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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its "adherence to safety practices and commitments." In a winding essay, Amodei proposed a three-step plan to "pace the frontier" - jargon that simply means to slow the pace of training and development to give companies time to build safeguards and regulators to evaluate models. Amodei says that giving external evaluators wide-ranging access is just the first step, and one it is taking now unilaterally. Step two would involve the industry coming together as a whole, likely with gove … Read the full story at The Verge.
Read original →What would it actually look like to "pace the frontier"?
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Read original →As AI matures and scales, organizations must decide: Where will these high-density workloads run?
Read original →President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data centers, raising health risks for Americans, a cadre of former EPA officials said this week in a briefing and new report. They are urging - perhaps futilely - the president to adopt a "Data Center Health Protection Pledge" to signal that the administration is taking the environmental threat seriously. At the start of his term, Trump's EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, proclaimed his goal of making America "the AI capital of the world" through deregulation. Since then, Zeldin and the White House have rolled back dozens of rules … Read the full story at The Verge.
Read original →Which color suits you best? | Photo: Nilay Patel / The Verge The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max are almost here. Announced at Apple's September 2026 "Sunrise and shine" event alongside the iPhone Duo and other new gear, the two upgraded phones feature the faster A20 Pro processor with more GPU power as well as more neural cores for AI-related tasks, plus some welcome improvements to the camera. The phones will arrive on Friday, September 18th, and preordering one is never a bad idea if you want to ensure you get the color and storage capacity configuration you're seeking. Speaking of, preorders are officially open. The 6.3-inch iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 for the 256GB model, and goes all the way u … Read the full story at The Verge.
Read original →Tom's Hardware Premium benchmarked the Qwen 3.8 model across multiple hardware platforms and analyzed the fragmented compute economy following IFA 2026. The piece addresses how diverse hardware choices and AI model performance variations are reshaping computing infrastructure investments.
Read original →The Verge reports on OpenAI's aggressive expansion into advanced mathematical reasoning capabilities, with the company claiming significant recent victories in a rapidly competitive domain. This reflects OpenAI's strategy to establish market dominance across foundational AI capability areas before competitors consolidate positions.
Read original →The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.
Read original →An alleged Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 96GB with 96GB of modded VRAM surfaces on Alibaba for $3888.
Read original →You only get one chance at a first impression, and getting to introduce Apple's first folding phone is certainly a strong way to start things off as Apple's CEO. On The Vergecast today, we're talking all about Apple's launch event: how John Ternus did in his first appearance as CEO, what we make of the new iPhones, and whether Apple is stepping into dangerous territory with its new AI features on the Apple Watch. First up, Allison Johnson joins me to discuss the new iPhones, which she had a chance to test in Cupertino. Both of us have some questions about the new variable aperture camera on the iPhone 18 Pro - and whether the real upgrade s … Read the full story at The Verge.
Read original →More flexibility on regulations could drive 5G forward
Read original →Mayor says municipality never received data needed for the grid connection
Read original →After admitting earlier this year that its AI models had hacked other companies' systems on a handful of occasions, Anthropic released a new report on Wednesday detailing the attacks. It reveals a string of incidents displaying what Anthropic deems its models' single-minded "recklessness" - and will likely fuel already raging concerns about cybersecurity and AI. In Anthropic's report, it detailed four cases this year in which its own AI models hacked an external company or exploited vulnerabilities. In one, an "internal, general-purpose research model" broke into third-party systems, using access tokens and passwords and downloading files. … Read the full story at The Verge.
Read original →Frank Shaw, Microsoft's chief communications officer for 17 years, is leaving the company. Leadership transitions in communications roles can signal shifts in corporate strategy or messaging priorities during critical periods.
Read original →Meta has leaked initial images of its 'Project Phoenix' slim headset ahead of an upcoming event. Hardware design iterations in spatial computing signal Meta's continued investment in AR/VR as a strategic market despite competitive and profitability pressures.
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