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• 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 (Kai Williams/Understanding AI)
• SciFin, which helps revenue teams converge fragmented information to understand business needs, raised a $44M seed co-led by Altimeter and Madrona (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
• 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 (Matthew Haag/New York Times)
• 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 (Wall Street Journal)
• 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 (The Information)
• Sources: Cognition is raising around $1B at a ~$47B valuation, up from $26B in May; Cognition received nearly $10B in investor interest (Bloomberg)
• 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 (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
• 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 (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
• 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)
• 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 (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)
• 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 (Michelle Kim/MIT Technology Review)
• 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 (Mariapaula Gonzalez/Barron's Online)
• 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 (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
• 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 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
• 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 (Erin Woo/Wall Street Journal)

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• Are all TVs at risk from burn-in? Here's how to avoid the problem altogether
• Blue Origin wins NASA contract for telecommunications on Mars
• Android stuck in Safe Mode? Here's how to turn it off
• Lake Ontario is now 'Lake America' on Apple Maps
• How to change the background on iPhone Messages
• Skip the 5K monitor for gaming and go with a 4K instead — here's why
• Meta's new AI transcription model can distinguish between multiple speakers and languages in real-time
• Are expensive HDMI cables worth it?
• The new Street Fighter movie trailer looks fun in all the right ways
• The Sonos Ace Ultra headphones and Beam Ultra soundbar are smarter than I expected
• The TV vs projector value debate isn't close — here's why
• Should you remove the film from your CarPlay infotainment screen? It depends
• A new Android Find Hub feature will help you remember where you put important things
• 'Reasonable' consumers know they don't own digital downloads, Sony says
• What more can you delete from your iPhone to free up space?
• BT's old copper network could be worth over $2 billion
• Razer just released a cute and teensy mobile game controller
• QHD, WQHD, 4K, and 5K resolution: What do they mean and which is best for you?
• Waymo robotaxi rides are now open to the public in Denver, San Diego and Tampa
• What is Dolby Atmos for Headphones and is it worth it for gamers?

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