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  • Meta’s new One subscriptions put a price on social media and AI
    The Verge [ai] - 15:00 Sep 15, 2026
    Shortly after launching its new do-everything AI assistant Muse, Meta's launching subscription bundles that pair its standalone app subscriptions with extra AI usage. Some of the new Meta One bundles were in testing earlier this year, but are now available globally starting today, with several tiers for individual users, creators, and businesses. Meta says the […]
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  • This doorbell camera lets a human security guard watch your front door
    The Verge [ai] - 13:36 Sep 15, 2026
    DIY home security company SimpliSafe is bringing its AI-powered proactive security feature to the front door. The new SimpliSafe Video Doorbell Series 2 launches today for $199.99 and works with the company's Active Guard Outdoor Protection (starting at $49.99 a month). This combines AI analysis with live agents to detect potential threats and respond proactively. […]
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  • Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?
    The Verge [ai] - 22:59 Sep 14, 2026
    When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to "pace the frontier," signing on at least partially to a […]
  • What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development
    The Verge [ai] - 21:21 Sep 14, 2026
    Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out in favor of or opposing his points, and we've compiled some of […]
  • Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage to announce robots won’t take over the world
    The Verge [ai] - 20:03 Sep 14, 2026
    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a call from President Trump on Monday while onstage at the All-In Podcast's All-In Summit. It's not the first time Huang has taken a call from the president during work, but this time he put Trump on speakerphone before a big crowd. During the call, the president launched into his […]
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  • Microsoft says ‘people matter more than AI’ following safety concerns
    The Verge [ai] - 13:00 Sep 14, 2026
    Microsoft is publishing a 37-page "humanist AI code of conduct" today, amid growing safety concerns over AI model progress. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a coordinated slow down of AI development over the weekend, after researchers warned recently that AI model progress could outpace our ability to safely deploy increasingly complex systems and verify […]
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  • Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting
    The Verge [ai] - 19:41 Sep 13, 2026
    Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to "pace the frontier" and slow down AI development. OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet's Demis Hassabis offered tentative support for Amodei's proposal. Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, however, […]
  • OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May
    The Verge [ai] - 21:41 Sep 12, 2026
    In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. Not only that, but the AI tried to steal users' API keys. At the time, RubyGems described it as a […]
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  • Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’
    The Verge [ai] - 21:16 Sep 12, 2026
    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive self-improvement, and the possibility of building an AI that was beyond human control. On the latter, he […]
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  • Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI
    The Verge [ai] - 16:23 Sep 12, 2026
    Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its "adherence to safety practices and commitments." In a winding essay, Amodei proposed a three-step plan to "pace the frontier" - jargon that simply means to slow […]
  • Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute
    The Verge [ai] - 14:41 Sep 12, 2026
    President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data centers, raising health risks for Americans, a cadre of former EPA officials said this week in a briefing and new report. They are urging - perhaps futilely - the president to adopt a "Data Center Health Protection […]
  • OpenAI just wants to win
    The Verge [ai] - 11:00 Sep 12, 2026
    OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics. This week, it claimed one of its biggest prizes yet: a solution to a legendary Millennium Prize problem. In normal circumstances, this would have been celebrated as a historic achievement. Instead, many mathematicians have watched OpenAI's relentless advance with […]
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  • Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
    The Verge [ai] - 20:44 Sep 11, 2026
    New Mexico's Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client's murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for failing to "verify the factual claims and legal […]
  • Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity
    The Verge [ai] - 16:09 Sep 11, 2026
    After admitting earlier this year that its AI models had hacked other companies' systems on a handful of occasions, Anthropic released a new report on Wednesday detailing the attacks. It reveals a string of incidents displaying what Anthropic deems its models' single-minded "recklessness" - and will likely fuel already raging concerns about cybersecurity and AI. […]
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  • Meta says it’s changing AI suggestions after posing invasive personal questions
    The Verge [ai] - 14:25 Sep 11, 2026
    Meta says it's making changes to the prompts suggested by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed it digging for personal information about a woman's young daughters, as reported earlier by Futurism. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby says the company "missed the mark," adding that "the feature never should […]
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  • Slack can now vibe-code interactive charts and reports inside chats
    The Verge [ai] - 21:25 Sep 10, 2026
    A new feature coming to Slack will allow you to build interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presentations, microsites, and other tools directly inside a chat. With Slackforce Surfaces, you can describe to Slackbot what you need, and it will use AI to gather information from relevant conversations and connected apps, like Google Drive or Salesforce, to […]
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  • Schools are catching on to Big Tech’s playbook
    The Verge [ai] - 19:44 Sep 10, 2026
    It's the hot new thing in tech, and it's where all the jobs are. Students who don't learn to use it fall behind. And to help them catch up in time, its creators are graciously providing the resources and curriculum for learning it, often pro bono. That's the narrative AI companies are pitching schools on […]
  • Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs
    The Verge [ai] - 15:38 Sep 10, 2026
    Universal Music Group is launching a new AI-powered platform that will allow users to draw from its catalog of licensed music to create song remixes, mashups, and new takes on tracks, according to an announcement on Thursday. The record label is developing the platform through a multiyear licensing agreement with ElevenLabs, a company that specializes […]
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  • Meta’s Muse AI works and creeps me out
    The Verge [ai] - 15:00 Sep 10, 2026
    Meta has launched its new Muse assistant, marking the company's first real foray into AI-powered productivity tools. The company says its AI agent can "take the busywork off your plate" by helping you with online shopping, emails, trip-planning, and more. I decided to try out the new tool and see how well it performed - […]
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  • Why the current tech backlash feels different
    The Verge [ai] - 14:00 Sep 10, 2026
    This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.  Nick Statt: Hello and welcome to Decoder, Nilay’s show about big ideas and other problems. This is Nick Statt, senior producer. And I’m joined by our brand-new supervising producer, Greg Ott. Greg Ott: Good day, everyone. And Hi, Nilay. Nilay is here too. He is […]

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