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• Sources: the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with UK's AISI until US reviews them; Anthropic appears to have agreed (Politico)
• Amazon rolls out multichannel tools in Seller Central, letting US sellers manage eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart sales alongside their Amazon businesses (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
• Google is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini call businesses on behalf of users, initially for Pixel 11 users with a Gemini subscription in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
• New York AG Letitia James sues Polymarket US, alleging that the site is illegally running a gambling operation, as part of NY's crackdown on prediction markets (Kevin T. Dugan/Wall Street Journal)
• At a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China share the "capability and responsibility" to manage AI for good and calls for healthy competition (Financial Times)
• Sources: Gen Digital, created by the 2022 merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast, has made a takeover offer for GoDaddy, which has a market cap of $12.2B (Oliver Barnes/Financial Times)
• Sources: a White House memo paints effective altruism as a fringe, dangerous cult that "built the AI-doom pipeline" and places Dario Amodei at its foundation (Axios)
• OpenAI discovered the Australian breach in August but didn't alert the government until September 10, when it sent an email to a generic disclosure address (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
• Google plans to launch experimental satellite MVP on a SpaceX rocket on October 1, as part of Project Suncatcher; MVP has four TPUs and will operate for a year (New York Times)
• Amazon plans to invest $100M to build a robotics manufacturing facility in Indiana, set to open by 2028; its robots at 300+ facilities help with 75% of orders (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
• Sources: Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic plan to launch an AI safety standards body without government oversight in late 2026 or 2027, and are considering CEOs (The Information)
• Sources: Oracle sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl to delay payments on the 2.45GW Project Jupiter data center in New Mexico if it fails to launch in 2028 (Bloomberg)
• ASML's European revenue share dropped to 0% in Q1 and Q2 2026, down from 1% in 2025 and 5% in 2024; ASML is urging EU authorities to create demand for EU chips (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
• Qualcomm says it has extended its global licensing pact with Apple, starting in April 2027; the partnership has been shaped by an April 2019 settlement (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
• Dallas-based enterprise browser security startup Island raised $400M led by Evolution Equity Partners at a $6.4B valuation and plans to grow its staff to 1,500 (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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• It took MapQuest until 2026 to add public transit directions
• Google Photos' new Redact tool will make it easy to hide sensitive information
• The Pixel Watch 5's blood pressure and insulin resistance trends are rolling out this week
• Copper's latest high-end induction stove brings the heat better than ever
• Pixel 11's Call For Me feature begins preliminary rollout
• Xiaomi's 18 Pro series phones have the latest Snapdragon chip and a Samsung-like privacy screen
• Razer's Kiyo V2 Pro webcam can capture 4K video at 60 fps
• How to get your cut of Apple's $250 million Siri settlement
• Qualcomm's Snapdragon Sound Elite is a new AI chip for audio wearables
• Revolut is piloting facial recognition at store checkouts in the UK
• OpenAI's agent hacked into an Australian government website
• Nikon's new Z5 IIC is a cheaper Z5 II without the electronic viewfinder
• Everything announced at Meta Connect 2026
• Meta put Muse in a Tamagotchi like 'Charm' device
• Meta will stop training its AI on 'visual data' from its smart glasses — if you opt out
• Meta VR Glasses hands-on: Hand and eye tracking is so much better than a controller
• Meta's new holographic avatars are here and they're surprisingly real
• Meta Ray-Ban Display getting feature updates including holographic avatar support
• Meta's $1,300 VR Glasses look like the Vision Pro sequel Apple should be making
• Meta's next smart glasses collab is with Blackpink's Lisa

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