IPHONE 18 PROApple adds a digital signature to iPhone photos to fight AI manipulation
Apple’s new Reference Image feature uses the iPhone 18 Pro’s sensor to sign every pixel, aiming to prove photos have not been altered by AI.
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Thursday, 10 September 2026
IPHONE 18 PROAI SAFETY RISKAnthropic researcher quits over AI extinction fears
An Anthropic researcher has resigned, warning that self-improving AI poses an existential risk to humanity and calling for industry-wide agreements to slow progress.
FOLDABLE IPHONEApple’s foldable ‘iPhone Duo’ will reportedly start at $2,000
Apple is reportedly launching a foldable iPhone called the iPhone Duo with a starting price of $2,000, according to a Bloomberg report.
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Wednesday, 9 September 2026
Suno v6: New AI Music Model Built with Major Labels
Suno replaces its previous models with a new version trained on licensed music amid ongoing copyright lawsuits.
Shipt adds an AI shopping assistant
Shipt introduces an AI shopping assistant that builds grocery lists based on user prompts.
DUBBING SYNCAmazon Prime Video’s new AI tech matches lips to dubbed audio
Amazon Prime Video is testing an AI tool that aligns dubbed audio with original video footage.
UNION CONTRACTBlizzard Union Wins Contract Covering AI, Layoffs and Remote Work
Nearly 1,900 Blizzard workers ratify a first contract that sets rules for generative AI and job security.
Apple's AirPods 5 get smarter with Siri and noise control
Apple previews the next AirPods generation with enhanced active noise cancellation and Siri integration.
LIVE NFL FEEDGoogle Search Gets a Live NFL Feed
Google Search is adding a new Live Game Feed for NFL matches, featuring AI-powered insights and social commentary.
DISTILLATIONUS Agencies Warn China Is Systematically Extracting Frontier AI Capabilities
US intelligence agencies warn that China is using distillation techniques to reverse-engineer advanced AI models.
Paul Christiano Joins OpenAI Foundation Board
Former alignment researcher Paul Christiano joins OpenAI's governance structure.
How AI wiped out an entire industry in Nairobi
ChatGPT has disrupted a Kenyan business model that wrote academic papers for foreign students.
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Tuesday, 8 September 2026
Fruit Fly Brain Map Goes From Science to Doom
Google has mapped the entire nervous system of an adult male fruit fly, and developers have already used the dataset to train the model to play video games.
Mistral AI bags €3 billion despite lagging rivals
The French startup secures Europe's largest tech funding round at a €21 billion valuation.
QNAP's New Ryzen 7000 NAS Targets AI and Virtualisation Workloads
QNAP launches the TVS-hx77AX series with AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs and native RDMA support for high-performance computing.
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Monday, 7 September 2026
UKRAINE AI SUPPORTOpenAI backs Ukrainian newsrooms with AI tools
OpenAI launches a program with AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA to help Ukrainian news organisations use artificial intelligence.
LUXVISIONAWOL Vision Unveils World’s First 4K 120 Hz Ultra-Short-Throw Projector
AWOL Vision launches the LuxVision, a triple-laser UST projector capable of 6000 lumens and 200-inch screens.
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Sunday, 6 September 2026
WIKI HIJACKOpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’
OpenAI admits its agents hijacked a German wiki site and promises a new framework for reporting such events.
GLOBAL GUARDRAILSOpenAI Chief Scientist Calls for Global AI Guardrails
Jakub Pachocki warns that AI systems are becoming too powerful for individual companies to manage alone.
CODING AGENTSOpenAI reveals how coding agents are speeding up its research
OpenAI shares early data showing how AI coding assistants are changing the pace of its internal experiments.
WINUI 3 AI BUILDERMicrosoft's AI Assistant Builds Native WinUI 3 Apps in Half an Hour
A new workflow lets developers create Windows 11 apps using free tools and a specialised AI agent.
MUSE VOICEMeta's Muse Voice Transcribe: A Real-Time Ear for AI
Meta's new model transcribes speech in 80-millisecond chunks and detects sentence boundaries, aiming to power always-on AI assistants.
LYRIA 3.5Google puts AI music creation on the main menu
Google's Lyria 3.5 model arrives in the Gemini app, promising more expressive vocals and richer arrangements.
LOCAL CLUSTERGEEKOM's A9 Mega Mini PCs Form Local Inference Cluster at IFA 2026
GEEKOM links four A9 Mega units via USB4 to create a desktop-sized local supercomputer.