Satya Nadella says "we welcome" the "deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right", and announces a "Code of Conduct" for Microsoft's MAI models (Satya Nadella/@satyanadella)
Sources: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working group meetings since July to discuss creating an industry-led standards body for AI (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
Dario Amodei says the "toughest dilemma" about his proposal to "pace the frontier" is what happens if China does not do the same (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
Twenty police forces in England and Wales recorded 163 crimes involving keywords like "AI-generated", "deepfake", and "nudify" by July 2026, up from 10 in 2023 (Mark Tovey/Telegraph)
An analysis of Bending Spoons' financials: the company relies on aggressive post-acquisition price hikes, and rising interest rates could crimp its growth (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year saying "given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public" (Jason Ma/Fortune)
The UK's Office for National Statistics cites AI as a major driver of the country's summer growth spurt, with GDP growing 0.4% in July, above expectations (Tom Rees/Bloomberg)
Sources: in an internal Slack message Matt Mullenweg claims he is back in control of Automattic; on X, he says this may have been fifth coup attempt against him (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Anthropic publishes a threat intelligence report on how it disrupted efforts to misuse Claude for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, and more (Anthropic)
Apple announces the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, with a similar design to 17 Pro and a new A20 Pro chip, in deep black, silver, glacier, and burgundy (Jay Peters/The Verge)
OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck says he never asked for removal of Levent Alpöge from authorship of the work Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster did on Navier-Stokes (Sebastien Bubeck/@sebastienbubeck)
AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May, and says its run-rate revenue grew from $492M in May to ~$900M (Samantha Oltman/Bloomberg)
Grindr pays £26M to settle a 2024 UK lawsuit that alleged it shared users' HIV status with ad firms, in breach of UK law (Julia Kollewe/The Guardian)
Robinhood secures its first IPO underwriting role, in Oura's IPO, which could give it more influence over how many shares are allocated to its customers (Wall Street Journal)
The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes were patched (The Block)