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- The US House advances the Ratepayer Protection Act, aimed at preventing data center-related utility costs from being passed on to consumers, by a vote of 417-3 (Justin Papp/CNBC) [1d]
- OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a new framework for reporting model misalignment (Axios) [1d]
- Sources: a group of 10 banks is providing a $22B loan to Blackstone and Alphabet's venture Crux AI, which provides compute for AI labs, to fund TPU purchases (Bloomberg) [1d]
- Sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is in talks to raise around $1B at a roughly $20B valuation, up from a $7.6B valuation in January (Bloomberg) [1d]
- Review of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistant and usage rates on the free plan seem generous, but trusting Meta with personal data will take some time (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass) [1d]
- X adds a "Trade" option to its Cashtag feature, letting US users complete trades at brokerages including Interactive Brokers, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, raised an additional $53M seed led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Self-driving tech company May Mobility plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.4B pro forma enterprise value and raise up to $337M in gross proceeds (Joann Muller/Axios) [1d]
- Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge) [1d]
- Scientists test underwater solar panels that work 10 meters beneath the waves —breakthrough perovskite tech could support self-powered marine drones [1d]
- How the mighty have fallen — the notorious Stuxnet malware source code has been replicated and posted on GitHub for all to see [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, September 17 (game #1697) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, September 17 (game #928) [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, September 17 (game #1194) [1d]
- Not sold the iPhone 18 Pro? There’s still time to grab the iPhone 17 Pro at a discount [1d]
- Panasonic is launching a new 4K Blu-ray player! Okay, it's very niche and is coming to Japan only so far — but it's the second new player this year, and I'm just happy we're getting new hardware [1d]
- Chinese scientists achieve 10 billion writing cycles in major future memory endurance breakthrough that improves endurance by 100x [1d]
- Quote of the day by pioneer Douglas Engelbart: 'The digital revolution is even more significant than the invention of writing or printing' — an audacious claim about interactive computing [1d]
- Forget AI ending humanity; what people are really worried about is AI taking their jobs — even if that's not exactly what's happening [1d]
- Playground Games says Fable will have a 60fps performance mode on Xbox Series X, but won't confirm PS5 or PC settings yet — 'We want the game to look great wherever you're playing it' [1d]
- Diablo 5 senior game director says the game will tell 'three stories,' including the past, the present desolation of Diablo's takeover, and the future 'terror forming' of the Sanctuary [1d]
- 'There's one never-ending challenge working for IKEA: cable management' — how Xbox collaborated with the Swedish designers to help solve the biggest problems for gamers while also making beautiful furniture [1d]
- First-ever battle between two autonomous naval drones 'won' by Ukraine — thanks to a salvo from a remote weapon turret [1d]
- Hackers found Flock cameras can track more than just cars — and Boston officials found camera data was shared despite being told it wouldn’t be [1d]
- Senator Bernie Sanders and Trump ally Steve Bannon unite in calls for more AI oversight [1d]
- Prime Day TV deals are already live —here are 9 top-rated models our experts recommend from $179.99 [1d]
- AMD could be working on an Nvidia DLSS 5 rival, but it'll be for next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs — and I've a feeling that may be too late [1d]
- Iran snoops on enemies of the state with Chosen Brick malware controlled using messaging apps [1d]
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