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On ‘Cupertino,’ Creators of the ‘The Good Wife’ Go to Silicon Valley

17 September 2026 at 11:34
The prolific producers Michelle and Robert King target tech bigwigs in their newest show. “They’re really the stupidest and dumbest people,” Robert King said.

How Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s Writings Help Explain A.I. Fears

17 September 2026 at 05:00
The collected essays of Dario Amodei help explain why some people are so worried about artificial intelligence.

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Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, on Tuesday.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Is Wordsmaxxing With 1,400 New Definitions

16 September 2026 at 16:54
Now you have no excuse for not knowing the meaning of “cuffing season,” “shishito” or “glow-up.”

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A copy of Merriam-Webster’s 12th edition of the “Collegiate Dictionary.” The company is adding 1,400 words to its online catalog, some of which will go in print.

Age Limits for Social Media Outlined by European Union

16 September 2026 at 04:20
A proposed law would bar children under 13 from using social media across the 27-nation bloc.

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Teens using their phones in Valence, France, this summer. The EU Kids Act would restrict social media use for children under 15.

Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown

16 September 2026 at 13:22
On social media, Meta’s chief executive appeared to jab at Anthropic by saying that leading A.I. labs should be focused on safety rather than improving their own technology.

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Mark Zuckerberg in July. In a social media post on Tuesday, he said that leading A.I. labs should be focused on safety rather than improving their own technology.

Senate Votes to Block Crypto Bill in Major Blow to the Industry

15 September 2026 at 16:06
The landmark legislation, known as the Clarity Act, stalled in the Senate as Democrats raised concerns about President Trump’s personal investments in crypto.

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The bill passed in the House last year, but it has faced numerous delays in the Senate.

Gates Foundation Pledges $1 Billion to Combat A.I. Inequality

15 September 2026 at 10:11
Bill Gates, the foundation’s chairman, has been vocal about the dangers of artificial intelligence. The donation will be invested in A.I. projects to bridge social inequalities.

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Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft and the chairman of the Gates Foundation, has warned that artificial intelligence poses a grave threat to jobs and human life.

Alex Bores Wants Democrats to Make AI Safety a 2028 Election Issue

Alex Bores, who lost a congressional primary contest that revolved around A.I. regulation, is trying to position himself at the center of the conversation for the next presidential election.

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Alex Bores campaigning in Central Park in June. He lost a Democratic primary contest for the House that centered on A.I. regulation.

Amazon Suspends Flights With Airline Whose Plane Crashed in Miami

14 September 2026 at 12:42
The online retailer said it would “pause” its relationship with 21 Air, the cargo airline operating a Boeing 767 that overshot a runway in Miami.

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Amazon’s Prime Air operations uses several cargo airlines to fly planes on its behalf.

Some in Silicon Valley Are Questioning the Calls for an A.I. Slowdown

13 September 2026 at 23:12
The debate over the safety of artificial intelligence grew personal as key tech leaders said calls for government regulation were self-serving and misplaced.

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OpenAI offices in San Francisco. Sam Altman, the company’s chief executive, agreed with the Anthropic chief’s call to slow down artificial intelligence advancements.

What Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Argued in His Call for AI Slowdown

13 September 2026 at 21:04
Dario Amodei’s 3,800-word letter laid out a three-step plan to rein in artificial intelligence.

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Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, at a summit this year. His letter also called for cooperation from A.I. companies from other democratic countries.

Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown

12 September 2026 at 20:15
In an essay, the head of Anthropic laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.

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Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, in February. “Over the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence,” he wrote in an essay.

Inside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence Doomsday

13 September 2026 at 22:31
Researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google are increasingly trying to raise awareness about the risks of artificial intelligence.

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A demonstration of Anthropic’s Claude Cowork A.I. agent in May. The company’s employees have been talking about the risks of artificial intelligence after a colleague, citing dangers, resigned this week.

How Minnesota Became the Front Line in the Fight Over Prediction Markets

11 September 2026 at 10:35
The state was the first to pass a law banning Kalshi and Polymarket. A lawsuit filed by a federal agency may set a precedent on who gets to regulate them.

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State Representative Emma Greenman in the Minnesota State Capitol, where she helped pass a law banning prediction markets in the spring.

The Mic Is On. So Is Live Auto-Tune.

11 September 2026 at 07:21
As audiences demand perfection from live performances, pitch correction technology has become an increasingly common way for singers to deliver.

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The girl group Flo performing in London last year. The Grammy-nominated trio typically use some level of live Auto-Tune to smooth out their vocals, they said.

Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists

11 September 2026 at 05:01
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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Elon Musk bought X, which was then known as Twitter, in 2022 and vowed to remove child sexual abuse material from the site, calling it “Priority #1.”

California’s Governor Signs Landmark Online Child Safety Bills

10 September 2026 at 16:49
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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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s actions follow a series of social media trials this year, in which thousands of teenagers, schools and states have accused Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube of hooking young users with products being compared to cigarettes.

Why is Apple’s New Foldable iPhone Duo $1,999?

10 September 2026 at 13:20
The company unveiled a new iPhone that costs $1,999. Here are the economics behind that price tag.

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Apple’s iPhone Duo will cost $1,999 when it arrives in October to compete with Samsung’s $1,900 Galaxy foldable.

Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons

10 September 2026 at 17:50
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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The report Anthropic published on Thursday cataloged a litany of misuses of its A.I. models, including the chatbot Claude, over the past eight months.

Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, a Foldable Phone That Costs $1,999

9 September 2026 at 18:04
At the company’s annual September product event, Apple also demonstrated its work on artificial intelligence and other new devices.

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Apple chief executive John Ternus introduced Duo, a foldable iPhone, on Wednesday.

Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity

9 September 2026 at 20:12
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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A protest outside Anthropic’s offices in San Francisco.

How Amazon’s Zoox Is Taking On Waymo in San Francisco

9 September 2026 at 18:14
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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Zoox, owned by Amazon, offers free rides in San Francisco, which has become a center for autonomous vehicle experiments.

OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’

8 September 2026 at 17:02
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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Related to a set of equations about fluid mechanics, the “Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem” has long ranked among the great unsolved problems in mathematics.

Meta Introduces Muse, an A.I. Agent That Can Send Your Emails and Book Your Travel

8 September 2026 at 15:00
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.

Apple Expected to Unveil a Folding iPhone at Annual Launch Event

8 September 2026 at 12:03
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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The look of Apple’s iPhones hasn’t changed that much over the years.

A Hacking Tool Built With A.I. Can Breach Phones Without a Click

8 September 2026 at 12:50
An attack discovered by A.I. researchers could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.

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Researchers at Calif, a security company, recently built a hacking tool in a little more than a week that could run roughshod across WeChat, the popular messaging platform.

Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple’s New Siri A.I.

8 September 2026 at 05:04
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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The new Siri is a revamp of Apple’s A.I. technology.

Early Data Indicates an A.I.-Generated Drug Could Slow Aging

7 September 2026 at 11:12
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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Rentosertib, Insilico Medicine’s small-molecule drug candidate developed and designed using generative A.I. for treating chronic lung disease, at the company’s research and development facility in Shanghai.

Virtual Taekwondo Takes the Contact Out of a Combat Sport

7 September 2026 at 22:44
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.

How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips

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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Aivres’s research and development technology center and manufacturing facility in Fremont, Calif.

Kenyans Made a Living Writing College Essays. Then A.I. Arrived.

5 September 2026 at 17:11
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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Teresios Bundi, who ran an essay-writing business catering to overseas students, said his experience with artificial intelligence was a warning for online gig workers.

Authors Wrangle With Publishers Over $1.5 Billion Anthropic A.I. Settlement

5 September 2026 at 05:03
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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An Anthropic logo at an event in San Francisco in May. The tech giant will have to pay more than $1.5 billion in a settlement over using books to train its chatbots.

Court Filings In A.I. Suit Invoke Copyright Law, Culture and Sports

4 September 2026 at 20:18
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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The New York Times claims in a lawsuit that OpenAI and Microsoft infringed on publishers’ copyrighted material by using their articles to train artificial intelligence.
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