Techmeme

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 (Joann Muller/Axios)
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 (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
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 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
DOD CTO Emil Michael says the Trump administration shouldn't take stakes in AI companies and signals opposition to regulatory oversight of AI companies (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
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 (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)
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 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger agreement; the combined company will operate as Cohere, with Aleph Alpha co-CEO Ilhan Scheer becoming Cohere COO (Leo Marchandon/Reuters)
Noetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)
In an essay, Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic's training of Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control (Ina Fried/Axios)
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 (Globe and Mail)
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 (Financial Times)
OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents with select US advertisers, letting users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
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 (Reuters)
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 (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

Wired

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The Best Movies to Stream This Month (September 2026)
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Apple iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max Review: For Camera Fiends
7 Best Android Phones of 2026, Tested and Reviewed
Introducing the WIRED App
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
The EU Plans to Ban Social Media For Under-13s
Best Robot Vacuum of 2026: Shark, Eufy, Roborock
Self-Driving Cars Might Change Crash Testing Forever
Boox Launches the Palma 3 E-Reader
China Isn’t Buying Silicon Valley’s Call for an AI Slowdown
Why It Seems Like Great White Sharks Are Overrunning Maine
Best 2-in-1 Laptops (2026): Microsoft, Lenovo, and the iPad
Polymarket’s Next Bet? It Can Also Be a Media Company
‘Smart’ Nanoparticles Deliver mRNA Directly to Tumors in New Cancer Therapy
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If the US Collapses Soon, Don’t Blame Emily St. John Mandel
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Engadget

MindsEye developer Build A Rocket Boy is reportedly shutting down
The Boox Note Air6C E Ink tablet flips pages nearly 40 percent faster
Google Home is going agentic via integration with the MCP standard
Anthropic's Claude can now create editable documents for you
Samsung brings One UI 9 to the rest of the Galaxy S26 series
Snap Specs launch 2026: Live updates from CEO Evan Spiegel's keynote
Threads leans even further into podcasts with transcripts, analytics and more
Here's how the iPhone 18 Pro's Apple Reference Image tech works
iPhone 18 Pro review: The standard setter
Breville Eye Q Toaster review: A toaster with a vision
Sony unveils new PlayStation Pulse wireless headsets with 'planar magnetic' sound tech
The new Boox Palma 3 comes with stylus support and an aluminum build
Meta is reportedly gearing up to launch new smart glasses without a camera
Canon's R8 II camera borrowed its styling from a classic SLR film camera
Considering a Level 2 EV charger? How to know if you need one
How to get Spotify's best audio quality
How to manually update Android Auto (and what it might mean if you can't)
Are USB-C flash drives better than USB-A ones?
Microsoft will hold a Windows and Surface event on October 7
Wired vs wireless speakers: What are the pros and cons?

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