Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post calling for AI developers to deliberately slow the pace of capability gains, citing rapid recent advances and the OpenAI-HuggingFace security incident as warning signs. He outlined three approaches to this 'pacing' and committed Anthropic to one: allowing third-party evaluators, such as METR, to be embedded within the company to verify safety commitments and ensure incidents are reported. The post follows a researcher's public resignation from Anthropic over fears that AI labs are risking catastrophic outcomes.
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison adopted a trading plan on June 22 permitting him to sell as many as 50 million shares, worth roughly $7.5 billion at current prices, through October 24. Even after a full sale, Ellison would retain about 1.1 billion shares and remain Oracle's largest shareholder with over 40% ownership.
A DC Circuit Court of Appeals panel unanimously ruled that the Department of Energy's use of emergency wartime powers to keep the J.H. Campbell coal plant in Michigan running past its scheduled closure was unlawful. The DOE had issued five consecutive 90-day emergency declarations under the Federal Power Act to prevent the plant from shutting down, despite no actual power shortage.
The EPA is proposing to eliminate a federal rule requiring states to notify the public and accept comments before approving air-pollution permits for industrial facilities, including data centers and the power plants built to supply them. A separate EPA proposal from last month would also allow developers to begin construction before permits are finalized. These changes come as data centers expand rapidly across the rural South, disproportionately affecting Black communities.
PayPal's chief executive is moving forward with an internal restructuring strategy after a proposed $50 billion acquisition of the company failed to materialize. The plan reportedly includes incentives tied to performance, with the CEO eligible for a $25 million bonus if the turnaround convinces investors of its merit.
Florida's Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles confirmed the ShinyHunters extortion group breached its DAVID driver database on September 4, 2026, after the gang claimed to have stolen over 200,000 driver records. FLHSMV said the intruder used login credentials from a single Plant City Police Department account that had been improperly saved on the employee's personal device, contradicting ShinyHunters' claim that it exploited a password-reset flaw across multiple accounts.
Google has agreed to buy roughly 50% of the electricity generated by a nuclear power plant, according to reports. The deal reflects the company's push to secure reliable, carbon-free power to run its data centers and AI operations.
YuE2 is a new AI music generation system evaluated against WildSongBench, a test set of 192 prompts across 15 system configurations. The evaluation used automated scoring methods, including a best-of-8 selection approach that picks the strongest output from eight generations based on musicality, adherence to the prompt, and lyric accuracy. Results were charted using combined metrics like SongBench, SongEval, MuLan, and AllMusicCaps to measure song quality and text alignment.
Apple introduced AppleCare One Family, a new device protection plan launching September 14 that covers unlimited Apple devices for up to six people under one household for a flat $50 monthly fee. The plan includes AppleCare Plus perks such as unlimited accidental damage repairs, 24/7 expert support, and up to two theft or loss claims annually for iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches. It covers nearly all Apple hardware, including Macs, AirPods, HomePod, Apple TV, and Vision Pro.
Security experts warn that travel scams have become more sophisticated than traditional pickpocketing, targeting vacationers through new digital and in-person deception methods. They are urging travelers to adopt updated precautions before and during trips to avoid falling victim to these schemes.
PlanetScale introduced Neki, a system that adds a router, sidecars, and control plane on top of standard Postgres to enable horizontal scaling across many real Postgres shards. It supports online resharding, shard splitting, high-availability clusters per shard, topology-aware connection pooling, and coordinated schema changes without downtime.
PlanetScale unveiled Neki, a new distributed database built on real Postgres instances running across shards, now available as a platform preview. The company says it drew on eight years of experience running large sharded MySQL clusters to design a system that keeps standard Postgres semantics rather than mimicking compatibility. Neki uses a router that speaks the Postgres wire protocol to direct queries to the appropriate shard.
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