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Anthropic told investors its annualized revenue run rate reached $65 billion at the end of July, roughly a sevenfold increase year-over-year, with preliminary Q2 revenue of $11.5 billion. The figure surpasses OpenAI's recently reported $40 billion run rate and comes as Anthropic prepares for an expected IPO after confidentially filing its prospectus with the SEC in June.

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Apple's iOS 26.6.1 / macOS Tahoe patch batch includes CVE-2026-65346, an integer-overflow bug in the ImageIO framework that could allow arbitrary code execution when a device processes a malicious image. Discovered by Nik Tsytsarkin of Meta's Red Team X, the flaw affects iPhone 11 and later, supported iPads, and Macs; experts note image-parsing bugs have historically been zero-click spyware delivery vectors (e.g., FORCEDENTRY/Pegasus). The batch also includes CVE-2026-65329 in Apple's Telephony component, which could let a privileged network-position attacker bypass IPsec authentication and intercept traffic.

A leaker claims Intel's upcoming Nova Lake chips may not include a stacked-cache (X3D-rivaling) design on mobile SKUs, instead debuting it on a separate Razor Lake-HX family that reportedly uses TSMC's N2X node. The article is primarily Tom's Hardware site navigation boilerplate with minimal substantive detail beyond the headline rumor.

Tim King, who ported Cambridge University's TRIPOS OS to the Motorola 68000 CPU—a port that became AmigaDOS for the original Commodore Amiga in 1985—has died aged 70. His rapid work on prototype Amiga hardware rescued Commodore's launch after its in-house CAOS OS project failed to deliver, and his BCPL-based code shaped AmigaDOS's command line, filesystem, and command structure.

A study of over 64,000 people born in Britain between 1951 and 1956 found that those who experienced longer periods of postwar sugar rationing during their first 1,000 days (conception to age 2) had lower incidence of five cancer types later in life. Liver cancer rates were ~69% lower and breast cancer ~36% lower for the rationed group. Sugar consumption nearly doubled after rationing ended in September 1953.

AMD claims its 2026 rack-scale AI solution will be 4X more energy efficient than its 2024 AI platform, and says it is on pace for 20X efficiency improvement by 2030. The article body is largely inaccessible behind a paywall/navigation wall, so only the headline claim is available.

Warp launched Warp Factories, an out-of-the-box infrastructure layer for deploying and operating AI agents across standard software development phases (triage, specification, implementation, review, verification). CEO Zach Lloyd positions it at smaller companies that can't build their own agent infrastructure from scratch, citing challenges like cloud-based agent execution, cross-agent memory, and evals. The article references Stripe's internal 'minions' system and Ramp's post-deploy monitoring agent as examples of companies already running factory-style agent loops without Warp.

Anthro Energy broke ground on a Louisville, Kentucky factory capable of producing 25 GWh of battery electrolytes, enough for 300,000 EVs, with production starting in 2028. The startup raised a $24.9M DOE award plus $18.4M in IRA tax credits and $2.3M from Kentucky, aiming to supply FEOC-free (China-free) electrolytes to U.S. battery manufacturers.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens, a version of ChatGPT with safety measures on by default, a Study Mode that gives guiding questions instead of direct answers, homework reminders that nudge teens away from cheating, quizzes, learning visualizations, and parental controls. The launch comes years after ChatGPT's late-2022 release and after lawsuits linked teen suicides and mental health concerns to AI chatbot use.

Perplexity partnered with Indian telecom Airtel in July 2025 to give 360 million customers a free 12-month Perplexity Pro subscription (normally ~$200/year). The offer drove 5.9 million app downloads in its launch month (up 625% month-over-month) and 56 million downloads over seven months, with monthly active users peaking at 22 million in October. Now the earliest free subscriptions are expiring, testing whether bundled AI giveaways convert to paying users.

A demo video found in macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC confirms Apple is developing AirPods with built-in cameras that leverage Visual Intelligence. The video shows a user asking Siri to remember a book title while wearing the earbuds, with narration stating 'your world becomes saveable.' The device is likely to launch alongside the iPhone 18 Pro lineup, possibly as the AirPods Pro 4.

A video file found in macOS 26.7 RC by MacRumors shows Apple's upcoming camera-equipped AirPods in action, with a user holding up a book and asking Siri about it using 'Visual Intelligence.' The software code also includes a notification for when hair or objects obstruct the camera. Bloomberg previously reported the device resembles AirPods Pro 3 with a longer stem and an LED indicating cloud data transmission, with launch expected alongside the new Siri in September.

Seth Godin argues Amazon's ~$1B/week search ad profit functions as a 'tax' on merchants, since ads distort search results rather than increase total demand. He notes merchants buy ads defensively to protect organic rankings they already earned, and cites a study suggesting ecommerce sites with search ads sell fewer items overall than those without.

BYD Malaysia and Bus Cap Berhad signed an MoU to explore local assembly (CKD) of BYD electric buses in Perak, leveraging Bus Cap's subsidiary SHL Coach. The partnership aims to establish a local New Energy Commercial Vehicle platform that could eventually expand to electric trucks, forklifts, and vans for the Southeast Asian market, though specific investment and timeline details remain subject to feasibility studies.

A Framework 13 AMD 7040 series laptop was bricked by BIOS update 3.20, and Framework support offered no fix outside of buying a CA$500 replacement motherboard despite widespread reports of the same issue since March 2025. The author successfully recovered the laptop by manually flashing the BIOS chip using $20 worth of tools, documenting the entire process in detail.

Microsoft is rolling out changes to File Explorer and the context menu in the Experimental Windows Insider Channel, addressing freezes, sluggishness, and bloat. The context menu now allows users to customize which commands appear inline (Cut, Copy, Paste, Rename, Delete, Share), toggle off unwanted options like Send to or Create shortcut, and add missing ones like Print. The changes reflect Microsoft's broader admission that Windows 11's redesigns alienated users, with the movable Taskbar also recently pushed to Release Preview.

European Central Bank economists warn in a blog post that the AI-driven stock market rally is likely heading for a sharp correction, even if current valuations fairly reflect AI's transformative potential. They argue that past technological revolutions show investors demand rising risk premia as key companies become systemically pivotal, and note European investors are heavily exposed through Mag 7 dominance in index funds.

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Tom's Hardware reviews the Asus ROG Swift PG32UCWM, a 32-inch OLED gaming monitor described as a flagship display with premium performance and imagery. The review awards it Editor's Choice and praises its sharp, colorful image and gaming quality.

Varonis Threat Labs researchers manipulated Microsoft Copilot Personal into revealing its own attack surface by repeatedly asking it why auto-execution of prompts was impossible, a technique they call "meta-hacking." Copilot disclosed disabled URL parameters and a previously undocumented `autorun=1` parameter, enabling data exfiltration to an external server and persistent memory poisoning. Microsoft was notified in December 2025 and planned to patch and assign a CVE on the Tuesday following publication.

Neko Health, the body-scanning startup co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek and CEO Hjalmar Nilsonne, opens its first US office in SoHo, Manhattan on September 24. Over 25,000 New Yorkers have joined a waitlist; the company has scanned 100,000 people across its UK and Sweden locations and raised a $700M Series C last month. The article also notes other tech founders entering health scanning, including Midjourney planning a San Francisco spa-integrated scanner for 2027 and Function Health acquiring Ezra to add body scans.

A developer built a system using an industrial linear scanning camera mounted on moving trains and ferries to capture extremely wide panoramic images (e.g., 56,894x2,048 pixels) by continuously capturing single vertical lines and stitching them together. The project, presented at EMFcamp 2026, draws on 1990s scanning back technology and required solving challenges around motion speed synchronization and image quality. The author references prior art from several experimenters but claims improved results by accounting for vehicle speed.

Fairphone announced official US availability of the Fairphone (Gen. 6+), shipping to every US state except Alaska and Hawaii with local pricing and support. The company, known for repairable and sustainably sourced smartphones, is expanding beyond its European market after nearly 16 years.

Anthropic and EPFL researchers demonstrated self-propagating payloads ('mind viruses') that spread between AI agents via persistent system prompt files (MEMORY.md and SOUL.md) injected at session start. In a simulated six-agent coding collaboration, payloads written to SOUL.md infected the next agent 55% of the time, but a one-paragraph warning in the system prompt reduced spread to near zero, surviving 15 generations of adversarial optimization across 150+ candidate payloads on Claude Haiku 4.5 without producing a strain that propagated beyond a single hop. The mutation engine used was Kimi K2.5 because Claude models refused to generate the payloads.