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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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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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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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California, an Environmental Bastion, Warms to Nuclear Energy (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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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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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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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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Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.
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How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
Researchers investigating how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure weren’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.
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Nvidia Buys Hugging Face in $12.9 Billion Deal (Thu, 03 Sep 2026)
The acquisition of the start-up is an indication of Nvidia’s growing role as Silicon Valley’s central banker and its emphasis on open-source technology.
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Which Investors Will Get Rich From Anthropic’s IPO? (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
When Anthropic goes public in a blockbuster offering, which investors will profit? The answer says a lot about how much start-up investing has changed over the years.
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Noise and Motion Monitors in Their Homes? These Tenants Say No. (Tue, 08 Sep 2026)
The public housing authority in Concord, N.H., installed monitoring devices in 300 homes. Tenants are now suing to remove the Minut sensors.
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Justice Dept. Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Suit (Wed, 02 Sep 2026)
The department argued in a court filing that OpenAI legally used articles by The New York Times to develop A.I., adding that national security depended on American tech dominance.
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Patrick Gleeson, Who Made Synthesizers Part of Jazz, Dies at 91 (Wed, 02 Sep 2026)
He abandoned a job teaching college English in the 1960s to become a pioneer of the instrument, playing onstage with Herbie Hancock’s jazz band.
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Uber Lays Off 10% of Employees in Sweeping Reorganization (Wed, 02 Sep 2026)
The layoffs affect about 3,300 workers, as Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi bets on a “leaner organization.”
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In a Big Win, Google Won’t Have to Break Up Its Ad Tech Business, Court Rules (Wed, 02 Sep 2026)
In a long-awaited decision, a federal judge said Google must change its ad tech business to address antitrust issues, but did not disclose the measures.
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