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Autonomy pivots to gas vehicles to keep the dream of car subscriptions alive

Scott Painter, founder of TrueCar, is still trying to build a business around vehicle subscriptions, where you can cancel at any time.

Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine

Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.

Amazon Prime Video’s new AI tech matches lips to dubbed audio

Maxton Hall. | Image: Prime Video Amazon's Prime Video is launching a new AI-powered feature that lines up an actor's mouth with "human-dubbed" audio. The feature is only available with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall for now, but Prime Video plans to expand it to "additional titles" in the future. In its announcement, Prime Video says it uses a combination of AI and visual effects technologies to make lip movements match up with translated speech. Meta and YouTube recently launched an AI-powered auto-dubbing feature for creators, while allowing them to turn on a "lip sync" option to make it look like creators are actually speaking in a user's preferred lan … Read the full story at The Verge.

The Verge·Sep 9, 2026

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How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy

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Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI ‘could kill all humans’

A senior Anthropic safety researcher has said there is more than a 10 percent chance artificial intelligence "could kill all humans" by the end of the decade, just hours after a colleague resigned over fears the AI lab and its rivals are carelessly racing to build "superhuman systems" they cannot control. In a post on X announcing his departure, Jacob Coxon, a researcher who has trained AI systems at Anthropic, said he had quit the company over its lax approach to safety. Coxon, who previously trained systems for OpenAI, accused the two AI companies of "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," even … Read the full story at The Verge.

The Verge·Sep 9, 2026

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How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

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Google DeepMind alumni are building tools to accelerate fusion power for the grid

Fusionality is developing control systems and simulation environments to help fusion power startups move faster.

Apple’s foldable ‘iPhone Duo’ will reportedly start at $2,000

With only a few hours left until the first iPhone launch event since John Ternus took over as the CEO of Apple, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman says the name of the company's long-rumored folding phone is the iPhone Duo. The midnight report suggests it will have a price starting at $2,000 for a model with 256GB of storage, shipping starting as soon as October in two colors: white and dark blue. So far, the rumored foldable has been mostly referred to as the iPhone Ultra, while the Duo name would raise a title that Google used for one of its many ill-fated attempts at messaging and chat, and that Microsoft already applied to its own foldable … Read the full story at The Verge.

The Verge·Sep 9, 2026

CloudNC raises $20M to automate manufacturing’s most pressing bottlenecks

UK-based manufacturing software startup CloudNC announced Wednesday a $20 million B extension round, bringing its lifetime total raised amount to $128 million.