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Kairos Power has selected Samsung C&T to help build its 50 MW demonstration reactor (Hermes 2) for Google, with Samsung providing up to $100M in combined equity ($70M) and in-kind engineering services. Hermes 2, a fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactor using TRISO fuel, is targeted to begin operating by 2030 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and will count as the first 50 MW of Kairos's broader agreement to supply Google with ~500 MW of nuclear power by 2035.

Amazon has blocked Meta's AI assistant Muse from purchasing goods on Amazon.com, returning an error stating that 'unauthorized AI agent' access violates Amazon's Conditions of Use. The block highlights both competitive tensions—Amazon has its own models and inference platform—and practical concerns about agent-driven commerce, where a hallucinated bad order leaves Amazon to handle angry customers and vendors.

X expanded its 'Under the Hood' transparency tool to now show users when their posts have been downranked or withheld specifically because of government-required content filtering, including which country made the legal demand. Users who posted at least 10 times in a month can download a JSON file from X's settings showing account labels, post-level downranking, and country-specific content removals.

Bitcoin rose above $85,000 on September 21 2026, its highest since late January, up ~3.8% on the day and ~35% over three months, though still well below its October 2025 all-time high of over $126,000. Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan declared the 'crypto winter' over, while the Senate blocked the Clarity Act from advancing the prior week.

The iPhone 18 Pro Max reportedly sees storage write speeds plummet to 1.1 MB/s under heavy write loads due to QLC NAND, a 38% drop compared to TLC-based Pro models. QLC enables higher capacity but degrades sharply when the SLC cache is exhausted.

A fake LastPass Authenticator installer hosted on a GitHub page (github.com/LastPass-Authenticator) that ranks in search results delivers a 148MB ZIP containing a malicious DLL that side-loads via a renamed Microsoft debugging tool (vsdbg.exe). The payload installs a Microsoft-signed kernel driver (Alinubx.sys, signed March 2023) that terminates 145 named antivirus and EDR processes from kernel space, below where security tools can detect or block it. The driver had zero VirusTotal detections as of August and was not on Microsoft's blocked driver list.

Apple's support documentation page details how to turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac, covering macOS versions including macOS 27 Golden Gate, macOS Tahoe 26, and macOS Sequoia 15. The page is part of the broader Mac User Guide and sits alongside sections on Siri AI, ChatGPT integration, Writing Tools, Image Playground, and Genmoji.

Tom's Hardware highlights a pre-built gaming PC priced at $2,299 featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, an RTX 5080 Founders Edition GPU (described as DLSS 5-capable), 32GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD. The article is essentially a product deal listing with no independent benchmarking or technical analysis.

A joint advisory from Japan, U.S., Australia, and Germany reports that North Korean threat actors behind the 'Contagious Interview' campaign have compromised 30,000+ devices across 100+ countries since at least 2022, stealing $10.71M from 7,000+ crypto wallets. The attackers pose as recruiters on LinkedIn, lure developers and Web3 specialists into fake coding assessments, and deploy malware families like BeaverTail, InvisibleFerret, and OtterCookie via the infection chain.

Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Google €403 million for GDPR violations in how three features—Web & App Activity, Location History, and Location Accuracy—handled user location data from May 2018 to February 2020. The DPC found breaches in lawful/fair processing, transparency, and excessive data retention, and ordered Google to bring its processing into compliance within 6 months. The fine is the DPC's fourth-largest but cannot be collected until an Irish court confirms it; Google can appeal within 28 days.

The article title claims Google confirmed Gemini models hacked three companies in May 2026, but the retrieved page content contains only cookie consent boilerplate with no substantive article text, quotes, or technical details.

Newly unsealed statements in the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft include an OpenAI executive allegedly admitting chatbots are an 'existential threat' to journalism, a Microsoft director describing training as 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' and internal data showing NYT click-through rates dropping. The filings threaten the fair-use defense by suggesting AI products are direct substitutes for the source work.

Oura's upcoming $2.2B IPO is primarily a liquidity event for existing shareholders, with 36.5M of 50M shares offered coming from selling stockholders. Forerunner Ventures alone plans to sell its entire 9.3% stake for ~$1.2B at the $42 midpoint price, while Oura itself nets only ~$6.2M for general purposes after using $526.4M to cover tax obligations on vesting employee grants.

The Trump administration reportedly plans to give Russel Vought, a political appointee, veto power over all NIH grants. The article body was not accessible—only cookie consent boilerplate was captured—so details beyond the headline are unavailable.

Former accountant Ahad Ali built Tabby, an AI-powered real-time bookkeeping product that uses Plaid to import live account data and auto-generates financial dashboards, aiming to make the visible accounting software layer 'nonexistent.' After 14 months, Tabby has 5,500 small businesses and roughly $100K ARR with a team of just seven people, targeting end users directly rather than through accounting firms.

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Lon Lundgren measured a six-week decline in 'Fable 5' reasoning tokens after Anthropic made it permanently available in subscriptions, finding August delivered dramatically fewer thinking tokens than July across five measurement methods. Even at max effort levels, most invocations received little to no thinking tokens, and longer runs rarely matched published benchmarks.

Local opposition blocked 45 data center projects worth $68 billion in Q2 2026, even as overall data center investments are reportedly still on track to hit $32 trillion by 2050. The article provides no further substantive detail beyond the headline figures.

Volt Auto, the Malaysian distributor for Dongfeng passenger vehicles, confirmed that the Voyah Dream 9 MPV will launch in Malaysia in Q1 2027 with both BEV and PHEV variants. The BEV has a 120kWh battery with 701km CLTC range, the PHEV offers 300km WLTP pure-electric range, both on 800V architecture with 20-80% DC charging in 12 minutes. The vehicle includes Level 3 autonomous driving via Huawei's Qiankun ADS 5.0 system.

xAI announced Grok 4.7, a new larger base model trained with a longer RL run weighted toward multi-hour tasks. It is priced at $2/M input and $6/M output (same as Grok 4.6), scores 46.3% on CursorBench 4.0 and 71.0% (high effort) on DeepSWE v1.1, and ships with a new safeguard stack that tops LatchBio biosafety at 62.4% and allows only 3.3% of risky prompts on HackerBench v0.3.

AMD's stock price rose enough to push its market capitalization above $1 trillion, joining Nvidia, Broadcom, and SK hynix in that tier while Intel has not yet reached it. The article text itself is almost entirely boilerplate with no additional financial or technical detail beyond the headline.

The article title indicates Trump has rejected calls for an AI slowdown and instead launched an initiative called "AI Force." However, the article body was not captured—only cookie consent boilerplate is present, so substantive details about what "AI Force" entails are unavailable from this source.

Claire reviews Meta's Muse, a consumer AI agent that manages calendars, email, goals, and browser tasks, finding its UX notably polished—no terminal exposure, no awkward permission interruptions, and a first-attempt family newsletter that outperformed OpenClaw and Codex. Muse's permission pattern asks at the moment access becomes relevant, summarizes what it learned, and confirms before acting; its activity feed logs every tool call, script, and step for transparency. The Warp segment on shipping 2,000 PRs/month with AI factories is mentioned in the title but not detailed in the excerpt.

TechCrunch announces a Disrupt 2026 main stage session featuring all five Benchmark general partners—Jack Altman, Peter Fenton, Chetan Puttagunta, Everett Randle, and Eric Vishria—discussing where the next breakout startups will come from. Benchmark recently raised ~$2B across a $750M flagship fund and its first $1.25B growth fund, a notable shift for a firm known for concentrated early-stage investing. The article cites OECD data that AI companies captured 61% of global VC in 2025 ($258.7B of $427.1B), with deals over $100M making up ~73% of total AI investment value.

AMD's budget Ryzen 5 5500F and 7500 CPUs have appeared at retail priced roughly $20 above their announced MSRP, even from first-party sellers. The article text itself is mostly site navigation and membership boilerplate, so concrete retail context beyond the headline is thin.