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The White House has quietly removed Build The Wall, a Tetris clone on its arcade.gov website, after Tetris said it takes "copyright infringement very seriously" (Zack Zwiezen/Kotaku)
OpenAI denies that its researchers or models saw Buckmaster or Alpöge's prompts, says it spent millions in compute after hearing Anthropic had a breakthrough (Wired)
OpenAI says an internal model "significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra" solved the Navier-Stokes problem using 10K concurrent agents working for 88 hours (Madison Mills/Axios)
UK seeks to force Apple and Google to block children from taking, viewing, or sharing nude images on their devices, and praises Apple's age-based restrictions (Jacob Reid/Bloomberg)
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge on Navier-Stokes and used an internal model to solve it (Joseph Howlett/Scientific American)
NextEra Energy, which partnered with Google to revive an Iowa nuclear power plant, gets a $1.9B loan from the Department of Energy to finance the refurbishment (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
Circle agrees to acquire Singapore-based cross-border B2B payments company Tazapay for $400M, in one of its largest publicly disclosed acquisitions to date (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas, a 1PB dataset of predicted molecular effects for all ~9B possible single-letter DNA changes in the human genome (Google)
Celero, which is developing a chip to enable long-distance connections between AI data centers, raised $275M at a $3B+ valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
Runway co-CEO Anastasis Germanidis says the startup's annual recurring revenue hit $200M in September; source: it expects ARR to cross $350M by the end of 2026 (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
Poseidon Aerospace, which plans the first test flight of its pilotless cargo plane by year-end, raised a $60M Series A led by TQ Ventures, after an $11M seed (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
Google Cloud and Accenture form the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group to train up to 1,000 Accenture forward deployed engineers for Gemini Enterprise (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
Researchers say Meta ran 350+ ads with CSAM in 2026 so far; some featured morphed images of real children, and many linked to "nudification" apps from China (Matt Burgess/Wired)
Qualcomm signs a deal with Amazon to provide "multiple generations of customized silicon" to help build AWS' AI infrastructure for inference; QCOM jumps ~5% (Ari Levy/CNBC)
Robinhood adds Crypto.com's yes-or-no contracts to its platform and takes minority stakes in Crypto.com and prediction market company OG, spun out of Crypto.com (Wall Street Journal)

Wired

OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul
Here’s Samsung’s Advice for Apple and Its Upcoming Folding iPhone
Richard Kelly on Donnie Darko at 25: ‘It’s a Miracle That Any Movie Gets Made’
Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids
How NASA Testing Changed US Food Inspection Forever
5 Best Smart Speakers (2026): Alexa, Google, Apple
Insta360 X6 Review (2026): A Great 360 and Action Camera Hybrid
Gen AI Tools Are Now Being Used to Push ‘Slop Jihad’
Le Creuset x Star Trek Collection: Prices, Availability, Release Date
Home Depot Labor Day Sale (2026): BOGO on Best Grills and Tools
Best Tech Labor Day Sales I’d Shop Myself (2026): Vacuums, Headphones, and More
The 57 Best Deals From the REI Labor Day Sale
Two of the Universe's Great Mysteries May Have Their Own Dimension
Astronomers Have Completed the Largest Map of Space. Yes, You Can Play With It
Every Samsung Galaxy Phone Comes With This Unique Add-On
Whispering Complaints Into Your Phone May Be the Future of Customer Feedback
How to Watch the Apple September Event (2026)
What’s the Best Kindle of 2026 (So Far)?
The Best Labor Day Mattress Deals on Beds We’ve Tried in Our Homes
Plastics Companies Are Writing Lesson Plans. What Could Go Wrong?
The Best Laptop Backpacks for Work, Travel, and Everything Between (2026)
Create Custom Windows 11 Notifications to Remind Yourself of Anything
My Brief Summer Fling With Siri AI
These Cyborg Cockroaches Could Save Your Life
Best Water Leak Detectors (2026): Moen, Phyn, TP-Link
Why China Is the Bogeyman Data Center Enthusiasts Just Can't Quit
The Best Gaming Chairs (2026): Are They Worth It?
4 Best Alexa Speakers I’ve Tested (2026)
There May Not Be an iPhone 18 This Year
OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
Scientists Put Caterpillars in an Ultraquiet Chamber to Learn How They Hear Without Ears
The Watch World Went Crazy This Week. Here Are the 10 You Need to See
Marvel Has Assigned 42 Hours of Homework Before ‘Avengers: Doomsday’
Casio ‘CasioNaut’ G-Shock GMC-2500 GAC-2500 Series: Price, Specs, Availability
Tesla’s Cybercab Officially Launches Today. It’s Already Under Investigation
Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive
Japan Is Launching a Probe to Collect the First-Ever Samples From a Martian Moon
The Best Dyson Vacuums (2026) to Buy—and Some to Avoid
The Best Automatic Litter Box of 2026: Petkit and Litter-Robot
How a Secret Orangutan Breeding Program Is Creating a Baby Boom
Measles Outbreaks Are Forcing Parents of Immunocompromised Kids to Make Hard Choices
The 6 Best Monitors That Actually Work Well With Macs
ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years
AI Use in the Job Market Is Creating an Infinite Doom Loop
What the Heck? Another Perfect Geometric Shape Has Been Detected on Saturn
Silicon Valley Is Having a ‘Hot Girl Renaissance’
Mattress Firm Coupons: Save up to $700
Foreo Discount Codes and Deals: Up to 50% Off
Sportsman's Warehouse Promo Code: Save in September 2026
Medicube Coupon Code: 40% Off for September 2026

Engadget

What is the purpose of LiDAR on your iPhone and how do you use it?
How to watch this week's second Nintendo Direct
Chrome will now release updates every two weeks to better tackle security threats
What are the actual differences between cheap and expensive smart TVs?
Apple Watch GPS vs GPS + Cellular: What's the difference?
Nintendo is releasing a 40th anniversary Legend of Zelda Switch 2 on October 29
What is a dual-band router and why is it important for good Wi-Fi?
Why is Apple CarPlay draining your phone battery?
The Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time arrives November 5
Steam Deck vs. Switch 2 — which gaming handheld is more powerful?
How to let Claude send emails for you
What is considered good speed for home internet and how can you test it?
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 review: A classic design in a lighter package
The CarPlay settings you may want to change after setting it up
The best things I saw at IFA 2026
How to right-click on a MacBook
US regulator approves $1.9 billion loan to spin up Iowa's dead nuclear reactor for Google
How to update your GPU drivers in Windows 11
What is the Anker 'smart display charger' and what does that screen even do?
Samsung and TSMC hope AMSL's new machines will help address the chip shortage

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