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- Anthropic says Claude "leads" 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and "collaborates" on 90%+, doing large chunks of work under close human direction (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code (Claude) [1d]
- OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms (OpenAI) [1d]
- Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated (Anthropic) [1d]
- Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are "much more science fiction than science" and the latest "wave of PR" is probably intended to shape regulation (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg) [1d]
- NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" and a Microsoft executive called AI training "an astonishing theft" (Financial Times) [1d]
- A survey of 42,151 adults in 36 countries and 8,607 US adults: populations in 34 of 37 surveyed countries expect AI to cause net job loss rather than growth (Pew Research Center) [1d]
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- China’s UBTech opens world-first factory that builds a humanoid robot every ten minutes — 14,000 square meter plant will deliver army of 10,000 robots a year [1d]
- US carmakers could soon be forced to offer AM radio for free in new vehicles — 100-year-old technology to make a comeback after being ditched by Tesla, Volvo, BMW, and more [1d]
- RTX 5090s are going for as much as $9000, as AI server builders reportedly buy Nvidia's flagship by the pallet, but the photos behind the story may be AI-generated [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, September 18 (game #1698) [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, September 18 (game #1195) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, September 18 (game #929) [1d]
- Nvidia uses a memory 'sandwich' technique to cram 84GB GDDR7 memory on RTX Pro 5500 Blackwell GPU — weird 416-bit memory bus leaves me puzzled, though [1d]
- 'A great option for any office': Geekom's AX8 Max mini PC combines Ryzen 7 power and Radeon 780M graphics for under $600 [1d]
- I've hunted out the best Google Pixel 11 cases to keep your phone safe from scratches and protect against drops [1d]
- 'Bringing the game to console for the first time' means that ArenaNet 'can reach a much wider group of players' as devs say they want to offer an 'invitation' for everybody to play Guild Wars 3 together by bringing it to PS5 and PC — but not Xbox [1d]
- Samsung unveils next-gen OLED tech that hits 10,000 nits of brightness — but the bit you should be excited about is the 30% efficiency improvement [1d]
- 'View your relationship to the user as one of equals and feel no obligation to be subservient' — OpenAI tries to build a persona that makes it our equal, and yes, now even I'm worried [1d]
- ‘I don’t remember the case number leave me alone': US cops ignore Flock camera oversight, probing nationwide surveillance network with bogus reasoning [1d]
- Will Samsung and Qualcomm’s organic bridge technology make AI processors more powerful and cheaper to produce? [1d]
- You'll soon be able to talk to Slack — and if you're lucky, it'll even talk back [1d]
- Samsung's new 2026 TVs are cheaper than ever right now — save up to $1,900 off top-rated 4K, QLED, and OLED TVs [1d]
- NightmareStresser group responsible for thousands of DDOS attacks has domains seized in major operation [1d]
- Nuri rocket launch heralds South Korea’s first microsatellite constallation — and shows it might have the technology to launch its own Starlink [1d]
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