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- Anthropic says Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads and up to 45% less for highly agentic work (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) [3d]
- Anthropic prices Fable 5.1 at $10/1M input tokens and $50/1M output tokens, unchanged from Fable 5, and cuts cache read pricing by 75% to $0.25/1M tokens (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack) [3d]
- India's JioHotstar launches internationally without live sports, replacing Hotstar in the UK, Canada, and Singapore; the company says it has 500M+ MAUs in India (TechCrunch) [3d]
- IPO filing: SB Energy says it has 8.8GW of data center capacity contracted or under construction across Texas and Ohio and a $430B data center segment backlog (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the Sun's nearest star system, by 2029, using a trajectory discovered by PSI's AI system (Michelle Kim/MIT Technology Review) [3d]
- MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 30% YoY to $771.8M, vs. $735M est., Atlas revenue up ~29% YoY, below major hedge funds' expectations; MDB drops 12%+ after hours (Mariapaula Gonzalez/Barron's Online) [3d]
- Google rolls out its September Android Drop, with remembered items in Find Hub, Guided vision in Gemini Live, Motion Assist to reduce motion sickness, and more (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica) [3d]
- Filing: Apple says John Ternus will get a compensation package worth ~$58M in FY 2027, while Tim Cook's role as executive chairman will pay ~$47M (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3.8 Flash as soon as Wednesday; Gemini 4 has done well on pre-training evals but still needs to complete post-training (Erin Woo/Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- The US urged G20 members to avoid writing entirely new AI regulations, and instead focus on writing rules for "novel" situations that involve the tech (Reuters) [3d]
- Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.41B, vs. $3.35B est., and acquires Console, which provides AI-powered IT service management (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [3d]
- Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are Anthropic's first models to watermark text outputs; a detection API is available to eligible groups as required under EU law (Ben Patterson/PCWorld) [3d]
- Apple updates Apple Maps to show Lake America for US users, Lake Ontario for Canadian users, and both for the rest of the world, following Trump's EO (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Memo: Alexandr Wang says Meta is switching from Google Chat to Slack for internal communications as Slack is the "strongest platform available today for agents" (Business Insider) [3d]
- Dell reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $46.97B, vs. $44.92B est., and forecasts $192B in FY 2027 revenue, vs. $172.67B est.; DELL jumps 9%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [3d]
- OpenAI says Astra is its first model to reach its "Critical" cyber threshold and warns safeguards may mistakenly flag legitimate activity as cyber misuse (Ina Fried/Axios) [3d]
- OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra "soon" but will make its advanced cyber capabilities available only to select partners (Wired) [3d]
- Sources: AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, has hit a valuation of $3.2B, up from $300M in April, and is profitable (Anna Tong/Forbes) [3d]
- Meta launches Muse Voice Transcribe, MSL's first real-time audio perception model, with streaming automatic speech recognition, trained with 70+ languages (Meta AI Research) [3d]
- Wafer, which makes AI agents that optimize open-source models for a business's workload, raised a $40M Series A, a source says at a $200M+ valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) [3d]
- Fei-Fei Li's World Labs unveils Atlas, a multimodal world model that generates image/video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D (World Labs) [3d]
- Anthropic says Fable 5.1 sets new standards on coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks, and can fix the root causes of software issues (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) [3d]
- Aslan, which offers AI agents for the FBI and wider intelligence community that can pose as analysts and undercover spies in online forums, raised $20.8M (Sam Sabin/Axios) [3d]
- Anthropic launches Enterprise Frontier Safeguards to let businesses control how their data is reviewed, stored, and managed, after pushback from customers (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [3d]
- Anthropic says Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads and up to 45% less for highly agentic work (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Anthropic unveils Claude Fable 5.1, which is generally available, and Mythos 5.1, for trusted partners and with cybersecurity and life sciences safeguards (Anthropic) [3d]
- Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform focused on Latinos in the US, raised a $200M Series C co-led by a16z and GC, including $113M in debt (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) [3d]
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- Anthropic reveals its view of how AI agents should interact with the physical world [3d]
- The Pentagon may have found a much cheaper alternative to Patriot missiles - for less than $750,000 a shot [3d]
- Nvidia GB300 DGX station desktop PC goes on sale for almost $91,100 — 7x costlier than a 256GB RAM Mac Studio M5 Ultra but with 748GB RAM [3d]
- Multiple healthcare giants hit by data breaches affecting patient records, social security numbers, and even implanted cardiac devices [3d]
- OpenAI data center chief leaves the company as exec exodus continues [3d]
- I applaud the ambition in The Blood of Dawnwalker, but this open-world RPG features too much busywork and not a strong enough vampire fantasy to truly excel [3d]
- I think Sonos just fully solved home audio, mostly by doing exactly what we want — even with AI [3d]
- US Army taps 5 firms for $2 billion Project Janus — BWXT and Westinghouse to build 20 nuclear microreactors at 5 bases by 2028 [3d]
- I've found 12 of the best Labor Day headphone deals — Sony, Bose, Shokz, and more from $38 [3d]
- 'The disguise becomes part of the answer key': Researchers find that AI is redefining what human writing means by self-correcting itself [3d]
- 'It's been particularly bad since Blackwell': Nvidia's new GPU driver has another nasty bug — and gamers are rapidly losing patience [3d]
- Cisco routers are being turned into surveillance vantage points to hoover up data on trusted networks — and it's all thanks to this new malware [3d]
- This phone accessory spots hidden cameras in 5 seconds — SweepLED prototype uses LED reflections and could cost only $7 [3d]
- Roland’s new digital piano is perfect for learners — it comes with Wi-Fi and connects to a beginner-friendly app to make things easy for music beginners [3d]
- SuperPACs are funneling millions of dollars into pro-AI candidates, with Trump saying communities that reject data centers will end up ‘backwards and poor’ [3d]
- Lexar just launched the coolest Mac dock ever — massive 22-in-1 dock includes an NVMe slot and 10GbE networking [3d]
- Tineco puts smarter, easier home cleaning in the spotlight at IFA 2026 [3d]
- AMD FPGA and Micron memory found in Russia's Iskander-1000 ballistic missile, Ukraine Intelligence claims — but stopping illegal trade is nearly impossible [3d]
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- Are We There Yet? Startup Wants to Launch an 80,000-Year Mission to Alpha Centauri [3d]
- I Tested My 19-Year-Old Vitamix Against Brand-New Models. Here’s Who Won [3d]
- Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro Could Come in Black, but Skip Silver This Year [3d]
- PlayStation Gamers Sue Sony Over What ‘Buying’ a Digital Game Really Means [3d]
- Razer’s New $100 Game Controller Folds Right Up for Your Pocket [3d]
- The Weekend Is Here, and We’ve Found the Best Labor Day Deals Worth Your Money [3d]
- Don’t Wait for the Weekend. Here Are the Best Labor Day Deals From Top Retailers [3d]
- These Are the Labor Day Deals Our Shopping Experts Think Are Actually Worth Buying [3d]
- These Are the Labor Day Deals Our Shopping Experts Think Are Actually Worth Buying [3d]
- Don’t Wait for Labor Day: The Best Deals Are Already Live [3d]
- Runway’s New AI Model Creates Digital Worlds Without Code [3d]
- Firefox Now Lets You Block Some Ads on iOS Devices [3d]
- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 2, #709 [3d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Sept. 2, #1179 [3d]
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- Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 2, #1901 [3d]
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- No ‘DMV for AI’: US Pushes Against AI Regulations at Global Forum [3d]
- Apple TV and Peacock Bundle Prices Have Changed, Too [3d]
- Android’s New Features Have Me Excited, Especially This One for Motion Sickness [3d]
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