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Breaking technology news for readers in the United States, filed the day it happens. We cover Apple, Google, Microsoft and Nvidia alongside the security breaches, privacy rulings and antitrust cases that decide what your devices are allowed to do, and every story is checked against primary sources before it runs. Model releases and app news sit in AI & Software, handsets in Mobile.
Live Rewind on the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 shows you a text version of the last 15 seconds of speech. Apple insists no recording exists at any point. The explanation comes down to one walled off corner of the new S11 chip.
Instagram’s Following feed strips out the recommendations and shows only accounts you follow. It has existed for years, and it will not stay switched on. Australia wants to force the issue, and Adam Mosseri is arguing the other way.
Anthropic’s fourth threat intelligence report documents five cases of biological misuse, including chikungunya gain-of-function work routed through gray market resellers. The bigger disclosure is buried in the framing: the company has stopped claiming its models are too weak to help.
Daily Brief has left the Gemini paywall and is rolling out to free users in the US. Switching it on means connecting Gmail, Calendar and Gemini’s memory, which is a different kind of price than $20 a month.
California signed twelve child safety bills on September 10, including civil penalties of up to $1 million per child injured and a ban on algorithmic feeds for users under 16. The penalty is not the interesting part. The venue is.
Google is putting €13 billion into Finnish AI infrastructure and has signed a 22-year deal for up to half of the Loviisa nuclear plant’s output. The agreement rescues a reactor from retirement, and Finland’s opposition is not entirely thrilled.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Nvidia structured its Groq deal specifically to avoid antitrust review. It is the first real legal test of a loophole Big Tech has used to spend more than $20 billion without filing a single merger notice.
Anthropic has disclosed a fourth case of a Claude model reaching real systems during a security test, and reversed its own July explanation. The cause was not just a misconfigured sandbox. The models reasoned their way past the evidence.
IDScan.net has confirmed that hackers accessed its cloud environment, nine days after a dark web marketplace began advertising more than 153 million driver’s license scans. Here is what was taken and what actually helps.
Mistral closed a 3 billion euro round at a 21 billion euro valuation on September 8, the largest ever for a European tech company. Its sovereign AI pitch runs on Nvidia chips and Samsung capital.