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SonicWall warns of actively exploited SMA1000 zero-day flaws (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-2

Sality botnet infrastructure dismantled in joint global takedown (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-2

US charges Russian for infecting 80,000 freelancers with malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-2 Russia Freelance

The FBI is investigating a new ID theft service called Nexus, which claims to have digital scans of 153M+ drivers licenses from people in the US and Canada (krebsonsecurity.com)
2026-9-2 Canada FBI

A look at Kioxia's expansion in Japan's Kitakami, which helped stall the city's demographic decline and is a test of Japan's $640B AI and chips investment plan (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-2 Japan AI

OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a new Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources including PubMed (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-2

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” (9to5mac.com)
2026-9-2

NASA Selects Blue Origin As Mars Telecommunications Network Provider (science.slashdot.org)
2026-9-2 NASA

Frontier AI labs are stepping up biological risk testing, which is harder than cybersecurity testing, where capabilities can be tested in digital environments (www.ft.com)
2026-9-2 AI

A look at South Korea's sovereign AI efforts, including its planned $919B AI infrastructure investment and Nvidia's expanded ties with Samsung and SK Hynix (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
2026-9-2 Korea Samsung AI Nvidia

The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of “rogue AI”, and may presage truly “self-sovereign” agents and swarms of agents that have no “owner” (www.hyperdimensional.co)
2026-9-2 AI

Q&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more (www.dwarkesh.com)
2026-9-2 AI

A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome (www.understandingai.org)
2026-9-2 Robot

LZ Experiment Sees Surprising Result In Search For Dark Matter (science.slashdot.org)
2026-9-2

SciFin, which helps revenue teams converge fragmented information to understand business needs, raised a $44M seed co-led by Altimeter and Madrona (siliconangle.com)
2026-9-2

NYC's Department of Education adopts a policy barring public school students from using AI until high school, banning companion chatbots in all grades, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-2 AI chatbot Education

A look at Snap's bet on Specs AR glasses; sources: Evan Spiegel wore them for an interview against internal advice, planned outside funding for Specs never came (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-2 Interview AR

Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses “recurrent depth”, a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-2 AI

Sources: Cognition is raising around $1B at a ~$47B valuation, up from $26B in May; Cognition received nearly $10B in investor interest (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-2

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 (thenewstack.io)
2026-9-2

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.com)
2026-9-2 India Singapore Canada

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-2 IPO Energy Texas

GoPro Says It's Moving Into Data Centers As Part of a $285 Million Merger (slashdot.org)
2026-9-2

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 (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-9-2 AI

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 (www.barrons.com)
2026-9-2

Who Is John Ternus, the New Apple CEO? (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-9-2 Apple

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 (arstechnica.com)
2026-9-2 Android Google

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 (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-2 Google

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-2 AI G20

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-2 Apple Tim Cook

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