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Google has rolled out a DMA mandated redesign of search results across the EU, stripping live hotel and flight prices and calling it the largest quality drop in the company’s 29 year history.
XPeng’s IRON humanoid robot autonomously walked off a Guangzhou production line on September 8, aiming for mass output before Tesla’s delayed Optimus.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic and named Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally, seeking up to $150,000 per song over Claude’s training data.
Florida ordered license plate readers off state highways and Texas froze state funding for them in the same week. Dallas alone is shutting down more than 300 cameras.
John Ternus runs his first keynote as Apple CEO on September 9, and the lineup behind him breaks a pattern that has held since 2011. Here is everything expected, and what the split really means.
Microsoft AI shipped MAI-Transcribe-2 at $0.10 per audio hour, a 72 percent cut, and says it beats OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs on accuracy and speed. The price has an expiry date.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra to a handful of security customers before the subscribers who pay the most. Here is what actually caused the delay, and what the model does.
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 cuts cached token prices by 75% and more than doubles a key agentic research benchmark, as AI labs shift their competition toward the cost of running agents.
Anthropic says Claude autonomously produced the first fully machine-checked proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in Lean, a 13-million-line formalization that took 11 days.
David Friedberg calls college, home ownership and Social Security the three great lies Americans are told about money. We checked each one against the actual numbers.