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Anthropic releases findings from a pilot that let three external researchers run studies on Claude usage; one study found users delegate high-stakes tasks (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/enabling-independent-research

Enabling independent research on how people use Claude
Earlier this year, we ran a pilot giving external researchers access to aggregate, real-world Claude usage data. Three research groups designed their own studies for Anthropic Insights, our privacy-preserving analysis tool. In this post, we share high-level results from those studies and what we learned running this pilot.

Just came across this in #TheEconomist. I knew that the #Japanese #birth rate was low, but this shows it's going to get worse because the size of the childbearing cohort is about to start shrinking…

US tech giants have shifted their stance to publicly backing open AI models, with Anthropic and Amazon remaining notable holdouts alongside the US government (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/open-weight-ai-models/

Thoughts on "Open" Models
The open letter on open weights feels familiar yet different...

Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a $1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures (Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/amid-personal-assistant-investor

Amid Personal Assistant Investor Frenzy, Town Nears $1 Billion Valuation in Round Led by Instinct-Backer Index Ventures
Town, the buzzy enterprise personal agent, is raising at $1 billion, sources tell us

Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed for AI rather than human vision, raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkhattyhzl

Former Meta AR/VR executives raise $21 million to build sensors for the AI era
Elio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta. Now they are betting that artificial intelligence needs a fundamentally different way to see the world. 

Dario Amodei says Anthropic has never backed an open-weights model ban, lists reasons top chips shouldn't be sold to China, calls for global model testing, more (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models

Our position on open-weights models
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models

Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1 (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/ai-uber-spending

Exclusive: Uber cuts AI costs even as usage jumps
Companies are finding creative — and cheaper — ways to increase their AI use.

Nvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding ~$440B to Nvidia's market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand remains strong (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/27/nvidia-nvda-q2-earnings.html

Nvidia jumps 7% after blockbuster earnings boost AI confidence
Nvidia shares rose on Thursday after the chip giant's revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand will remain strong.

The US and China create a "Super Intelligence Dialogue" on AI risks and a separate AI incident hotline, likened to a Cold War-era "red telephone" (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/26/us-china-ai-si-deal

U.S. and China agree to "super intelligence" dialogue amid AI tensions
The "Super Intelligence Dialogue" will meet by November, the White House said.

X rolls out X Money to US Premium and Premium subscribers, combining a deposit account with up to 6% APY, free instant transfers on X, and a Visa debit card (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/27/x-money-apple-wallet/

X Money officially launches in the US with Apple Wallet support after invite-only beta - 9to5Mac
X has officially launched X Money, which includes Apple Wallet support, moving the service beyond its invite-only beta and beginning a...