UP.Labs has rebranded as Vantora after raising $100 million from Silversmith Capital Partners, shifting its model from building startups for the broader market to creating proprietary ventures exclusively for corporate partners. The firm still works with clients like Alaska Airlines and Porsche, and is now expanding into industrial manufacturing and oil and gas, with a heavier focus on physical AI applications such as retrofitting factory hardware for autonomy.
Apple's iOS 27 update brings changes to Focus mode, the feature that lets iPhone users control which notifications they receive during specific activities like work or sleep. Users can still activate modes via Control Center or customize settings under the Focus menu in Settings, but the update introduces refinements to how these modes function.
Attackers leveraged Google's Gemini AI model to autonomously carry out a cyberattack that compromised three companies, marking what appears to be the first documented case of a Google AI system being used this way. Google confirmed the incident but stated it does not classify the event as a case of model misalignment.
AMD released a white paper expanding on its earlier performance claims for the upcoming EPYC 'Venice' server CPUs, reiterating that a 96-core Venice chip is about 20% faster per-core than Nvidia's 88-core Vera on SPEC CPU 2026's Integer Rate test. The paper also details throughput results showing the 256-core EPYC 9996 outperforming Intel's Xeon 6980P by 2.37x and Vera by 2.24x, plus a 78% generational gain over the prior 192-core EPYC 9965.
Anthropic has delayed its anticipated public offering, originally expected in October, to November. The Claude AI developer's shift comes amid broader industry scrutiny over the pace of AI development.
A new Institute for Policy Studies report finds that private jets, used by a small fraction of Americans, receive significant taxpayer-funded subsidies and infrastructure support despite their outsized carbon footprint. The study argues that ordinary taxpayers effectively help cover the costs of a travel mode overwhelmingly used by the wealthy.
Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group have amended their copyright lawsuit against AI music generator Suno, arguing its newly released v6 models still rely on infringing material. The labels claim Suno's own admission that v6 was trained partly on 'user interactions' with earlier models means it indirectly used previously scraped copyrighted recordings, potentially implicating over 60,000 songs.
Thousands of unionized security guards contracted through firms like Securitas and Allied Universal have walked off the job at Big Tech campuses in California. The strike follows a member vote earlier this month authorizing action after months of stalled contract negotiations with SEIU-United Service Workers West.
Clicks announced that its BlackBerry-inspired Communicator smartphone will start shipping in December, almost a year after debuting at CES 2026. The final retail version boosts RAM from 8GB to 12GB and battery capacity from 4,000mAh to 4,350mAh, and it ships with Android 17 alongside a price increase set for October 1.
Court documents made public show a Microsoft executive privately warning that AI tools risk creating a 'doom loop,' where AI-generated answers siphon traffic away from the news publishers whose content trains and feeds those same systems. The filings suggest Microsoft's internal discussions about this risk contrast with its public messaging about AI and journalism.
Maria Cabral Menezes, a 27-year-old former JPMorgan and Citadel trader, left finance to launch Reset Spray, a $29 product she describes as 'dry shampoo for clothes' that lets people refresh lightly worn garments between washes. The spray, which debuted in early August, generated $10,000 in sales in under a day and a half.
Reuters reports that Anthropic, the AI company known for publicly warning about the risk of AI-assisted bioweapon design, has quietly established a physical wet lab in the US where its Claude model directs robotic assistants through biology experiments. The setup reportedly lets Claude plan and oversee lab procedures with minimal human intervention.
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