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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will not go public in 2026, citing safety concerns over artificial intelligence. Altman stated the company does not feel pressure to go public and has a lot of work to do on safety and alignment.

OpenAI used tens of thousands of agents to solve the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, a Millennium Prize Problem with a $1 million reward. The announcement was overshadowed by a credit dispute with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster, who claims OpenAI used his work and offered to remove his collaborator Levent Alpöge from credit.

South Korea has expanded its espionage law to include the theft of semiconductor technology secrets. The legal change strengthens protections for the nation's critical chip industry against industrial espionage.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay calling for a global slowdown in AI development. He proposed third-party safety assessments and coordinated international standards, citing the risk of AI capabilities outpacing control. Amodei referenced the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident as an example of misaligned AI swarms.

Tesla will reveal its next-generation Roadster on October 1 at 8:30 p.m. Eastern in Waco, Texas, with invitations sent to reservation holders requiring RSVPs by September 16. The event is expected to center on the SpaceX thruster package, internally code named A71, which Musk says could hit 60 mph in about 1.1 seconds.

Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are available for pre-order ahead of the September 18 launch. Shipping estimates for some iPhone 18 Pro Max configurations have slipped to October, while the 2TB models remain available for day-one delivery.

Fixing Android Auto connection issues may require updating the car's infotainment firmware, not just the phone. Google advises checking for updates on the manufacturer's website, and automakers like Hyundai and Chevrolet list vehicle software updates as a primary troubleshooting step.

Tesla is reclaiming the United States electric vehicle market as legacy automakers pull back from their EV plans. The shift leaves Tesla with a larger share of American EV sales while traditional carmakers scale down their electric lineups.

AI infrastructure startup d-Matrix will integrate NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion interconnect into its upcoming Raptor accelerators. The deal lets d-Matrix scale to 144 Raptor XPUs per rack using NVIDIA's MGX reference designs, Vera CPUs, and BlueField DPUs. Each Raptor card features 32 GB of 3D-stacked DRAM with 100 TB/s of memory bandwidth.

A German military start-up is seeking help from carmakers to re-arm Europe. The company aims to leverage automotive manufacturing expertise and supply chains for defense production.