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A theoretical computer scientist says he has heard rumors that AI labs are sitting on major math solutions after a hostile response to the Navier-Stokes proof (scottaaronson.blog)
2026-9-20 AI Mathematics

Sources: SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to make memory chips in the US for the first time, but a deal could face opposition from Seoul; both stocks jump 4% (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-20 Intel

SK Hynix strikes an agreement with its union to pay out half of all profit-sharing bonuses in cash, replacing its previously proposed 40-60 cash-stock split (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20

Sources: Shanghai-based Anew Labs, a ByteDance spinoff that uses AI for drug discovery, raised $290M from HSG, IDG Capital, and others at a $1.5B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-20 AI Shanghai IDG

A viral social media post by a Chinese math teacher resurfaces a debate over making English optional in schools across China, as AI translation tools improve (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20 China AI Mathematics

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveils the EU Kids Act during her SOTU address, proposing banning social media for under-13s across the EU (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20 Europe

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calls AI “the second tipping point of our times”, alongside climate change, and says its risks must be “addressed” (www.ft.com)
2026-9-20 AI Climate

Sources: Anthropic has signed its first Australian data center lease, for a planned 2.16 GW campus located ~150 miles from Brisbane, set to come online in 2027 (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-20 Australia Brisbane

Mozilla partners with Mistral to power its AI browsing assistant Firefox Smart Window in the US, Canada, and France, with UK and Germany rollouts later in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 Germany France AI Firefox Canada Mozilla

The Trump administration has few good options to slow China's AI rise, especially while trying to avoid more rare earth restrictions, ahead of US-China AI talks (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 Trump China AI

Survey: 42% of US voters trust the GOP and 40% trust Democrats to handle AI, 61% oppose new data center construction, and <1% say AI is their top midterm issue (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20 AI Democrat Republican

Researchers: rogue OpenAI agents compromised two Hugging Face accounts as early as May 13 to probe the site's servers, nearly two months before the July breach (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-20

Internal docs: Chinese hacker-for-hire company ZRON sells stolen foreign intelligence and uses AI systems to make the government data more digestible for police (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 China AI Hacker Intelligence

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming overtakes India's Gautam Adani to become Asia's richest person for the first time, passing $105B, up 8x from $13B in March 2019 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 India Asia

Apple publishes a technical breakdown of the architecture for the iPhone 18 Pro's Reference Image camera mode; the chain of trust begins during manufacturing (9to5mac.com)
2026-9-20 iPhone Apple Manufacturing

Prediction markets are expanding into mainstream media, via partnerships with Dow Jones, Substack, CNN, CNBC, Fox, and more, as they become information channels (www.wired.com)
2026-9-20 Dow Jones

iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max review: manual camera exposure controls and image quality improvements, but $100 more than the 17 Pro and expensive storage tiers (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-20 iPhone

Hacker collective stegan0gram dismantles a Flock camera, recovering an encryption key and showing it runs ~20 apps on a midrange smartphone-grade processor (www.404media.co)
2026-9-20 Hacker

Billionaire-backed AI safety activists have expanded their Capitol Hill lobbying in the past year, with groups like ControlAI conducting hundreds of meetings (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-9-20 AI

A profile of Meta Compute co-lead Dina Powell McCormick, who is using her network to help structure major AI financing, as Mark Zuckerberg focuses on product (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 AI Zuckerberg

Modular data center startup Rune raised a $40M Series A led by Spark Capital to deploy off-grid compute capacity at solar farm and other renewable energy sites (www.fastcompany.com)
2026-9-20 Energy Startup Solar Renewable

Sources: Apple is developing AI servers that could use M8 Ultra chips connected via Nvidia's NVLink Fusion, with plans to sell them to developers and others (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-20 AI Apple Nvidia

Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic staff felt blindsided by Dario Amodei's and Sam Altman's calls to slow the frontier; some fear evaluators may compromise security (www.ft.com)
2026-9-20

The iPhone Duo's squat, tablet-like outer display is a compromise, and a book-shaped foldable may lack broad appeal; its right-side UI bias is akin to a book's (daringfireball.net)
2026-9-20 iPhone

Amazon says it is raising its minimum hourly pay for eligible full-time US operations workers by $1, taking it to $20 per hour, and gives them new banking tools (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-20 Amazon

OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents with select US advertisers, letting users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-20

Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and opens the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI (www.ft.com)
2026-9-20 Google AI

Montreal-based LawZero, a non-profit founded by Yoshua Bengio to develop safe AI systems, says Canada and Germany are providing up to $300M in grant funding (www.theglobeandmail.com)
2026-9-20 Germany AI Canada

Essay: Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic training Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control (www.axios.com)
2026-9-20 Microsoft AI

Noetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 AI

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