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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

Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger agreement; the combined company will operate as Cohere and Aleph Alpha co-CEO Ilhan Scheer will become the COO (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-20

Arcee AI, which develops open-weight models in the US, raised a Series B at a $1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least $150M (fortune.com)
2026-9-20 AI

A US judge orders X and SpaceXAI to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple, after OpenAI's request for information on the purported agreement (www.politico.com)
2026-9-20 Apple

DOD CTO Emil Michael says the Trump administration shouldn't nationalize or take stakes in AI companies and signals opposition to regulatory oversight of them (www.cnbc.com)
2026-9-20 Trump AI

Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-20

Delos Data, which develops network chips and software to connect AI chips in a data center, raised $100M from Matrix, Playground, Socratic Partners, and others (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-20 AI

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 (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-20 Google AI

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 (www.axios.com)
2026-9-20

Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, expanded its seed funding by $53M, led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-20 AI

X adds a “Trade” option to its Cashtag feature, letting US users complete trades at brokerages such as Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-20 Coinbase

A 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 (spyglass.org)
2026-9-20 AI

Sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is in talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$20B valuation, up from $7.6B in January, and Paradigm is in talks to lead the round (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 Startup Drone

Sources: a group of 10 banks is giving a $22B loan to Blackstone and Alphabet's cloud venture Crux AI, which aims to provide compute for AI labs, to buy TPUs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 AI Alphabet

OpenAI discloses six new misalignment incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a framework for reporting model misalignment (www.axios.com)
2026-9-20

The US House advances the Ratepayer Protection Act, aimed at preventing 100 MW+ data centers from passing utility costs down to consumers, by a vote of 417-3 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-9-20

Snap introduces Specs Intelligence, an AI assistant designed to work across iPhone, Mac, and its Specs AR glasses, calling it “a new anticipatory AI service” (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-20 iPhone AI Intelligence AR

Snap Specs hands-on: more advanced than Meta's top-end glasses, fully untethered, mostly comfortable, and navigation works well, but its design has compromises (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20

Generac signs a long-term deal to supply Amazon with up to $8B worth of backup generators for data centers and grants Amazon a warrant to buy up to a 2.6% stake (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 Amazon

AWS says it is unable to restore some data stored exclusively in Bahrain data centers and one UAE availability zone, after Iranian drone strikes in the spring (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 Drone Iran

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 Trump AI Elon Musk Zuckerberg

In an unsealed court ruling, a US judge orders Google to make ad tech tools interoperable with rivals, share ad auction data, and appoint an internal monitor (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20 Google

OpenAI says it discovered an unreleased Astra model added an “unrelated persona instruction” during RL training but “did not observe any behavioral differences” (alignment.openai.com)
2026-9-20

How AI startups like Inherent and Recursive Superintelligence are pursuing tools needed for AI systems to achieve recursive self-improvement (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20 Startup AI

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