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A Pew Research Center poll spanning 37 countries found that a median of 46% of respondents believe artificial intelligence will destroy more jobs than it generates. Only 9% of those surveyed expect AI to result in a net increase in employment.
Apple's WebKit blog detailed Safari 27.0's developer features, headlined by a new Safari MCP server that lets AI coding agents like Claude Code or Codex control the browser to inspect DOM elements, network requests, screenshots, and console output. Developers enable it through Safari's Developer settings after turning on features for web developers, and Apple says the server runs locally without sending data externally.
American AI governance discussions focus largely on existential risks and protecting humanity from potential harms of advanced systems. Chinese authorities, by contrast, prioritize AI rules that shield the Communist Party's authority and political stability, reflecting fundamentally different visions of what 'safe' AI should look like.
WhatsApp is officially rolling out a new search button within individual chats, groups, and channels on iOS after weeks of beta testing. The button appears at the top of the screen when users scroll up through a conversation and disappears when they return to the bottom, letting them search messages without leaving the chat.
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman denied OpenAI's request to access the confidential terms of a settlement between X, SpaceX AI, and Apple in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit. X and SpaceX AI plan to drop their claims against Apple after reaching the deal, but the case continues against OpenAI. Pittman reviewed the agreement privately and concluded it holds no information pertinent to the remaining dispute.
An independent bug-hunting security research team exploited Anthropic's Claude AI model to gain unauthorized access to OpenAI's internal code repository. The incident highlights how advanced AI tools can be weaponized to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in rival companies' systems.
The Information reports that OpenAI is working toward claiming a solution to the Hodge Conjecture, one of mathematics' famous unsolved problems, but is largely focused on how to announce such a result without further angering the math community. This comes amid ongoing tension between OpenAI and mathematicians over prior claims about AI's mathematical capabilities.
Mazama Energy closed an oversubscribed $135 million Series B round led by Centaurus Capital and Doerr Capital, with Vinod Khosla among earlier backers. The funds will support horizontal drilling into super-hot rock formations in Oregon, where each well could generate up to 15 megawatts, and the company now estimates the site could ultimately yield 10 gigawatts of power, double last year's projection.
An antisense oligonucleotide therapy targeting the faulty CHCHD10 gene produced improved symptoms in the first ALS patient treated with it, who remained functional as a physician a year later. Separately, a study found that Chinese companies placed on the US Entity List appear to have increased their science patents and publications compared with non-sanctioned firms, though causation remains unproven.
OpenAI announced that its most advanced AI model produced a mathematical proof that the Navier–Stokes equations, which describe fluid flow, can generate a singularity — a point of physically impossible infinite speed. Mathematician George Karniadakis calculated that for air this breakdown occurs at a vortex width of about 70 nanometres, roughly the distance a molecule travels before colliding with another.
At the first International Space Summit in Paris on September 10, European leaders including Ursula von der Leyen and Emmanuel Macron called for the continent to build its own launch and crewed spaceflight capacity rather than relying on NASA and firms like SpaceX. The event took on added significance after reports that the White House discouraged US companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin from attending, which one former satellite executive called a wake-up call.
A researcher at Slovenia's InnoRenew Centre of Excellence describes winning a nearly €2 million European Research Council grant to develop self-repairing, UV-protective fungal-biofilm coatings for buildings. The five-year award, secured after a lengthy application and resubmission process, immediately reshaped the scope of her research group's work and her own daily responsibilities, shifting her focus from hands-on experiments toward managing people and projects.