2026-09-18 刊号

Prepare your iPhone 18 Pro Max to ship ↗

Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions ↗

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI ↗

Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments ↗

AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation ↗

How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip ↗

US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four ↗

The US 'Kill Chain' That Destroyed an Iranian School ↗

新手 AI 创业，网络得咋配，求大神支招！ ↗

Y Combinator's PAC is throwing money at Republicans across the country ↗

War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready? ↗

Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture? ↗

We Must Create the Shit Machine ↗

OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it […]

Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md ↗

Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage ↗

When the FM Band Goes Transatlantic ↗

Automattic names interim CFO after exec departures ↗

Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation ↗

Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue ↗

Hooli billboard off of 101 ↗

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP ↗

How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? ↗

The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security ↗

Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025) ↗

Gov. Newsom signs executive order targeting AI safety 'before it's too late' ↗

Saving another 100TB of RAM ↗

A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers ↗

Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes ↗

Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capital of the world. Executive Order 22 bans executive branch officials from signing nondisclosure agreements […]

Disney’s first CTO is Character.AI’s former CEO

You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time. Today, Disney announced that Karandeep Anand is joining the company as its new CTO. Anand will report directly to recently […]

Anthropic finally adds AGENTS.md support to Claude Code ↗

Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion ↗

iPhone Duo is design nerd catnip ↗

Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters ↗

Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals ↗

Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 ↗

In India, the new iPhone can arrive faster than a pizza ↗

Singapore is paying people to read books – can it fix the reading crisis? ↗

Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households ↗

US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report ↗

Joby Aviation’s 3,100-mile autonomous flight signals its push beyond electric air taxis ↗

A Model for Winning Survivor ↗

Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how? ↗

The real story of the iPhone 18 Pro’s camera

It's one of the most fascinating years in a while when it comes to iPhone camera upgrades. The big story of the iPhone 18 Pro is the variable aperture main lens, which lets you open the aperture up wider for better low light shots and make the aperture smaller for better depth of field in […]

Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Newsom's order directs the state to convene a group of experts that will deliver recommendations within two months on how to […]

There's no point at which turning your brain off will work ↗

Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug ↗

兄弟们，赛博鸡蛋香吗 🧺🥚🥚🥚 ↗

My Thoughts on AI and LLMs ↗

Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops ↗

What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings

As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI's potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what's already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate, and other studios who have started using AI, as well film startups focused on bringing generative AI into the mainstream […]

Systemd is a suite of basic building blocks ↗

申请成功的龟壳可以 DD 重装系统吗？ ↗

We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient ↗

今天新出的挺有意思的 AI 模型： TypeSafe Jev ↗

Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa? ↗

Family offices are clamoring for AI investments ↗

Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago? ↗

Court shines a further light on who was at fault in SVB implosion ↗