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.

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

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By: Mike Isaac and Kate Conger

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.

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.

Why It’s Difficult for Tech Companies to Rein In A.I.

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By: Sheera Frenkel and Dylan Freedman

12 September 2026 at 12:18

Researchers say artificial intelligence is developing faster than the systems put in place to monitor and control it.

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

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By: Lauren McCarthy

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.

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.

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By: Malia Mendez

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.

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

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By: Kate Conger and Michael H. Keller

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.

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.”

The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is Here

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By: Ezra Klein and Rollin Hu

11 September 2026 at 04:00

The A.I. giants weren’t prepared for this.

Could A.I. Really Kill All Humans?

NYT: Technology

10 September 2026 at 17:53

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.

California’s Governor Signs Landmark Online Child Safety Bills

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By: Cecilia Kang and Laurel Rosenhall

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.

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?

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By: Brian X. Chen

10 September 2026 at 13:20

The company unveiled a new iPhone that costs $1,999. Here are the economics behind that price tag.

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

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By: Dustin Volz

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.

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.

How the New iPhone Duo’s Glass Screen Bends Without Breaking

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By: William J. Broad

11 September 2026 at 11:17

The screens of foldable phones are a triumph of materials science and microengineering.

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

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By: Kalley Huang

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.

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

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By: Kate Conger

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.

A protest outside Anthropic’s offices in San Francisco.

Why California Is Reconsidering Its Decision to Shun Nuclear Power

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By: Ivan Penn and Adam Perez

9 September 2026 at 12:39

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.

Established nuclear plants like Diablo Canyon in California tend to produce relatively affordable power.

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

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By: Emmy Martin

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.

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’

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By: Cade Metz

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.

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

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By: Eli Tan

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

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By: Kalley Huang

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.

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

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By: Dustin Volz

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.

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.

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By: Kalley Huang and Brian X. Chen

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.

The new Siri is a revamp of Apple’s A.I. technology.

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

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By: Cade Metz

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.

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

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By: Yan Zhuang and Jean Chung

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

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By: Ana Swanson · Paul Mozur · Tripp Mickle and Keith Bradsher

7 September 2026 at 21:54

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.

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

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

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By: Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur

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.

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

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By: Neil Vigdor

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.

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.

The Generation That’s Never Had to Say ‘Hello?’

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By: Alisha Haridasani Gupta

6 September 2026 at 22:40

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.

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

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By: Mike Isaac and Karen Weise

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.

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.

F.B.I. Investigates Sale of Millions of Stolen Driver’s Licenses

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By: Christine Hauser

4 September 2026 at 17:11

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.

The F.B.I. is looking into the sale of stolen scanned identity documents.

Tesla’s Cybercab Is Being Investigated by Federal Regulators

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By: Jack Ewing

4 September 2026 at 14:07

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.

A Tesla Cybercab in Austin, Texas, where the company has started offering paid rides in the driverless vehicles.

Tumbler Ridge Shooting Survivors File 30 Lawsuits Against OpenAI

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By: Michael Levenson

4 September 2026 at 13:19

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.

A memorial for the victims of a deadly mass shooting at a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in February.

Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I.

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By: Eli Tan

4 September 2026 at 10:55

Companies like AT&T are increasingly using cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over expensive ones from Anthropic and OpenAI.

The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

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By: Kevin Roose · Casey Newton · Whitney Jones · Davis Land · Vjeran Pavic · Chris Wood · Dan Powell · Elisheba Ittoop · Marion Lozano and Diane Wong

4 September 2026 at 07:00

This is probably the most important thing to have happened in A.I. this year.

Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I.

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By: Kevin Roose

4 September 2026 at 12:12

The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face

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By: Dylan Freedman

4 September 2026 at 11:15

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.

Hjalmar Wijk, METR chief scientist, left, and Ajeya Cotra, METR researcher, at their research center in Berkeley, Calif.

Nvidia Buys Hugging Face in $12.9 Billion Deal

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By: Kalley Huang · Lauren Hirsch and Kate Conger

3 September 2026 at 14:38

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.

Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, has overseen the company as its quarterly profits have increased tenfold. The company is spending those resources on acquisitions, including of Hugging Face.

Why the Courts Are Hesitant to Punish Tech Giants Like Meta and Google

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By: Steve Lohr

3 September 2026 at 11:04

After finding antitrust violations, federal courts have been reluctant to impose harsh sanctions. They fear meddling in markets where technology is racing ahead.

Creating effective remedies is difficult for the courts, particularly because of the rapid pace of change in the tech industry.

Which Investors Will Get Rich From Anthropic’s IPO?

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By: Erin Griffith

3 September 2026 at 05:02

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.

Noise and Motion Monitors in Their Homes? These Tenants Say No.

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By: Kashmir Hill

8 September 2026 at 19:54

The public housing authority in Concord, N.H., installed monitoring devices in 300 homes. Tenants are now suing to remove the Minut sensors.

Tenants in public housing in Concord, N.H., were troubled to learn the wide array of data that new monitors in their homes collected, including decibel levels, Bluetooth signals and motion.

Justice Dept. Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Suit

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By: Karen Weise and Mike Isaac

2 September 2026 at 14:48

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.

The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023 in a landmark copyright case.

Uber Lays Off 10% of Employees in Sweeping Reorganization

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By: Emmy Martin

2 September 2026 at 13:47

The layoffs affect about 3,300 workers, as Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi bets on a “leaner organization.”

Patrick Gleeson, Who Made Synthesizers Part of Jazz, Dies at 91

NYT: Technology

By: Alex Williams

2 September 2026 at 13:29

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.

In a Big Win, Google Won’t Have to Break Up Its Ad Tech Business, Court Rules

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By: David McCabe and Tripp Mickle

2 September 2026 at 16:50

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.

The government had asked the court to require Google to sell off parts of its business.

Get to Know Your Phone’s Built-In Emergency Kit

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By: J. D. Biersdorfer

2 September 2026 at 05:03

In times of natural disasters and other dangers, special features tucked away on your iPhone or Android device could help make a difference.

Apple’s more recent iPhone models include the ability to communicate with emergency services by text chat over a satellite connection, as well as a demonstration mode.

Missouri Voters Appear to Recall City Councilman Over Data Center Support

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By: David McCabe and Lauren McCarthy

1 September 2026 at 22:47

Initial results showed that residents of Independence, Mo., voted overwhelmingly to recall an official who backed billions of dollars in tax breaks for a data center.

Organizers of the recall vote said the councilman, John Perkins, had failed to engage the public while the city negotiated with the developer of a data center project.

Map Apps Are Handling Trump’s Renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake America Differently

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By: Victor Mather

1 September 2026 at 20:40

Navigation companies face a new dilemma after President Trump ordered Lake Ontario to be renamed Lake America.

The companies making map apps are having to respond to President Trump’s order to change the lake’s name from Lake Ontario to Lake America.

John Ternus Replaces Tim Cook as Apple CEO

NYT: Technology

By: Kalley Huang

1 September 2026 at 05:01

Big technology and management changes are greeting John Ternus, whose long-serving predecessor, Tim Cook, will stay on as executive chair.

John Ternus, right, who became Apple’s chief executive on Tuesday, with Tim Cook, who held the job for 15 years, at the Sun Valley Conference in Idaho in July.

FTC and 22 States Sue Amazon Over Advertising Practices

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By: Karen Weise

31 August 2026 at 18:26

Regulators say the e-commerce giant forced more than a million advertisers to pay more than they should have. The company denies the claims.

The Federal Trade Commission and the states said Amazon misled brands and sellers into paying more for ads; the company is denying the accusations.

How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together

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By: Cecilia Kang and Eli Tan

29 August 2026 at 07:00

State attorneys general spent months in negotiations. Then, as its legal losses mounted, the social media giant’s new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to the table.

Meta’s $17.1 billion agreement with states followed losses in court over claims that the social media is addictive and harmful to children.

Influencers Have a Lot to Say About Politics. Many Are Quietly Paid for It.

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By: Ken Bensinger and Stuart A. Thompson

29 August 2026 at 19:14

Their videos have proliferated on social media, but the payments are frequently hidden from viewers.

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