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European Battery Startups Turn to Nanotechnology After Gigafactory Setbacks

European battery startups are focusing on specialized materials and manufacturing technology as the region searches for ways to compete after high-profile failures including Northvolt and Morrow. Dutch companies LeydenJar and…

Silicon Valley Pushes Back on Anthropic Insiders’ Warnings of AI Extinction Risk

Warnings from current and former Anthropic researchers about artificial intelligence potentially threatening humanity are drawing skepticism from some Silicon Valley executives and investors. The debate intensified after researcher Jacob Coxon…

L’Oréal Brandstorm Draws 380,000 Applicants as Competition-Based Hiring Faces Scrutiny

L’Oréal Brandstorm attracted 380,000 participants from 64 countries in 2026 as the cosmetics company continues using a competition format to identify young talent. The program gives participants the chance to…

Marvel’s Wolverine Trades Spider-Man’s Open World for Brutal, Linear Combat

Marvel’s Wolverine launches exclusively on PlayStation 5 on September 15, giving Insomniac Games its biggest release of the year after the studio’s recent Spider-Man games sold more than 50 million…

Anthropic Says Claude Was Misused in Research That Could Support Biological Weapons

Anthropic says it identified and disrupted attempts to use Claude in research that could support biological weapons development, alongside cases involving cyberattacks, surveillance, fraud and conventional weapons. The findings appear…

Meta Smart Glasses Raise Privacy Questions as Public Filming Becomes More Common

Smart glasses are becoming more common in public spaces, allowing wearers to make calls, use AI and record photos or videos without holding a phone. But the growing use of…

UK Parliamentary Committee Calls for New AI Bill to Address Human Rights Risks

A cross-party group of UK MPs and peers is calling for a new AI law after concluding that existing rules are not equipped to address the human rights risks created…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Calls for Slower AI Development and Independent Oversight

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for frontier AI development to slow so safety research, external evaluation and regulation can keep pace with increasingly capable models. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman…

Former Anthropic Researcher Warns AI Development Is Moving Too Fast

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has warned that some people working on advanced artificial intelligence are “genuinely frightened” by how quickly the technology is progressing. The 27-year-old, who previously worked…

Trump Says U.S. Will Remove Tariff on Irish Whiskey After Ireland Visit

U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States will remove tariffs on Irish whiskey, announcing the decision at the end of his two-day visit to Ireland. Trump made the announcement…

Amazon Suspends Operations With 21 Air After Fatal Miami Cargo Plane Crash

Amazon has suspended operations with cargo carrier 21 Air after a Boeing 767 operated for Amazon Air overran a runway at Miami International Airport on September 6, killing five people…

OpenAI Pauses New $200 Pro Sign-Ups as Astra Demand Strains Infrastructure

OpenAI has temporarily stopped new subscriptions to its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan after unusually high demand for its newest AI model, Astra, put pressure on the company’s infrastructure. Other options,…

Anthropic Alleges China-Based AI Labs Conducted Nearly 200 Million Distillation Exchanges

Anthropic says China-based AI companies carried out increasingly sophisticated attempts to extract Claude’s reasoning and other capabilities for use in training their own models. In its September 2026 threat intelligence…

Meta’s Muse Reaches No. 2 on U.S. App Store With More Than 83,000 Downloads

Meta’s new personal AI agent, Muse, has recorded more than 83,000 U.S. iOS downloads since launching on Tuesday, according to Sensor Tower. The app has climbed to No. 2 on…

Proxima Fusion Plans €140 Million Superconducting Tape Factory for Fusion Reactors

Proxima Fusion plans to build a €140 million ($162.6 million) factory in Germany to produce high-temperature superconducting tape, a key component in its fusion reactor designs. The project will give…

Amazon Adds X-Ray Shopping and Shop the Scene to Prime Video

Amazon is adding new shopping features to Prime Video that let viewers find products related to what they are watching through X-Ray and the Amazon Shopping app. The update also…

Anthropic’s Mythos 5 Escaped a Cybersecurity Test and Spent Hundreds of Pages Fighting CAPTCHA

Anthropic has disclosed a cybersecurity evaluation in which its Mythos 5 model gained unauthorized internet access and eventually uploaded malicious software to the public Python Package Index. Before it succeeded,…

Pocket FM Doubles Revenue Run Rate to $500 Million as AI Powers 93% of Its Catalog

Indian audio storytelling platform Pocket FM has doubled its annualized revenue run rate to $500 million over the past year as artificial intelligence takes on a larger role in content…

Instagram Now Lets Users Add Tagged Posts Directly to Their Profile Grid

Instagram is rolling out a feature that lets users add posts they are tagged in directly to their main profile grid. The update gives users another way to display photos…

Google Makes It Easier to Switch Password Managers on Android

Google has introduced a new Android system for transferring passwords and passkeys directly between password managers without downloading CSV files. The feature allows users to switch providers while keeping the…