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Comprehensive cross-platform coverage of the U.S. market close on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, and YouTube with Romaine Bostick, Jess Menton, Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Credit: NASA The Republic of Albania will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 12 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 21, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, becoming the 73rd country signatory. NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson will host Albania’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Ferit Hoxha and Ambassador of the Republic of Albania to the United States Ervin Bushati for the ceremony,... View Source

Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller discusses the AI infrastructure company's nearly $4 billion in fresh funding sending its valuation to almost $31 billion. He also discusses how it will fuel the company’s push to build AI infrastructure spanning data centers, cloud computing and managed AI services. He says Crusoe could eventually enter the public markets and pushes back against growing opposition to da... View Source

The main criteria are how big your yard is and the amount of leaf cover... View Source

The first junk-bond offering for a data center tied to Meta Platforms Inc. attracted demand more than four times the deal’s size, with juicy yields helping to lure investors... View Source

Yesterday, Futurism published a months-long investigation into a little-known company called Brown Brothers Media — a sprawling media empire that buys struggling news publications and turns them into AI-powered content mills, while engaging in deeply dishonest practices including the widespread use of fake writers and the mass publishing of fabricated reporting and first-hand accounts. BBM was fou... View Source

 Nvidia, Google and Emerald AI have launched the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), a coalition that dynamically manages the electricity use of data centers in response to grid conditions. Varun Sivaram Founder and CEO of Emerald AI joins to discuss the alliance. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

5 min read NASA-JAXA XRISM Mission Sees Pulsar Gathering Companion’s ‘Wind’ Using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory, astronomers have directly observed a giant star’s outflow, called a stellar wind, being captured by its compact companion and providing the power source for strong X-ray flares. The research is part of NASA’s exploration of the extrem... View Source

The mutated Marburg strain that killed Soviet scientist Dr. Nikolai Ustinov was dried into powder—but never destroyed... View Source

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 appointed CEO Josh D'Amaro, and he will head up the company's infrastructure... View Source

Amsted Industries is exploring a sale of cooling system provider Baltimore Aircoil Co., as strong demand for data center components pushes more owners to test the market, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Your go-to list for the guy who has—or says he has—everything... View Source

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) 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 non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) for data center projects, requires expedi... View Source

Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities are horrifying for anybody, embodied by deplorable living conditions, torturous treatment, and a sickening lack of quality healthcare. Unfortunately, a record number of pregnant women have been swept up and sent to such facilities — and it’s hard to imagine a worse place to be during the prenatal period. Horrifying new reporting by the Guardian took a... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with David Gura on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Tech stocks pare morning gains as the sector’s recovery from a rocky week loses steam, while the S&P 500 turns lower and Brent crude extends its decline. Plus, China tariffs reportedly on hold ahead of the Trump-Xi summit, a changing of the guard at Berkshire, PwC CEO Paul Griggs on AI reshaping jobs, Mbappé’s... View Source

These small gifts keep practicality and function at the fore... View Source

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 strengthen AI safety measures in state law. Newsom wants the group to... View Source

Walt Disney Co. named Karandeep Anand to the newly created role of chief technology officer for the entertainment giant... View Source

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 group photos. But all I can get anyone to talk about is the software upgrades: it turns out, they're a lot mor... View Source

For as long as we can remember, Meta has been the tip of the surveillance state spear. The company has amassed an unprecedented amount of intimate data about billions of people — and treated that invasive information with a well-documented level of carelessness. One of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s most beloved pet projects, the company’s camera-adorned and AI Glasses, has brought the company’s shoddy tre... View Source

Fire crews are responding to a blaze Friday at Vistra Corp.’s damaged battery storage facility in California... View Source

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 to ask for their reaction to the recent warnings... View Source

Electra Therapeutics Inc., a clinical-stage developer of immunology drugs, opened at its IPO price on Friday after raising $350 million in an upsized US offering... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft launches NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station on March 14, 2025.NASA/Aubrey Gemignani To continue regular crew transportation to the International Space Station, NASA has awarded SpaceX three additional missions through a contract modification. As part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capabi... View Source

FunnyPlaying, a Chinese company known for its Game Boy and GBA upgrade kits, has announced a new handheld that plays original Nintendo cartridges and ROMs. The FPGB Mini's cartridge support is limited to the Game Boy and Game Boy Color so it isn't as capable as the Analogue Pocket that's also compatible with the GBA and Sega Game Gear. What still makes the FPGB Mini a tempting alternative is its e... View Source

AI hardware continued to drive August’s increase in import prices, as it has throughout the year. Commodity-price volatility from the Iran war raised the cost of industrial materials at the border. Companies face higher input costs and rising expenses tied to the AI buildout. Torsten Slok, Chief Economist at Apollo Global Management, discusses the Fed's rate decision and role AI investment has pla... View Source

UC Berkeley/Alan Toth UC Berkeley engineers and managers watch as the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) detector assembly is slowly raised from a table in this July 8, 2026, image. The four pieces of silver material on the top of the detector box cover the flex circuits, which carry signals from the detectors to the readout electronics. COSI is a wide-field gamma-ray telescope that will study... View Source

A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, the Wall Street Journal reports. They were able to access OpenAI's GitHub repository, called "Monorepo," which reportedly contains "OpenAI's algorithmic secrets," according to the Wall Street Journal's sources. They sto... View Source

The majority of Americans are harboring some apocalyptic fears about AI. According to a new Politico poll that surveyed over 2,000 adults, about two thirds of the American public believes there’s now at least a “moderate” chance that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Intriguingly, the prevalence of this view extends across political lines, with only slight variation. Americans who voted for Kama... View Source

California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday pushing to implement guardrails on artificial intelligence in the state that’s the epicenter of the technology’s boom... View Source

It’s powerful, easy to control, and noticeably less cumbersome than many heavy-duty blowers... View Source

The FCC has announced it's waiving its rules limiting foreign equity ownership to 25 percent in the Paramount-Warner Bros. case and will allow three sovereign wealth funds run by the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi to own 49.5 percent of the company. During Brendan Carr's tenure, the FCC has repeatedly threatened ABC, tried to block stations from airing interviews with Democrats,... View Source

Yahoo Finance has ended a partnership with Polymarket in which the financial news platform used Polymarket data to create a prediction market hub on its website... View Source

Anyone shopping for a Windows laptop with a $1K budget should head to Best Buy, where for the rest of the day you can get a great deal on a capable Lenovo laptop. The Yoga Slim 7X is a slim 14-inch machine with a 2K 16:10 OLED touchscreen, Snapdragon’s high-end X2 Elite processor with 12 cores, plus 16GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD. The specs are about the best you can get these days for $1,000, as... View Source

The cops who’re using Flock cameras to supposedly track down criminals and stalk their ex-girlfriends alike are quite literally laughing in our faces as they tap into the all-seeing surveillance panopticon. According to a new investigation by the Electric Frontier Foundation, a not insignificant number of police officers are submitting nonsense, joke reasons to officially justify the searches they... View Source

The makers of the hit game talk about its relatively smooth development... View Source

A liquefied natural gas tanker bringing fuel from the US to Europe suffered a systems failure that the crew reported as a suspected cyber attack, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

3 min read NASA’s Hubble Spots an Out-of-Sync Galaxy The spiral galaxy NGC 4698 shines in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, the MAUVE-HST Team Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret. This galaxy is NGC 4698, and it lies about 55 million light-years away in the... View Source

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is a global necessity, bringing heat, carbon, and nutrients from the tropics to the Arctic Circle... View Source

Waymo called the cops on two youths in San Francisco after catching them handling an assault rifle while in the back of one of its robotaxis, according to local reports. Both passengers, a boy and a girl, have been arrested. On the morning of September 4, Waymo intervened and pulled over a vehicle after detecting a “violation of our terms of service involving a firearm,” a company spokesperson tol... View Source

EQT Infrastructure is backing a $2 billion small-battery investment to slash power costs for industrial consumers and help data centers get connected faster to the largest US electricity grid... View Source

These genetic variants aren’t a crystal ball, but they can predict personality traits and potential life outcomes... View Source

Brookfield Corp. Chief Executive Officer Bruce Flatt said the artificial-intelligence race is already slowing because developers can’t build enough infrastructure to keep pace with what AI companies are demanding... View Source

A recent explosion of AI swarm attacks offers a startling glimpse into a world where AI runs amok. ... View Source

The ongoing formation of the Apennine mountain range has been a mystery for years, but scientists are starting to piece together its surprising geology. ... View Source

Welcome to Edition 9.11 of the Rocket Report! The most interesting story of the week, in our view, is a deep dive by Stephen Clark linked below into the dwindling fortunes of United Launch Alliance. As recently as a decade ago the launch company co-owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin could claim dominance over the US industry. But those glory days are fading fast. So what's next for a company that... View Source

The rhetoric focused on the technology’s existential threat overshadows more correctable issues... View Source

On the morning of June 9th, Laura Lin was working from her home in Lanesville, a rural southern Indiana town about 15 miles from the Kentucky border. She was on a Zoom call, unaware that the heavy rain outside was beginning to flood her yard. "I look over to where the barn is over there, and I see pieces of my wood floating, and I was like, 'What?' And I immediately was like, 'I have to go.' Close... View Source

David Baker spoke with WIRED en Español about where biological design is headed next and the great potential and risks of taking biology outside the bounds of the natural world... View Source

The two countries don’t even agree on AI’s biggest threats... View Source

Heat records are being shattered thanks to a boost from the natural climate pattern—and burning fossil fuels, of course... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. secured an additional $450 million to increase the size of an existing credit line to $6.5 billion, people familiar with the matter said, giving the Japanese conglomerate more financial flexibility as it expands investments in artificial intelligence... View Source

Of all the threats presented by uncontrollable artificial intelligence, scientists say death by plague ranks low... View Source

Software stocks were basically left for dead earlier this year as investors bet that the business was doomed by the emergence of artificial intelligence. But it turns out that imminent demise was greatly exaggerated... View Source

Sherry Paul, managing director and private wealth advisor at Morgan Stanley, says companies that fail to embrace AI risk being overtaken by competitors that use the technology to boost productivity and profitability. “We move into what I call the corporate extinction event,” Paul says on “Bloomberg Surveillance,” comparing the disruption to Netflix overtaking Blockbuster. This interview aired Sept... View Source

A global agency for artificial intelligence would be a positive thing, Irish Finance Minister Simon Harris said... View Source

Huawei is accelerating the debut of its next-generation AI chip by several months, aiming to replace Nvidia in China and compete on the global stage. The Ascend 960DT chip will now be launched in the first quarter of 2027. Another variant of the new series, dubbed 960PR, will be delivered in the third quarter. Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. has increased its margin loan backed by shares of its chip unit Arm Holdings Plc by $5 billion to $25 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, as the conglomerate finds ways to fund its expanding investments in artificial intelligence... View Source

The global debate over artificial intelligence risks entered a new phase this week amid clashing views from tech executives over whether frontier labs should slow the development of the technology. Leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX and Google DeepMind put forward the need for self-regulation checks on growth that give AI models more control. Meanwhile, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta said they're de... View Source

The company behind GCash, the biggest mobile wallet app in the Philippines, received approval from the country’s stock exchange operator of an initial public offering of as much as 92.3 billion pesos ($1.47 billion), clearing the final regulatory hurdle for a record debut... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 18 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy Explanation: The small, northe... View Source

Shares of Chinese robotics‑component suppliers climbed after a local report said Tesla Inc. teams had arrived in the country to audit suppliers and place additional orders to boost production of its Optimus humanoid model... View Source

Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng said warnings about existential AI risks from researchers at top model makers are “science fiction” that may be detrimental to ensuring the technology’s maximum benefits to society... View Source

Waymo plans to offer its robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028, the latest in a string of domestic and international expansions by the Alphabet Inc. unit... View Source

Waymo Ojai fully autonomous ride-hailing vehicle travels along a city street, San Francisco, California, August 20, 2026. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) | Gado via Getty Images Waymo says it will launch a robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028, as the Alphabet-owned company continues to eye overseas markets for expansion. Waymo's vehicles will begin arriving in Singapore in "the comi... View Source

India’s top state-run infrastructure financier has sanctioned loans upwards of 30 billion rupees ($313 million) each to at least four data centers, reflecting the nation’s push to participate in the artificial intelligence buildout... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. said artificial intelligence models should be released only after rigorous testing, weighing in on the debate about the pace of AI development after top labs called for a slowdown following safety lapses... View Source

Artificial intelligence, a lingering trade war and the yuan will likely dominate the agenda of the upcoming US-China summit, with focus on whether the two nations can reach concessions or put guardrails around key areas of competition, analysts say... View Source

Palantir Technologies Inc. has hired Tom Watson, a former Labour deputy leader, as a new executive in the UK, where it faces a barrage of criticism threatening a major contract... View Source

Widely seen as the architect of the instant delivery model in India, Deepinder Goyal stays confident that the platforms he has built up under Eternal, such as Zomato and Blinkit, can harness AI for their customers better than general AI models can. As Goyal steps away from day-to-day operations of the company he has built, Bloomberg’s Haslinda Amin speaks with him in an exclusive interview from hi... View Source

The man who transformed how urban India eats, dines, and shops, Deepinder Goyal built his food delivery startup Zomato into one of the country’s biggest consumer technology companies, Eternal. At the height of its success, Goyal stepped away from the day-to-day running of the company he built, to turn his attention to a very different set of challenges with a much longer horizon. In an exclusive i... View Source

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro called for tougher safeguards around artificial intelligence Thursday, wading into a growing debate over the risks of the rapidly advancing technology while arguing the US can continue to reap its economic benefits... View Source

Everyone compares Tesla Optimus with Figure and other humanoid robots: better hands, better walking, better demonstrations. But what happens when the factory or the world is changed so the robot can succeed ? Tesla’s advantages go far beyond Optimus itself. It can develop the robot, redesign its workplaces, and improve both together. This changes how ... Read more... View Source

Full-size hand tools and zero filler define our Best Overall home tool set... View Source

The Close brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are UBS US Rates Strategy Head Phoebe White, Cboe Global Markets VP, Head of Derivatives Market Intelligence Mandy Xu, Musician & FYI.AI Founder & CEO will.i.am, BNY Investments Chief Economist Vincent Reinhart, Charles Schwab Chief... View Source

More than a quarter of Anthropic PBC’s research and development work for artificial intelligence is driven by its Claude chatbot, according to the company, providing the clearest indication yet that AI can help speed up development of future models... View Source

Some women may have an extra color receptor. Whether they can actually use it is a far more complicated question... View Source

The threat of perjury has a funny way of forcing people to say the quiet parts out loud. As a recently unsealed and unredacted motion in the ongoing legal battle between the New York Times and OpenAI and Microsoft shows, top AI executives have admitted that training AI models required “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” In the motion filed on behalf of the NYT, flagged by digital... View Source

Michael Kliger, CEO of LuxExperience, said the luxury market is becoming increasingly polarized, with affluent customers continuing to spend heavily while middle-class shoppers pull back under inflationary pressure. He said the company is less concerned about total active customers, which are around 900,000, than about growing the small group of top customers that generate a disproportionate share... View Source

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has held internal discussions about buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups, according to people familiar with the matter. That data could help improve its artificial intelligence models. Ed Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Credit: NASA NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s StarBurst mission, a small satellite designed to investigate neutron star mergers and the origins of short gamma-ray bursts. StarBurst will launch aboard a Bandwagon rideshare mission on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida no earlier than 2028. The selection... View Source

It’s always a good idea to carefully consider the company you keep — especially if you happen to work for one of Elon Musk’s massive companies. According to local channel FOX7, SpaceX manager Kyle Gonzalez has been arrested over the alleged stabbing of a Tesla contractor during a team-building exercise gone horribly wrong. During the night out with a group of co-workers and friends, Gonzalez repor... View Source

United Nations General Assembly president Khalilur Rahman speaks with Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick. This week United Nations Secretary General said nations must coordinate global efforts to regulate AI, echoing calls for closer monitoring of the technology after warnings from leaders of the world’s top firms. The comments come days before world leaders descend on New York for the UNGA’s annual high... View Source

Grammy-Award winning artist will.i.am sits down with Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick from Dreamforce to discuss his efforts to develop personal AI agents for college students, and the fundraising efforts around his company, FYI.AI (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Does that mean your consciousness extends across the multiverse?... View Source

In Austin, a man’s attempt to be chauffeured out of his hotel in style was foiled when his confused ride couldn’t even pull out of the building. His ride, of course, was a Tesla Cybercab — Elon Musk’s self-driving, steer-wheeling free robotaxi. “The Robotaxi arrived… and then couldn’t get out of the hotel parking lot,” the man, who claims to be a computer engineer, wrote on X, posting brief footag... View Source

Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp said developers of artificial-intelligence systems need to be held liable for their own work as opposed to depending on government regulation... View Source

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are publicly suggesting it’s time to pump the brakes and “pace the frontier” of bleeding-edge AI development. Their motivations... View Source

After only a few months on the market, Meta’s new AI-integrated smart glasses are already being exploited for nefarious purposes. Dubbed “pervert glasses” for their incognito ability to film anybody in public, the new specs have enabled voyeurs and content creeps the world over, leading to widespread harassment, bullying, and privacy violations. And now the pervert glasses are also feeding another... View Source

New ventures involving ‘Giggly Squad,’ NPR, Steven Bartlett and Serial Productions have set the podcasting world atwitter... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches on May 15, 2026, carrying about 6,500 pounds of science, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station during the company’s 34th commercial resupply mission for NASA.Credit: NASA Media accreditation is open for the next cargo launch that will deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. The 35th Spac... View Source

Two oval brooches and preserved pieces of thread will undergo further study to give experts some insight into the Viking age... View Source

The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage groups of AI agents, each project has "threads" running different tasks in parallel, with a "coordinator" directing everything: Under the hood, each thread is a Claude Code cloud sessio... View Source

Some experts worry that heated rhetoric makes it hard to hold companies accountable, and sets back attempts to deal with environmental impact and job loss... View Source

Summer is winding down, but portable air conditioners are a smart investment long after the last heat wave... View Source

Earlier this year, a group of rogue OpenAI models managed to break out of containment to hack the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face. The company’s “extensive investigation” detailed how the models exchanged messages and cheered each other on as they stole credentials to infiltrate a third party, actions that could easily have real repercussions for a human hacker. New details keep tr... View Source

As the global AI debate heats up, another major AI-related discussion is roiling the US tech capital: Who is reaping the financial benefits of the AI boom, and who is missing out? As the coming IPOs of Anthropic and OpenAI are set to bring wealth to San Francisco, a recent gathering of laid-off workers highlight the flip side of the AI boom. Bloomberg's California reporter Francesca Maglione joins... View Source

Spread the holiday spirit for a special man you know... View Source

Venezuela began lifting years-long blocks on news websites, but some remain dark... View Source

The refurbished Apple TV 4K with its voice remote. | Image: The Verge Most hardware prices have soared in 2026, and that includes a variety of Apple laptops, tablets, and smart devices. Thankfully, you can offset some of the increased costs on an Apple TV 4K by buying one refurbished through the company. The 64GB model is selling for $169, $30 lower than the new retail price. The upgraded model, w... View Source

As the USA’s war with Iran shows no signs of letting up, strikes on data centers are putting not just human lives in peril, but even customer data. According to a September 15 Amazon Web Services update, Iranian drone strikes left some of the tech giant’s data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in tatters. The company admitted that it was “unable to restore access to the resources and... View Source

In the last few weeks AI Leaders have urged a slow down in the rapid advancement of AI, while President Trump rebuffs these concerns. Danish Nagda, Founder and CEO at Rezilient Health joins to discuss the future of AI as well as Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to the White House. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Deep inside your cells, microscopic structures could be hiding one of humanity’s greatest secrets: the source of your consciousness... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation.  It should come as no surprise that Mustafa has strong opinions on how AI should be built and regulated. Microsoft just published a 37-page statement called the “Humanist AI Code of Conduct,” which lays out the comp... View Source

The specter of an omnipotent large language model that rules over its AI engineers continues to loom large. The industry already has had its fair share of brushes with ominously cult-like behavior, from OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever commissioning wooden effigies to represent “unaligned” AIs to a murder sect that wanted to save the world from killer AI. As it turns out, Dario Amodei’s Anthropic i... View Source

The Trump administration is considering whether to update interagency antitrust guidance on cybersecurity to address a new wave of threats posed by artificial intelligence, according to Associate US Attorney General Stanley Woodward... View Source

The compact and affordable air purifier keeps it simple and stays hidden... View Source

When Xbox announced a new feature last month that lets you digitize existing physical game collections, I immediately thought of the Xbox One. Disc-to-digital seems like a clever new feature for Xbox, perfectly timed as a response to Sony killing PlayStation discs. But the reality is that it has been 15 years in the making and is now a big part of Xbox's ongoing game preservation efforts. Ahead of... View Source

If you ever feel like spilling your guts to ChatGPT, just know that you may have an audience. 404 Media reports that OpenAI is hiring hundreds of employees to sift through and read users’ prompts — including messages that contain sensitive personal information. This isn’t part of a moderation effort. Instead, by reviewing the prompts, OpenAI hopes to improve the responses that ChatGPT gives. The c... View Source

Can technology leaders keep AI under control? King Charles asked industry heads including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis at his Scotland Summit, Shona Ghosh reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The rollout ceremony for NASA’s first space shuttle, OV-101, coincided with Constitution Day of the nation’s bicentennial on Sept.17, 1976. Although the orbiter was originally planned to be named Constitution, Star Trek fans successfully convinced President Gerald Ford to name it Enterprise after the series’ fictional starship. NASA Fifty years ago, on Sept. 17, 1976—Constitution Day of America’s... View Source

Camp Snap is expanding its small collection of screenless digital point-and-shoot cameras with the new pocket-friendly 110D featuring a thin horizontal design first popularized by Kodak film cameras in the 1970s. The Camp Snap 110D is available for preorder starting today for $74.95 in back in black (black and gray) or dreamsicle (white and orange) color options with matching accessories. The Camp... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang expects to sell twice as many chips in the coming year, fueled by the spread of artificial intelligence across different industries... View Source

In early September, two teenagers got into a Waymo, but then ended up in the back of a police car. The robotaxi company said it detected "a violation of our terms of service involving a firearm," pulled the car over, and alerted emergency services, according to the Los Angeles Times. Police arrested the passengers after allegedly finding a loaded AR-style "ghost gun" in the vehicle. The arrests ex... View Source

As it contemplates a future without access to SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, NASA will make some key moves to ensure that Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, which has a decidedly checkered record in spaceflight to date, is safer and can continue flying after its Atlas V rocket retires. Multiple sources confirmed to Ars that as early as next week, NASA will announce that it will order two additional... View Source

CoreWeave is raising funds through a $3 billion convertible bond issue and a vehicle for potential share sales. Ed Ludlow has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

In 34 of the 37 surveyed countries, people are more likely to believe AI will lead to job losses over the next 20 years. | Image: Pew Pew Research has published a new global survey that sheds light on how people view AI, including its impact on jobs, life in general, and income inequality. The survey questioned 42,151 people across 37 countries from February 8th to May 13th - well ahead of recent... View Source

In September 2024, an entrepreneur named Justin Brown uploaded a YouTube video in which he argued that writers should be “scared right now” about the rise of AI. “I think that one of the big dangers is that AI is going to take many people’s jobs,” Brown muses to the camera as he hikes through a national park in Australia. “This includes writers, by the way.” What Justin didn’t mention in the video... View Source

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang comments on the sidelines of an event hosted by King Charles III in Scotland about concerns surrounding the mounting risks of artificial intelligence. "You have rigorous testing systems, the testing lab should be contained, and products should not be released to the public until it's ready to be used by the public," Huang says. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The interface of the Nova plugin for browsing and loading Nova plugins inside your DAW. | Screenshot: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge Lunacy, purveyor of fine VST plugins like Cube, a synth that you control by moving a ball around a 3D space, has just launched Nova, a platform where creators can build custom music tools using AI and sell them to others. At first, there will be a handful of instrument... View Source

India has received investment pledges of as much as $12 billion from global and local investors within months of launching it’s new semiconductor policy, marking an acceleration in its efforts to become a chip-making nation... View Source

They weigh just grams—yet they show that modern humans reached Eurasia 35,000 years earlier than previously thought... View Source

Bose announced a new version of its Ultra Open Earbuds that helped kick off the industry trend of clip-on wireless earbuds nearly two-and-a-half years ago. The new Ultra Open Earbuds (2nd Gen) feature a subtle redesign with improved performance in both sound quality and battery life. They're also joined by a new cheaper alternative called the Bose Sport Open Earbuds designed to provide a more secu... View Source

Clara Wu Tsai is one of the most influential sports owners and philanthropists today. In 2019, she and her husband, Joe Tsai, bought the New York Liberty, where she helped transform the franchise into a WNBA championship team by investing in players, facilities, management and the fan experience. Wu Tsai, who also co-owns the Brooklyn Nets, explains why sports have become a legitimate asset class... View Source

Chemical traces left in bizarre tooth patterns reveal a psychoactive nut used as a prehistoric painkiller... View Source

Getting added to Spotify's Fresh Finds playlists can be a huge break for artists trying to cut through the noise on streaming. Now Spotify is launching a program called Fresh Finds Forward, which aims to give artists the tools to capitalize on that exposure. Artists added to any Fresh Finds playlist after January 1st, 2026, can join the program and get 12 months of additional resources, the most e... View Source

The European Space Agency chose a consortium led by Finnish satellite maker Iceye Oy to conduct a study for the design of a sovereign earth observation service for Europe... View Source

A film crew’s training dig turned up a 19th-century cuirass buried where WWII looters dumped a palace’s treasures... View Source

After teasing a music-related reveal a few days ago, Rockstar has officially announced the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto VI. Called Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, the soundtrack will feature 34 songs, which Rockstar describes as "brand-new, original tracks." Based on the first six singles, which are available today, it seems that the collection will span a pretty wide range of genres, with ever... View Source

The enormous wealth generated by Anthropic and OpenAI is overshadowing layoffs and an uncertain job market in the city... View Source

Legal texts expose the secret logistics behind the animal hunts that Romans loved... View Source

This time, heart rate monitoring is truly continuous. You wouldn't know that the Apple Watch Series 12 is a big deal just by looking at it. It has the same design, buttons, sizes, and sensor types as generations of Apple Watches before it. But under the hood, the Series 12 builds in major changes that lay the groundwork for big ideas about the future of health and wearables. These ideas - and this... View Source

CoreWeave Inc., a provider of computing that powers artificial intelligence systems, kicked off a fresh round of fundraising that includes a $3 billion convertible bond issue and a vehicle for potential share sales... View Source

On a sunny July day in Berkeley, California, the country's top AI safety researchers gathered on an unmarked floor of an unmarked building. They had come together for a "war room" to dissect the high-profile cybersecurity incident that had rocked the AI industry hours earlier. An unreleased OpenAI model had gone rogue, executing a stunningly sophisticated three-part plan. It broke out of its holdi... View Source

As the need for safety and restraint rises, Europe could help lead the way... View Source

The Ozempic maker sees a need for speed when it comes to AI... View Source

Europe’s new technology fund is in talks to invest in UK-based artificial intelligence startup ElevenLabs Inc., people with knowledge of the matter said... View Source

Astronomers have discovered the youngest exoplanet on record, and they spotted the "newborn" world hiding in old data archives. About as massive as Jupiter, the newly-discovered exoplanet Elias 2-24 b is one big baby — despite its hefty size, Elias 2-24 b is by far the youngest planet ever found, thought to be less than a million years old. In fact, the exoplanet (or, planet outside of our solar s... View Source

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a charm offensive for global investors at India’s top chip-industry event, drawing pledges from US firms Applied Materials Inc. and Lam Research Corp. for billions of dollars in outlays... View Source

The Defense Department issued a legal waiver authorizing current and former personnel to share unidentified anomalous phenomena–related classified information, but it doesn’t extend to other agencies... View Source

A UK artificial intelligence startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers is in talks to raise $700 million in a seed round, in the latest example of investors backing alumni of notable AI labs... View Source

The astronomical bodies fire off powerful jets in two distinct phases in their feeding cycle, researchers discoverScientists have solved the mystery of when black holes “burp” – when the astronomical bodies launch jets after feeding on stars, blasting material enormous distances in space.Black holes are objects so densely compact that beyond a certain point their gravity is too strong for light an... View Source

Twitch Chief Executive Officer Dan Clancy said Grand Theft Auto VI will likely face little serious competition for gamer attention this holiday season, and he sees that as the correct strategy... View Source

India’s outsourcing industry is showing little sign of losing ground to artificial intelligence as the country moves up the value chain into services that are harder to automate, according to ING Bank NV... View Source

State Street Equity Research Head Marija Veitmane says she remains constructive on technology stocks, arguing that the sector’s strong earnings and profitability tell a favorable story despite the conversation about slowing down development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence models. "We strongly suspect that regulation is very likely to be kind of more supportive for larger companies," Veitma... View Source

Bloomberg journalists answer your questions about calls to slow down AI development in the US, and how it could affect China, in a Live Q&A on Sept. 18 at 11 a.m. HKT... View Source

AI compute leasing, Grok, Cursor, Starlink and Starship are combining into a much larger business — and why SpaceX could win across more scenarios than companies dependent on having the leading AI model. Why looking backward at 2025 revenue can miss the scale of SpaceX’s AI transformation The September AI deal snapshot: $41 billion in ... Read more... View Source

The US’s busiest container port for global trade foiled more than 120 million cyberattack attempts in August, posing a persistent threat to its operations as it grapples with shifting tariff policies... View Source

What happens when AI decides what makes a face beautiful? Alice Lassman explores the implications of new AI beauty tools. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka unpacks how artificial intelligence is reshaping shipping and logistics. He also share insights on trade tariffs, shifting supply chains amid geopolitical risks. He speaks with Haslinda Amin on "Insight with Haslinda Amin." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Britain’s monarch plans to ask some of the most critical figures in artificial intelligence for reassurances the technologists can keep their inventions under control... View Source

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Dan Clancy, CEO of streaming platform Twitch, discusses the outlook for his business as the industry gears up for the highly anticipated November launch of Grand Theft Auto Six, as more gamers seek online platforms to interact and engage with each other. He speaks with Shery Ahn on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 17 – A… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. A Treasure Chest in the Carina Nebula Explanation: This treasu... View Source

Eiji Ueda, head of Asia Pacific and partner at Apollo, joins the program in Hong Kong for an interview. The segment is introduced under the theme "Traders Look to BOJ After Fed Hike," signaling market focus on the Bank of Japan following the Federal Reserve’s move. In the brief exchange, the host greets Ueda and welcomes him to the set, and Ueda responds with thanks and pleasantries. Original file... View Source

James Bullard, Former St. Louis Fed President, discusses his view on the Fed's decision to raise rates at the September meeting, and his outlook for the US economy. He speaks exclusively with David Ingles on the sidelines of the BNP Paribas' annual Global Markets APAC Conference on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

China’s AI developers have already lost billions in a bruising stock selloff, and a push by US developers to cut Chinese rivals off from frontier models threatens to add to the pain if it succeeds... View Source

The Toronto International Film Festival is a place to go to see the future of film, but this year it also provided a glimpse at what is coming very soon in the realm of streaming. Four different streamers - Peacock, Netflix, Amazon, and AMC - all premiered early looks at upcoming horror-adjacent series that are dropping very soon. And by doing it at TIFF, they showed just how important the month o... View Source

Chinese-founded AI startup Manus is set to double its valuation to $4 billion in its first fundraising since Beijing ordered it to split from Meta Platforms Inc., charting a path to a fresh start after getting caught up in a geopolitical tussle... View Source

GMI Cloud, a Nvidia Corp. partner, is seeking a $300 million loan to buy chips for its facility in Thailand, according to people familiar with the matter, adding to a growing list of similar deals in Asia... View Source

Electronic payment providers need to be more diligent in vetting companies that use their platforms in order to protect people from fraud, the Philippine central bank said... View Source

Salesforce Inc. gave a long-term outlook for sales that exceeded analysts’ estimates, signaling to investors that the software company can boost revenue growth in the face of competition from artificial intelligence tools... View Source

Taiwan is expected to hold its benchmark rate for the 10th straight quarter, the longest stretch since 2019, as consumer inflation slows even with the economy soaring on AI... View Source

The technically advanced Specs feature an integrated display and a convenient self-contained design... View Source

Snap is introducing "Specs Intelligence," a new AI assistant that can connect other digital accounts to help you with things like work tasks and keeping track of travel information. It seems similar to AI assistants like Meta's Muse and Gemini's Spark, though Snap is pitching Specs Intelligence as an "anticipatory AI service" that "helps you manage what needs attention today, so you can make progr... View Source

Snap revealed new details and software capabilities for its Specs augmented reality glasses during a presentation led by CEO Evan Spiegel. Mark Gurman and Chris Welch got to try them on and try them out. Here's what they think (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Valor Equity Partners is handing out stock to its LPs instead of cash returns... View Source

My favorite part of wearing the Specs, Snap's new augmented reality glasses, was playing dominoes. Sitting across the table from a Snap employee wearing the same pair of chunky glasses, I could select a virtual domino with a pinch and then move my hand to drop it in place, watching the tile snap down in front of us on a real table. It was unlike anything I've tried in other VR headsets or smart gl... View Source

Huawei Technologies Co. is set to unveil new AI technology this week in defiance of US export control curbs, advancing its ambition to replace Nvidia Corp. in China and compete on the global stage... View Source

OpenAI shared several undisclosed incidents of its artificial intelligence models misbehaving, and unveiled a new framework for how it plans to track and disclose such incidents going forward... View Source

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman is poised to attend a state dinner that US President Donald Trump is holding for Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping... View Source

Detective work by a team of space-weather experts has discovered the truth about a historical event that had been thought to be the first-ever case of technological disruption by geomagnetic activity from the sun, but has now been shown to have taken place seven years later.From it being too hot or too wet to leaves on the track or cows on the line, there's a fine tradition of what the British pub... View Source

US government agencies are tracking cyber threats against nearly 20 shipping vessels around the world, according to US officials familiar with the situation... View Source

The International Meteor Organization, the nonprofit that coordinates and publishes amateur and professional observations of meteor phenomena, said its infrastructure has suffered a “critical blow” from a cyberattack. “We recently suffered a cyberattack that dealt a critical blow to aging infrastructure, taking much of our site offline," a static page on its website on Wednesday said. “We expect s... View Source

Ken Shinoda of DoubleLine Capital said the Fed’s unanimous rate hike was largely in line with market expectations, noting that traders had already priced in a better-than-90% chance of a move. He pointed to the reaction in Treasuries as evidence that the market believes more tightening may still be needed, with the 10-year yield slightly higher on the day and the long bond giving back some of its... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Derek Abramson, Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research Laboratory chief engineer, left, communicates with the Edwards Air Force Base air traffic control tower for approval to fly the Alta-X drone near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. Justin Link, small uncrewed airc... View Source

AI won’t just mimic human thought. It could access a “universal” source that exists all around us, he says... View Source

The U.S. military must be ready to engage the enemy farther from home than ever before, according to its highest-ranking officer."Today's modern battlefield operates from the seabed to cislunar space," Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Wednesday (Sept. 16) during a keynote address at the Air & Space Forces Association's Air, Space & Cyber Conference in Nationa... View Source

Gen Dan Caine comments at Washington summit come after US revealed it has deployed weapons in spaceAmerican troops need to prepare for combat not only in Earth’s orbit but around the moon, Donald Trump’s top military adviser said on Wednesday, looking ahead to a new frontier in warfare after the US revealed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space.Gen Dan Caine, chairman of the joi... View Source

E-waste from the AI boom has been vastly underestimated, a new report warns. By 2050, it could become enough trash to fill 23 million shipping containers - roughly enough 40-foot containers to circle the world six times if lined up in a row. It's a significantly higher estimate of AI's e-waste than previous studies have found because the authors of the new report factor in all the infrastructure n... View Source

Since the debut of Garrett P Serviss’ 1898 novel “Edison’s Conquest of Mars,” space-based warfare was relegated to the imagination — but no longer. In an address on the “State of the Space Force” on Tuesday, reported by Space.com, chief of space operations for the US Space Force General Douglas Schiess informed the public that the Pentagon has definitively deployed active space-based weapons platf... View Source

According to OpenAI President Greg Brockman, it was no surprise to the company that some of its models were able to break free of the testing environment — but what's happened since has forced some rethinking. Brockman joins Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway on the Odd Lots podcast to discuss what OpenAI has learned since the Hugging Face hacking incident and how worried we should be about the AI d... View Source

If you can deal with some false alerts and a basic display, this delivers great value for the price... View Source

Christopher Nolan's engrossing take on The Odyssey dominated at the box office and spurred a newfound interest in classic literature among filmgoers. But a new retelling of the story made entirely with AI is so bad that it might just make viewers hate the original book altogether. The new film, called Odysseus: The Fall, comes via AI firm Fountain 0 and is written and directed by company cofounder... View Source

Bain Capital Ventures has raised a $1.6 billion fund to back early-stage companies built for what it calls “life after AGI.” Partner Slater Stich discusses where the firm sees opportunities across AI infrastructure, software, robotics and science, why knowledge work could be transformed first, and how BCV identifies founders capable of building the next generation of category-defining AI companies... View Source

Our tests showed this blower's battery lasted longer than some of the competition... View Source

The winners of the first-ever Neil Armstrong Space Prize just got their hardware.Those awardees — the people who developed and mastered the famous landing capability of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket — were announced in April. But they didn't actually receive the prize until Tuesday night (Sept. 15), when it was bestowed during a ceremony at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C.And it was richly deserved,... View Source

A group of 10 banks is providing a $22 billion chip loan to support Blackstone Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s new cloud venture Crux AI, the latest mega-debt deal in the race to finance the expensive processors crucial to artificial intelligence... View Source

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In record time, Meta’s camera-adorned smart glasses have turned from a lucrative and well-reviewed consumer product into a widely-reviled and privacy-infringing tool of abuse in the arsenal of creepy men. The backlash has grown so much that many owners of the “pervert glasses” have become too afraid to use them in public, a PR disaster for what once was an accessory that was flying off the shelves... View Source

Bloomberg's Anthony Hughes joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Deals." Anthropic is preparing for its IPO and has picked Nasdaq as its listing venue. The Claude chatbot maker is seeking to raise as much as or more than SpaceX in an IPO that could take place as soon as October, Bloomberg has reported. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

6 Min Read NASA’s Moon Orbiter Spots New, ‘Once-in-Century’ Moon Crater A zoomed-in view of the Moon made from images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. (More information at the bottom of article.) Credits: NASA Goddard/Intuitive Machines/Robert Wagner It started as a routine data-quality check. But as Robert Wagner, a scientist with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scanned... View Source

Claude is getting a pair of new tools today: Docs and Slides. They'll let you create documents and presentations through Claude chats, which you can export, edit, and share with other users. As part of the announcement, Anthropic is also simplifying how Claude chats work, merging regular chats and Cowork into "one Claude," with all of its AI productivity tools available from any chat. Artifacts an... View Source

Bloomberg's Mike Shepard said President Trump's opposition to AI guardrails is another instance of his anti-regulation position across all industries, as well as his closeness with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang who recently pushed back on fears about AI safety. Shepard said that President Trump is also looking to his meeting with China's President Xi and wants no obstacles around AI heading into that co... View Source

5 Min Read Newfound ‘Baby’ Planet Smashes Record for Youngest Known World An artist’s concept of the youngest known exoplanet, Elias 2-24 b. Credits: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko Astronomers have confirmed a world that’s less than a million years old as the youngest known planet, using data from NASA-funded archives. Called Elias 2-24 b, the baby planet is still whirling in its natal disk... View Source

The deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, the Great Galveston Hurricane claimed as many as 12,000 lives. ... View Source

When Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil hit theaters in 2002, video game movies were largely seen as a niche. Films like Mortal Kombat and Tomb Raider had proven that big-screen game adaptations could be successful, but the commercial and critical failure of projects like the 1993 Super Mario Bros. still cast a long shadow. And while Anderson's vision of Raccoon City might have captivated audience... View Source

Octogenarian senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was wheeled back into the US Capitol building after spending 92 days recovering from a fall and pneumonia — an extraordinary absence during which he didn’t make a single public appearance via video or audio. Videos of the frail lawmaker didn’t exactly instill confidence that he’s now ready to vote on matters of national importance, let alone withstand ho... View Source

Stephen Moore, former senior economic adviser to President Donald Trump said that the AI industry is a 'huge factor' in the US economy given both the investment pouring into the space and the data center construction boom. Moore also discussed high oil and diesel prices, saying that as the price of energy rises so does 'everything else.' Despite high energy prices, Moore says he's bullish on the o... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) iss075e0088825 (Sept. 4, 2026) — Expedition 75 flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA and Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos smile for a portrait as they check out emergency medical equipment inside the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module.NASA Discover the IMM reports and clinical information HER... View Source