026)
The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics.
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The Mic Is On. So Is Live Auto-Tune. (Fri, 11 Sep 2026)
As audiences demand perfection from live performances, pitch correction technology has become an increasingly common way for singers to deliver.
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Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists (Fri, 11 Sep 2026)
Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.
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The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is Here (Fri, 11 Sep 2026)
The A.I. giants weren’t prepared for this.
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Could A.I. Really Kill All Humans? (Fri, 11 Sep 2026)
After an Anthropic researcher quit, warning that the A.I. race is “gambling with our lives,” Cade Metz joined Natalie Kitroeff on “The Call” to break down what’s at stake.
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California’s Governor Signs Landmark Online Child Safety Bills (Thu, 10 Sep 2026)
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that prohibits social media platforms from providing addictive features to users under 16, the first law of its kind in the nation.
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Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons (Thu, 10 Sep 2026)
In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine whether the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.
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How the New iPhone Duo’s Glass Screen Bends Without Breaking (Thu, 10 Sep 2026)
The screens of foldable phones are a triumph of materials science and microengineering.
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Why is Apple’s New Foldable iPhone Duo $1,999? (Thu, 10 Sep 2026)
The company unveiled a new iPhone that costs $1,999. Here are the economics behind that price tag.
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Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity (Wed, 09 Sep 2026)
Their warnings echo concerns that other artificial intelligence experts have voiced in recent months, as calls increase for a slowdown in the pace of development.
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Why California Is Reconsidering Its Decision to Shun Nuclear Power (Wed, 09 Sep 2026)
The state is considering extending the life of its last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, and allowing construction of new reactors to help meet its clean energy goals.
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Meta Introduces Muse, an A.I. Agent That Can Send Your Emails and Book Your Travel (Tue, 08 Sep 2026)
Muse, Meta’s new A.I. agent, acts as a personal digital assistant that connects to Facebook and Instagram, as well as third-party apps such as Spotify and OpenTable.
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Apple Expected to Unveil a Folding iPhone at Annual Launch Event (Tue, 08 Sep 2026)
Fans of the company’s products widely believe it will unveil a folding smartphone at its annual launch event on Wednesday.
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A Hacking Tool Built With A.I. Can Breach Phones Without a Click (Tue, 08 Sep 2026)
An attack discovered by A.I. researchers could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.
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Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple’s New Siri A.I. (Tue, 08 Sep 2026)
For the company’s new artificial intelligence system to take off, it will need plenty of support from the makers of popular apps on Apple’s phones.
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Virtual Taekwondo Takes the Contact Out of a Combat Sport (Mon, 07 Sep 2026)
The contactless version of the Korean martial art is making its debut at this year’s Asian Games. Critics say it’s a glorified video game.
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Early Data Indicates an A.I.-Generated Drug Could Slow Aging (Mon, 07 Sep 2026)
Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition. Its maker says the drug also seems to reduce the biological hallmarks of age.
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How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips (Mon, 07 Sep 2026)
Washington imposed sanctions on Inspur because of its work with the Chinese military. But the company’s subsidiary kept shipping Nvidia’s best chips to feed China’s leading A.I. firms.
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Authors Wrangle With Publishers Over $1.5 Billion Anthropic A.I. Settlement (Sat, 05 Sep 2026)
The tech giant must pay $3,000 per pirated book that it used to train its chatbot. Many authors fear they could lose funds to others in the book business.
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Kenyans Made a Living Writing College Essays. Then A.I. Arrived. (Sat, 05 Sep 2026)
Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.
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The Generation That’s Never Had to Say ‘Hello?’ (Sun, 06 Sep 2026)
Now that there’s rarely any mystery to who’s calling, Gen Z has adopted a range of custom phone greetings — including no greeting at all.
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Court Filings In A.I. Suit Invoke Copyright Law, Culture and Sports (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
Filings made Friday in The New York Times’s closely watched lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft included a range of copyright law and cultural references.
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F.B.I. Investigates Sale of Millions of Stolen Driver’s Licenses (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
The blog Krebs on Security reported on an identity theft service trying to sell scans of licenses and other documents belonging to people in Canada and the United States.
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Tumbler Ridge Shooting Survivors File 30 Lawsuits Against OpenAI (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
The survivors contend that the company should have notified the police when it shut down the shooter’s disturbing ChatGPT account eight months before the February attack in British Columbia.
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Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I. (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
Companies like AT&T are increasingly using cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over expensive ones from Anthropic and OpenAI.
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Tesla’s Cybercab Is Being Investigated by Federal Regulators (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it would examine whether the company’s new self-driving taxi, which has no steering wheel, meets federal auto regulations.
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The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
This is probably the most important thing to have happened in A.I. this year.
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