AISep 15, 2026The Verge
Meta’s new One subscriptions put a price on social media and AI
Meta One bundles Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Plus with extra Muse/Meta AI generation — from $7.99 consumer tiers up to $499 business Max.
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AISep 15, 2026Google AI Blog
New insights from Google’s AI & Economy ATLAS
Google’s ATLAS update shows India’s creatives and U.S. technical roles leading work AI use — while scientists save ~7 hours a week and still bottleneck on validation.
AISep 15, 2026TechCrunch
Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents
AIUC raised a $40M Series A to sell SOC-2-style audits for AI agents — 5,000 tests, ~100-page reports — as enterprises freeze deals over unguaranteeable behavior.
AISep 15, 2026Ars Technica
Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost
Mozilla’s new open-source AI report says the closed-frontier lead is about 4.4 months — and often five times the per-task price — so most routine work should default to open weights.
AISep 15, 2026TechCrunch
Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear
At Dreamforce, Salesforce unveiled Koa — a Nemotron-based reasoning model post-trained for sales and support without touching customer data — and aimed it at Claude and ChatGPT token bills.
AISep 15, 2026MIT Technology Review
What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble
Hyperscalers are racing toward roughly $1.1 trillion in AI data-center spend through 2027 — and the math only works if productivity and revenue explode on a compressed clock.
AISep 15, 2026NVIDIA Blog
Heart of the Matter: How a Major Children’s Hospital Uses Open Source NVIDIA AI for Cardiac Care
CHOP turned hours of pediatric heart modeling into seconds with MONAI — and is pushing GPU physics toward same-day device-fit decisions for congenital heart disease.
AISep 15, 2026Ars Technica
Volvo increases the batteries for 2028 XC60 and XC90 plug-in refresh
Volvo’s refreshed XC60 and XC90 plug-ins jump to a 37.9 kWh usable pack — and both get Gemini on a new 11.2-inch Android Automotive stack.
AISep 14, 2026The Verge
Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?
Amodei’s three-step “pace the frontier” pitch won rival CEOs’ nods — and immediately drew cartel and safety-washing accusations that only measurable teeth can settle.
AISep 14, 2026TechCrunch
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’
On speakerphone at All-In, Huang told Trump “you’re right” — they won’t let an AI slowdown happen — as the president branded the scare a hoax.
AISep 14, 2026The Verge
What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development
Amodei’s “pace the frontier” essay triggered a quote storm — Altman and Hassabis nodded, Musk said he’s right, and Trump called the scare a China-helping conspiracy.
AISep 14, 2026TechCrunch
OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says
WSJ reports OpenAI paid over $300 million for Glass Imaging — ex-Apple Portrait Mode engineers using neural nets to beat tiny phone camera physics.