Anthropic and OpenAI are already free to "pace the frontier" and should do so for business reasons, instead of first demanding a preferred regulatory framework (David Sacks/@davidsacks)

David Sacks / @davidsacks:
Anthropic and OpenAI are already free to “pace the frontier” and should do so for business reasons, instead of first demanding a preferred regulatory framework  —  Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed.  People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.

Filing: Vy Capital owns a 3.4% SpaceX stake; Vy is also the largest outside investor in BoringCo and Neuralink and committed $700M to Musk's Twitter acquisition (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)

Ivan Levingston / Financial Times:
Filing: Vy Capital owns a 3.4% SpaceX stake; Vy is also the largest outside investor in BoringCo and Neuralink and committed $700M to Musk's Twitter acquisition  —  Low-profile venture capital firm Vy Capital has emerged as one of the rocket maker's largest shareholders

As the AI wave creates tech fortunes at breakneck speed, a look at the growing ecosystem helping founders navigate the challenges of becoming extremely wealthy (Tiffany Ap/Bloomberg)

Tiffany Ap / Bloomberg:
As the AI wave creates tech fortunes at breakneck speed, a look at the growing ecosystem helping founders navigate the challenges of becoming extremely wealthy  —  A growing post-exit ecosystem is helping founders deal with the unexpected difficulties of becoming extremely wealthy.

South Korea's espionage laws, broadened for the first time in over seven decades, take effect on Sept. 13 as foreign spies increasingly target its chip sector (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)

Daniel Tudor / Financial Times:
South Korea's espionage laws, broadened for the first time in over seven decades, take effect on Sept. 13 as foreign spies increasingly target its chip sector  —  Seoul broadens its espionage legislation for the first time in more than seven decades  —  South Korea is arming itself …

Polymarket names Warren Jenson its first CFO as the company aims to grow in the US; Jenson served as finance chief of Amazon, EA, NBC, and most recently Nielsen (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal:
Polymarket names Warren Jenson its first CFO as the company aims to grow in the US; Jenson served as finance chief of Amazon, EA, NBC, and most recently Nielsen  —  Warren Jenson appointed as Polymarket's first chief financial officer at a pivotal time for the prediction markets industry

Letter: the Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Sen. Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach, calling it "reckless" (Axios)

Axios:
Letter: the Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Sen. Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach, calling it “reckless”  —  A Republican-led Senate subcommittee that oversees disaster management is investigating OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach in July, Axios has learned.

Sources: PE firm Silver Lake intends to merge French software companies Cegid and Silae in a €10B+ deal, allowing them to combine data and integrate software (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: PE firm Silver Lake intends to merge French software companies Cegid and Silae in a €10B+ deal, allowing them to combine data and integrate software  —  Plan comes as buyout groups grapple with impact of AI on software companies bought at high valuations

Lyft begins to offer Waymo rides in Nashville at no additional cost, the second city where it is offering robotaxi trips, as it plays catch up with Uber (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Lyft begins to offer Waymo rides in Nashville at no additional cost, the second city where it is offering robotaxi trips, as it plays catch up with Uber  —  Lyft Inc. is starting to offer Waymo robotaxi rides in Nashville, marking the second US city where it's providing driverless trips …

Suno rolls out v6, a new line of AI models trained in partnership with WMG and BMG, and says it will pay labels and publishers royalties when models are used (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Suno rolls out v6, a new line of AI models trained in partnership with WMG and BMG, and says it will pay labels and publishers royalties when models are used  —  - New model was trained on music from Warner Music Group  — Users won't be able to reference specific artists in prompts

Researchers say they used AI to build a zero-click worm that can hack WeChat accounts and spread across iOS and Android; Tencent says it fixed the vulnerability (Dustin Volz/New York Times)

Dustin Volz / New York Times:
Researchers say they used AI to build a zero-click worm that can hack WeChat accounts and spread across iOS and Android; Tencent says it fixed the vulnerability  —  The attack, discovered by A.I. researchers, could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.

DeepSeek says it is seeking ~150 senior engineers in an "unprecedented" hiring spree to overhaul its backend systems, strained by high user demand and AI agents (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)

Minxiao Chang / South China Morning Post:
DeepSeek says it is seeking ~150 senior engineers in an “unprecedented” hiring spree to overhaul its backend systems, strained by high user demand and AI agents  —  The company cited rapid surge in user demand for AI and increase in complexity of its computing systems

A look at the 2019 US criminal case against Huawei, with an upcoming trial over racketeering charges, including sanctions evasion and corporate espionage (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
A look at the 2019 US criminal case against Huawei, with an upcoming trial over racketeering charges, including sanctions evasion and corporate espionage  —  Five years after finance chief Meng Wanzhou's release from detention in Canada, the company itself is going on trial

How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims (Cal Newport/New York Times)

Cal Newport / New York Times:
How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims  —  As the tech elite prepares to make billions from the A.I. revolution, the public mood about this technology has taken a dark turn.

OpenAI says it hit its "automated research intern" goal, its researchers now use 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, and top users spend $7,000+/day on tokens (OpenAI)

OpenAI:
OpenAI says it hit its “automated research intern” goal, its researchers now use 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, and top users spend $7,000+/day on tokens  —  For AGI to benefit all of humanity, we believe it must be democratically governed.

Tim Cook's pay package indicates he will remain very active at Apple; sources: Apple's plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Tim Cook's pay package indicates he will remain very active at Apple; sources: Apple's plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave  —  Also: The latest on Apple's big Sept. 9 event.  —  The early signs out of Cupertino are that Tim Cook will still loom large at Apple.