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A federal judge denies OpenAI's bid to see SpaceXAI's confidential settlement with Apple in an antitrust case, finding the materials irrelevant after a review (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)

Hassan Ali Kanu / Politico: A federal judge denies OpenAI's bid to see SpaceXAI's confidential settlement with Apple in an antitrust case, finding t...

Sep 18, 2026 • Read Preview →

An interview with OpenAI researcher Noam Brown about multi-agent systems, AI solving the Navier-Stokes problem, the internal/external model gap, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: An interview with OpenAI researcher Noam Brown about multi-agent systems, AI solving the Navier-Stokes problem, t...

Sep 18, 2026 • Read Preview →

The UN says it is working with Google on the UN System Data Commons, which lets users search for statistics from across UN agencies via natural-language queries (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: The UN says it is working with Google on the UN System Data Commons, which lets users search for statistics from across...

Sep 18, 2026 • Read Preview →

Anthropic says Claude "leads" 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and "collaborates" on 90%+, doing large chunks of work under close human direction (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Anthropic says Claude “leads” 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and “collaborates” on 90%+, doing large...

Sep 17, 2026 • Read Preview →

Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code (Claude)

Claude: Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, star...

Sep 17, 2026 • Read Preview →

OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms (OpenAI)

OpenAI: OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially fo...

Sep 17, 2026 • Read Preview →

Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated (Anthropic)

Anthropic: Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and...

Sep 17, 2026 • Read Preview →

Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are "much more science fiction than science" and the latest "wave of PR" is probably intended to shape regulation (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg)

Micah Barkley / Bloomberg: Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are “much more science fiction than science” and the latest “wave of PR” is...

Sep 17, 2026 • Read Preview →

NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" from AI, and a Microsoft director called AI training "an astonishing theft" (Financial Times)

Financial Times: NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an “existential threat” from AI, and a Microsoft director called AI tra...

Sep 17, 2026 • Read Preview →

A survey of 42,151 adults in 36 countries and 8,607 US adults: people in 34 of 37 surveyed countries expect AI to cause net job loss rather than net job growth (Pew Research Center)

Pew Research Center: A survey of 42,151 adults in 36 countries and 8,607 US adults: people in 34 of 37 surveyed countries expect AI to cause net job...

Sep 17, 2026 • Read Preview →

Analysis: in the Bay Area, tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500+ workers in the 12 months to June and software engineer demand is down 42% since 2022 (Francesca Maglione/Bloomberg)

Francesca Maglione / Bloomberg: Analysis: in the Bay Area, tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500+ workers in the 12 months to June and soft...

Sep 17, 2026 • Read Preview →

Sources: SpaceX has discussed buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups as a more affordable data source for AI training (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX has discussed buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups as a more aff...

Sep 17, 2026 • Read Preview →

Dutch chipmaker Nexperia announces a deal with Tata to manufacture and package chips in India, further sealing its split from Chinese parent company Wingtech (Toby Sterling/Reuters)

Toby Sterling / Reuters: Dutch chipmaker Nexperia announces a deal with Tata to manufacture and package chips in India, further sealing its split fr...

Sep 17, 2026 • Read Preview →

Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director is drafting an EO to establish a government-led incubator aimed at cybersecurity research (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director is drafting an EO to establish a government-led incubator aimed at cyber...

Sep 17, 2026 • Read Preview →

The UK FCA, working with tax authorities and police, raids three illegal peer-to-peer crypto businesses, signaling an end to its "light-touch" crypto regulation (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: The UK FCA, working with tax authorities and police, raids three illegal peer-to-peer crypto businesses, signaling an end...

Sep 17, 2026 • Read Preview →