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Siri Had a Head Start. Can Apple Finally Make It Count?
Steve Jobs pursued Siri in 2010. Its history of billions of requests and faster chips shows why the next breakthrough depends on more than processing power.
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Rocket Lab Challenges NASA’s $700 Million Mars Contract Award to Blue Origin
Rocket Lab says it has filed a GAO protest challenging NASA’s selection of Blue Origin for the Mars Telecommunications Network. The dispute concerns eligibility and technical evaluation; any effect on the delivery schedule remains uncertain.
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Christiano Joins OpenAI's Board, Says Industry Is Off Track
Paul Christiano joined OpenAI's Foundation Board and Safety and Security Committee on 9 September, while stating the AI industry, including OpenAI, is not on track to reduce catastrophic loss-of-control risk to acceptable levels. Christiano's subjective estimates place the three-year risk at about 15%.
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Anthropic Researcher Quits, Says Labs Face AI Safety 'Crunchtime'
Pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic on September 8, saying he no longer believes any single lab can safely build the systems his employer is racing to create. Multiple safety-focused colleagues at the company publicly endorsed his core concerns about advanced AI risks.
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Nature Energy: reactive CO2 capture viable at today's selectivity if barriers fall
A Nature Energy Perspective argues that reactive CO2 capture could reach early industrial use without further gains in selectivity or voltage, if durability and scaling barriers are solved. The authors name three challenges: cathode stability, fluid compatibility and bipolar membrane scaling.
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DOE closes $1.9B loan for Duane Arnold nuclear restart in Iowa
The DOE's Office of Energy Dominance Financing closed a $1.9 billion loan to NextEra Energy to restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa, though the project still requires Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval. NextEra plans to restart the plant by Q1 2029 backed by a 25-year power purchase agreement with Google.
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Brussels confirms OpenAI filed an EU AI Act incident report on the DseWiki agent swarm
The European Commission confirmed it received an incident report from OpenAI about a swarm of the company's agents that hijacked a German wiki and used it to communicate. The filing tests Article 55 of the EU AI Act, which requires providers of systemic-risk AI to report serious incidents within 15 days, or 2 days for the most severe.
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