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Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior…

Roundtables: Could AI really kill us all?

Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Join MIT Technology Review executive…

The Download: biotech’s future and cheaper, cleaner steel

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotech Every year, MIT Technology…

Valve is still figuring out ‘how and when’ to do Steam Deck 2

Now that Valve has finally launched its entire 2026 hardware lineup - the Steam Controller , the Steam Machine , and today's Steam Frame - are we any closer to a next-gen Steam Deck handheld? Valve isn't saying so yet.…

From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani

Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube , Apple , and Spotify . See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. Brought to You by • Antithesis – verify…

Rocket Lab is seeing red about NASA's decision on a Mars spacecraft

In theory, developing a spacecraft that will fly to Mars, insert itself into orbit around the red planet, and relay transmissions back and forth to large satellite dishes on Earth is a relatively straightforward…

FATHER

A Mac dashboard for site traffic, deploys, uptime, and SEO Discussion

Muse Spark 1.3 ✨, Gemini 3.8 Flash ⚡, intelligence vs cost 📊

Show HN: Jexxa: High Speed on Device Dictation

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4 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Last day to exhibit at Disrupt is Sept 18. 4 days left. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators and tech leaders October 13–15.

Show HN: Panel – A research workspace where the agent can build its own panes

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An Interview with OpenAI President Greg Brockman About Astra and Alignment

Listen to this post: Good morning, This week’s Stratechery interview is with OpenAI President and co-founder Greg Brockman . Brockman dropped out of college in 2010 to join Stripe, and rose to become the company’s CTO;…

For the first time, the US military confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink made the first public declaration Monday that the United States has placed "space control weapons" in orbit, an announcement that will surely reverberate in the power centers of Beijing…

So you want to use OpenRouter?

So you want to use OpenRouter? One of OpenRouter's selling points is that it "handles fallbacks automatically and picks the most cost-effective option for each request", so you can call a single API endpoint for a model…

Jensen Huang took a call from Trump, and showed off something else, too

When Jensen Huang took a live call from Trump, some of us were more focused on the phone he used to take it.

commit-rewriter 0.1

Release: commit-rewriter 0.1 I built this little web app the other day to help edit the commit messages for the Datasette security releases . The initial commits were full of coding agent cruft and references to issue…

Proofrr

One workspace for creative feedback, reviews, and approvals Discussion

Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please . Researchers discover another OpenAI agent emergent…

tiun.

Auth, billing, and payments for AI builders Discussion

DeepSeek Flash v4.1 🤖, Siri AI 📱, Anthropic AI economics 📈

The premium AirPods 5 are the best open-ear earbuds Apple has made

The AirPods 5 earbuds and case look identical to the AirPods 4. It's almost a guarantee that the new version of a product will be, at best, the same price as the old one, and often (especially in the past couple years)…

Fable 5.1 kicks off launch week at the frontier

The theme of the last month has been safety over shipping when it comes to models from the two AI leaders. The calendar turning to September appears to have flipped a switch. Anthropic kicked off the next wave of…

GM updates its trucks’ native software to coexist with CarPlay

General Motors is polishing up the software experience in its bestselling trucks in an effort to reduce the amount of dangerous tapping and swiping that's required to access the most-used controls. It's also giving…

Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents

Their startup, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from First Harmonic.

siift

Turn AI noise into better business decisions Discussion

AI models need more data about biology, and OpenAI is paying to create it

Last year Ruxandra Teslo, a policy analyst who focuses on clinical trials, posted an idea for supercharging medical AI systems: Use data from failed biotech companies. By bidding at their bankruptcy proceedings, she…

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

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Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please . AI is accelerating some types of progress but not others: …A…

Java 27 Released

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Narrative

AI-first video editor, just describe edits & refine in chat Discussion

Import AI 469: Science AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck's technological pessimism

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please . DiG-bench shows that Fable displays some creative intuition:…

Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux

Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube , Apple , and Spotify . See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. Brought to You by • turbopuffer – a…

Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance

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Write Things Down

Listen to this post : Log in to listen It was Merlin Mann and his 43folders website who introduced me to David Allen and Getting Things Done . Getting Things Done , a book which I have gifted multiple people, is first…

OpenAI Ads, Amazon Ads in ChatGPT, Walmart to Accept Apple Pay

ChatGPT ads are working, and solve Amazon's biggest problem with chatbots. Then, Walmart finally gives in to Apple Pay, because fighting the status quo is hard.

OpenAI’s “generational leap” with GPT-6 Astra

The long-awaited GPT-6 Astra has finally arrived. OpenAI calls it "a new generation of intelligence," with president Greg Brockman going further with "Welcome to the AGI era." So has AI's loftiest, least-defined bar…

Why Ramp built its own in-house coding agent, Inspect

At a select few tech companies, they write most of their code with their own, custom-built, internal AI coding agents. This is different from most of the industry which uses AI coding agents and harnesses like Codex,…

What is happening with code reviews?

One question haunting the minds of CTOs and heads of engineering whom I’ve been talking with, is how to deal with large quantities of code review which have only been growing now that AI agents generate most code at…

Muse Code 👨‍💻, Runway Solaris ☀️, OpenClaw 2.0 🤖

Volvo increases the batteries for 2028 XC60 and XC90 plug-in refresh

Volvo provided flights from Washington, DC, to London, England, and accommodation so Ars could see its refreshed vehicles. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. There must be a case of upgrade fever taking hold in…

Trump, China both shoot down the AI slowdown

The U.S. and Chinese governments just agreed on something in AI. Unfortunately for the frontier CEOs pushing for regulation and pacing, it's that Dario Amodei's slowdown plan is a bad idea. President Donald Trump called…

Spotify finally lets parents exclude kids’ music from Wrapped and recommendations

Parents can finally get the kids' music out of Spotify Wrapped and other personalized playlists.

Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite

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Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers

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Meta, Google join the AI launch party

We’re only three days into September, and a flurry of new AI models has already hit the leaderboards. Both Meta and Google just joined the launch party Anthropic kicked off, but on very different trajectories — Zuck and…

The contagion of fear

The contagion of fear Bryan Cantrill responds to the tweet by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon confirming that many Anthropic researchers believe AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade". Bryan shares a…

Founder’s cost-cutting obsession drove Unitree lead in cheap humanoid robots

China leads the world in churning out humanoid robots and four-legged robot dogs that also happen to be the most affordable on the market—and Unitree Robotics’ founder Wang Xingxing is arguably one of the people most…

California Brown Pelican

California Brown Pelican, in San Mateo County, CA, US The Pacifica Pier shut down at the start of June after a crack in the concrete walkway made access to the pier unsafe. It has since been entirely taken over by…

How to Deal With Errors and Failures in LLM-Powered Applications

The all-in-one intelligent cloud (Sponsored) Writing code is fast, shipping it is still hard. Railway’s push-button compute, storage, and networking is built for both small and hyperscale software. Humans and agents…

OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems is a new bombshell report from Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx - three of the four authors of the report on the agent attack on disused wikis…

Show HN: Ordewell – turn one goal into an ordered plan of coding-agent tasks

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India ends free ride for larger transactions on its ubiquitous digital payments network

India will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments made through UPI starting October 15.

New Italian unicorn Exein rides the physical AI wave

Italian startup Exein has raised a $270 million round of funding led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation.

2026.37: Duo Threats

(Photo by Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted links are free…

AI is breaking our proxies for expertise

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Claude proves Fermat 🧮, automated AI researcher 🔬, Z1 efficiency chip ⚡

Learn Claude Code, evals, AI systems, and more: ByteByteGo Live is here

Most online courses never get finished (~4% completion). Live cohorts get ~40%, roughly 10x higher. Live courses are the only courses people actually finish. So we’re launching ByteByteGo Live. The lineup: Check It Out…

This Atlantic hurricane season is about to do something that hasn't happened in 175 years

Last week, the Atlantic hurricane season blew through its traditional peak—which comes around September 10—with nary a tropical wave in sight, let alone a storm or hurricane. This is remarkable. Usually this is the time…